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Allied Forces Build up in Algeria to prepare for Spring offensive against German forces in Tunisia during World War II

At start of film, Allied forces are digging in after retreating from counterattacks by German forces in Tunis, during World War 2.. Rains create mud everywhere. A Lockheed P-38 fighter plane parked in foreground. Ground crews use shovels to free nose wheel of a B-24 Liberator bomber with engines running. A truck tows a C-47 transport plane from mud. Army trucks travel over road inundated by running streams. Soldiers standing in a jeep submerged in water. M2 tanks stuck in mud. Airmen huddled around an outdoor fire. P-38 fighter aircraft parked in the background. Soldiers eating around an outdoor fire. Animated map shows Allied battle lines stabilized in Algerian mountains, while German forces occupy the plains in Tunisia. German artillery batteries firing. British troops sheltering in damaged building. Allied wounded being transported atop, as well as inside a field ambulance. Interior of a transport plane configured for evacuation of wounded on litters. U.S. airmen including a woman in leather flying jacket tend to the wounded. Wounded being transferred from an airplane to an ambulance. British patrols moving through the night. Heavy artillery firing. British soldiers silhouetted at dawn. They return carrying a wounded comrade on a litter. The British soldiers ("Tommies.") trying to clean mud from themselves and their weapons before heading out on patrols again at dusk. Allied soldiers moving on mules in a long line to obtain needed food and supplies. More views of the interminable mud. A British Hawker Hunter fighter plane taking off. A formation of Hawker Hurricanes peeling off to engage German aircraft. Closeup of one rolling over. A German Heinkel 111 bomber being attacked and trailing smoke. Pilot pressing gun firing button in cockpit and a German Dornier Do 17 bomber hit as British fighter plane passes it in cloud of black smoke. The German plane diving to crash in a fireball on the ground. U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers taking off and flying in formation. Formation of American B-17 bombers in flight. The American planes dropping bombs on Italy, Sardinia, and Sicily. Gunners in the bombers firing machine guns at attacking German fighter planes as their bombs keep dropping. Back on land in Algeria, mud still halted any Allied advance. Animated map showing both Allied and German forces building up on their respective sides of the front. Supply lines illustrated all the way back to factories in the United States and Britain. Allied war plants making bombers and munitions. Allied Soldiers assembling Army vehicles at a port. Lockheed lightning fighters being rolled out of a factory. Sign reading "Railroad Equipment Assembly Plant No. 1." Complete trains from locomotives to freight cars being completely assembled, loaded with freight and sent on their way. A formation of P-38 aircraft equipped with long range fuel tanks being ferried in flight from Brazil. It is led by a B-17 flying fortress bomber providing navigation. British Spitfire and Hawker Hunter airplanes heading to the front an airfield in Gibralter. A caterpillar tractor moving earth for a new road at the front. Trucks dropping materials for the road bed as soldiers with shovels smooth them on the surface. Soldiers installing Mardsen Matting pierced steel planking for an airfield surface as C-47 transport planes operate on the field. Crates of food supplies being unloaded at a port. War materiel stored in a large yard at a port.

Date: 1942, November
Duration: 7 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033509
Resident-General of French Morocco , Lieutenant General Pierre Boyer de Latour visits Berber tribes in mountains of Morocco

French Resident-General of Morocco, Lieutenant General Pierre Boyer de Latour, in exercise of diplomacy, visits Berber Tribes in middle atlas region of Morocco ( el mars boulmane ). He arrives in a 1953 Oldsmobile convertible automobile, driving up a rugged dirt road. The General greets several tribal leaders and converses with them. The tribal leaders escort General de Latour to a large tent, where he sits and converses with the most senior leaders. They talk and eat inside the tent. Crowds of tribesmen observe from around the tent, at some distance, outside. Mountains seen in the background. Tribesmen play musical instruments. Women in decorative costume dance.

Date: 1955
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055983
French Officers issue rifles and bayonets to Berber Tribesmen (goumiers) in Morocco

A building in Morocco, bearing a French military logo and seal. Berber tribesmen are assembled in formation, with a flag. French millitary officers march a road to the assembly place. A contingent of French Foreign Legion in formation. The ranking French Officer shakes hands with tribal leaders and then begins issuing rifles and bayonets to the tribal leaders. Other French officers continue issuing arms to the ramainder of the assembled tribesmen (goumiers). A Legionnaire looks from high vantage point, over town spread out below.

Date: 1954
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055987
French Foreign legionnaires in mobile operations against rebels in Rif mountains of Morocco

French Legionnaires, headquartered in Taza, mount mobile operations in the Rif mountains of Morocco. Opening scene shows mountainous region in area of Ajdir, near Al Hoceima, Morocco. Next, explosions and white smoke are seen in distance as French motorized forces move toward the camera. Closeup of Hotchkiss M201 Jeep 4 x 4 with sandbagged radiator and carrying a gunner in the rear, moving past some assembled armor. A sign reading, “Col du Nador, Altitude 1430 m.” Closeup of a French M8 Greyhound Armored car. French soldiers ducking for cover as they scramble near a Hotchkiss M201 jeep and take up positions overlooking a valley. Soldiers manning a truck-mounted 50cal machine gun. Similar guns silhouetted against the sky and more soldiers with rifles in position on a ridge of ground. A battery of 105mm howitzers being fired. Several silhouetted against the lighter sky. More views of the gun batteries. Closeup of gunners loading howitzer and expended shells on the ground. Soldiers checking area around a bridge. Troops collecting stones to repair a hole at the bridge approach. Several soldiers carry a wounded comrade back to a place where he receives first aid care. A soldier points to a French- operated Di Haviland Vampire FB.5 aircraft overhead. Another aircraft (A North American T-6) is also seen flying over the scene. Artillery battery commander using special telescope. French infantry moving forward. Soldiers at a field communications center. Soldiers firing small arms from a hillside.

Date: 1955
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055990
Press Conference in Morocco. Official reads telegram announcing end of Sidi Muhammad ibn Youssef's exile

A Moroccan official holds a press conference, at a palace in Morocco. The entrance of a building. The official steps from a car. He climbs up the stairs. Cars parked in the background. Other officials greet him at the entrance of the palace. They enter the building. View of the interior of the building. The oficial addresses the press conference. He reads from a printed telegram message headed with the handwritten name of Sidi Muhammad ibn Youssef and announcing the end of his exile. The press members make notes.

Date: 1955, October
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056040
Prime Minister Pierre Mendes France visits Tunisia and meets with Habib Bourguiba

Prime Minister Pierre Mendes France in Tunisia. He visits with Habib Bourguiba.

Date: 1954
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056054