President of France Charles De Gaulle visits Algeria. President Gaulle and other dignitaries visit Algeria to gather support for a referendum. President interacts with the Muslim masses and the French allied. The French settlers,opposer of Gaulle's mission spread riots and violence. Smoke and fire on the streets. French settlers and the Army troops exchange fires. French settlers exchange Molotov cocktails and tear gas bombs. Army troops with tanks and artillery.
A documentary depicts Algeria soon after its independence. A coast along the Mediterranean Sea. The city of Oran. Houses in the city. A lion sculpture in the foreground. Architecture and sculptures of the city. Algerian flags flutter in windows. A bus drives past. The mountains of the Grand Kabili. Rugged hilly terrain in the east of Algeria. A flock of sheep. Two shepherds sit on a hill. Fruits growing on trees. A water body. An electricity tower. The port city of Annaba. A man makes a fishing net. A ship at a port. Mining equipment in operation to mine out ores. A heap of an ore. The Atlas Mountain range. The city of Constantine. Traffic on the streets. A memorial reads 'Place Des Martyrs'. The Algerian flag atop it. Wheat producing area in the south. Men work with farming machines. A man carries a load of hay.
Activities of the Seabees in Scotland in 1941 and in Algeria in 1943, during World War II. News headlines in 1943 read : ' Italy is out of war' and '17 more Italian towns taken'. An animated map. The Clyde valley in Scotland showing a base built by the U.S. Navy Seabees, in 1941. Numerous quonset huts and vehicles are seen. View of the River Clyde, where 2400 feet of oceangoing dock are being assembled. A ship anchored at a harbor displaying U.S. flag. Allied troops board a landing ship with their belongings. An animated map tracing travel of Allied invasion forces from Scotland to Oran, Algeria, where Seabees are seen testing a floating causway that would be used for invasion of Sicily. Scuttled axis ships and other obstacles and damage that Seabees must repair in occupied ports. Allied ships and troops proceeding for invasion of Sicily. Allied warships bombarding Sicilian coast.
Scene of the city of Oran in Algeria in World War II. View of a church in Oran, Algeria. Scene of General Nogues and an American General. French mounted troops. General Nogues and the American General passing in front of cavalry. General Nogues and the American general placing wreath on graves. General Nogues and the American saluting. Rows of French and American graves.
French leader Charles de Gaulle visits Algeria during riots and crises. Frenchmen fight Frenchmen during Algiers crises in Algeria, Africa. French Army tanks and armored vehicle in the streets to control the rioters. Riots on streets of Algiers. French leader Charles de Gaulle arrives and meets a large crowd of French people in Algiers.
Lieutenant General Mark Clark of U.S. Army, British General Kenneth Anderson, British Admiral Andrew Cunningham, and French Admiral Jean Darlan review United States troops at Algiers in Algeria. U.S. troops salute passingt the high ranking officers. Robert Murphy, United States Minister to North Africa, conversing with U.S. soldiers. U.S. troops aboard a Landing Craft Tank (LCT). Guns mounted on the LCT. Buoy in the harbor and city of Algiers in the background. Distant vessels stand in the harbor. U.S. soldiers aboard an LCT. Black belts (light preservers) around soldiers' waists . Distant convoy of Allied ships escorted by British destroyers head to Bone, Algeria. A view of harbor at Bone. U.S. General Lee Tanks (M3) are unloaded from LCT at the shore. Men unload cargo of ammunition from a Britsh supply ship. Men handle ammunition crates at a supply depot.