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Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ibn Youssef and French Officers review military parade. British and U.S. soldiers place wreath at tomb

Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ibn Youssef, and French officers, arrive at a reviewing stand in open cars accompanied by honor guard of Spahi, light cavalry,on horseback. They step from the cars and greet French officers. They walk to stand to review parade. Tanks drive through streets. Spahis,Royal Marines,United States soldiers,Free French soldiers and sailors march past in parade. Soldiers stand at a small memorial, where wreaths lay by a draped French tricolor flag containing symbols of various military units and dates. British and American soldiers place wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown. The British and American contingents salute, do about face, and march back from the memorial.. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072995
French, British and American sailors assemble in formations in Morocco, during World War II

Allied sailors, French, British and American, march in formation and assemble at attention in Morocco, during World War 2. A group of French sailors shouldering arms, marches along a waterfront path and stands at attention in a paved area. They are joined by a group of British sailors, also shouldering arms. A U.S. contingent of sailors marches to a nearby location. The entire activity is at a waterfront area in Morocco. Brief glimpse of a destroyer off the coast.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065272
British 8th Army and American forces enter Tripoli in Libya during World War II.

Allied armies advance in Tunisia during World War II. American and British outposts in Tunisia. Nazi and Allied aircraft engaged in a dog fight while in flight. A German aircraft is shot down and it falls. A German aircraft burns on a field. American soldiers fire along the Atlas Mountains. British and American tank destroyers in action as explosions occur. German prisoners march. British 8th Army enters Tripoli in Libya. General Bernard Montgomery of England talks to an Italian Governor and officers about the Axis surrender. British flags hoisted in the city. Montgomery rides past a cheering crowd in a car. Tanks roll on streets.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066017
A man explains layout and crops to visitors at a large farm in Morocco

A guide shows farms and gardens to people in Morocco. He points towards areas of the farm using a wooden stick. hills in the background. A mixture of local and Western people watch and listen. The guide walks with the visitors through a garden.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067421
Women and girls pick fruit in an orchard in Morocco.

Farm activities in Morocco. Women and girls, some on ladders, pick citrus fruits from trees in an orchard. The fruit is transferred to wooden crates. Women and girls carry baskets, filled with fruit, on their heads. Women, carrying babies on their backs, pick fruit

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067422
Contrast between ancient ways of plowing with horses and modern ways using tractors, in Morocco

Group of workers walk beside a farmer plowing a field with a disc cultivator pulled by a D6 Caterpillar diesel tractor. The manual workers appear to be discarding clumps of grass or other undesired material. In contrast, two other farmers are seen plowing nearby using primitive wooden plows pulled by horses. One of them stops to repair his wooden plow, striking it with a stone to tighten it.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067423