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German air raids on an Allied airport at Souk El Arba in Algeria.

German air raids on an Allied airport at Souk El Arba in Algeria during World War 2. German dive bombers (Junkers) drop bombs on key targets. American soldiers retaliate. Soldiers put the casualties in armored U.S. ambulances. U.S. P-38s dogfight with German Junkers. U.S. C-47 transport planes loaded with supplies and fuel arrives to replenish Allied forces. (November 1942-December 1942).

Date: 1942
Duration: 5 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029002
Captured Italian Paratroopers in North Africa.

Captured Italian parachute troops in North Africa during World War 2. One of the Italian soldiers salutes and smiles, then does a somersault in jest. British or Commonwealth guard troops can be seen in background. Shows closeup of the Italian Paratroop insignia on one of the Italian soldier's uniform. (November 1942-December 1942).

Date: 1942
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029003
Allied armored vehicles prepare to deploy at Tebourba in Tunisia, North Africa, in World War 2.

Heavy rainfall over the Tebourba valley in Tunisia,North Africa. German Panzer tank column can be seen in the valley. Map shows a war plan of the Allied forces. German Panzer division advances from Tunis while Allied forces advance from Nedtez El Bab. Allied tanks such as M3 Stuart, US half tracks, British scout cars and other armored vehicles advance to Tebourba. U.S. P-38s and Spitfires provide air support to the Allied convoy. Scout cars and M3 half tracks provide ground reconnaissance.(November 1942-December 1942)

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029005
British and American forces exchange fire with the Germans near Tebourba in Tunisia,North Africa.

British artillery exchange fire with enemy German forces at the road connecting Medjez-El-Bab and Tebourba in Tunisia, North Africa during World War 2. U.S. Army soldiers take cover behind trees and bushes while tanks advance forward. A British ammunition truck is hit and catches fire. German Mark IV tanks mounted with 88mm anti-tank guns can be seen exchanging fires with the Allied Forces. Allied artillery hits the Mark IVs and enemy's 88mm gun positions. Captured German soldiers taken away as prisoners of war (POW). U.S. Army medic soldiers tend to the wounded. (November 1942-December 1942).

Date: 1942
Duration: 5 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029006
Captured German and Italian soldiers in Tunisia, North Africa, in World War 2

German prisoners of war (POW) taken away at gun-point by the Allied soldiers. Scenes of captured Italian parachute troops (members of Afrika Korps) and German POWs. Dead German soldiers along a roadside are examined by Allied British and American Army forces. (November 1942-December 1942).

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029007
Film about the role of American hydroelectric power in World War II

Film opens with montage of rapid images illustrating the outbreak of World War 2 in Europe. Appeals from the Allied powers are described. Shown is a field full of American Martin B-26 bombers ready for shipment abroad. View of men working in a construction site. Towers holding high tension electric supply lines are seen. Products needing electric power for production, such as aluminum and magnesium are shown as ingots in production facilities. View of the Columbia River waters surging along its course. Views of the Bonneville Dam and power plant, and the Grand Coulee Dam. Giant electric generators operating in the hydroelectric plants. Technicians in power plant control rooms, and views of transmission lines and switch yards outside a power plant. A ship under construction at a wartime shipyard. Workers using electric arc welders during ship construction. View of the SS Mormacwren launched 22 May 1942 at the Consolidated Steel Corporation's Wilmington, California yard. Launch on May 22, 1942, of the ship, Irving S. Olds, a Bulk Freighter built by the American Ship Building Co., Lorain, Ohio. (Her launch was coordinated with those of numerous other ocean cargo vessels in yards around the United States, to bolster the national morale, when German submarines were sinking many ships in the Atlantic.) Next, a ladle of molten aluminum, to be used in aircraft manufacture, is seen pouring its contents into ingot molds. Workers dislodge the ingots after cooling. Inside an aircraft plant, men assemble aircraft parts from aluminum. A partially completed medium bomber is towed outside the plant. View of Grand Coulee Dam and of many electrical distribution facilities. Herds of sheep moving across the Grand Coulee Dam to new pastures.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032614