Presidential Palace in Tunis,Tunisia. Tunisian guards and captain stand on Presidential Palace steps. Guards hold swords. Driver sits behind wheel of Lincoln. Tunisian and American flags fly from lamppost. View of Presidential Palace. Motorcycle police at ease in the foreground. Group of policemen stand next to cycles off side of road leading to front of palace.
Civilians gathered to greet U.S. President Eisenhower in Tunis, Tunisia. A motorcade escorts United States President Dwight D Eisenhower from the Presidential Palace to El Aouina Airport. A banner across the street reads 'Long Live Eisenhower'. A large crowd of civilians lined on both sides of the street. The crowd waves from the sidewalk. The motorcade passes under an archway on the street. Banners across the street reads 'Welcome To Tunisian Soil'.
U.S. President Eisenhower addresses a gathering at El Aouina Airport in Tunis, Tunisia. United States President Dwight D Eisenhower speaks into the microphone. The crowd applauds. A large crowd of civilians and military personnel in the background. Officials stand in the foreground. The crowd waves American and Tunisian flags. Buildings in the background. Crowds gathered outside buildings. American flags flutter in wind on top of buildings. People on building roofs. President Eisenhower and Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba on speakers' stand. A large crowd in the background. President Eisenhower addresses the crowd. The crowd applauds as the President completes his speech. The Presidents walk down the steps. Tunisian girls greet and present bouquet to President Eisenhower. The President shakes hand with the girls. The official sedan parked near the speakers' stand. The Presidents step into the car. A large crowd in the background. President Eisenhower removes his hat and waves to the crowd. The President prepares to leave the area.
U.S. soldiers buy chicken from Arab sellers in Tunisia, North Africa during World War II. Troops cut chicken and prepare its stew for dinner. (November 1942-December 1942).
View of a church damaged by bombing and shelling, in the town of Oued Zarga in Tunisia, North Africa, during World War 2. Bombed interiors of the Oued Zarga Church. A broken glass painting and a statue of Jesus Christ inside the church. (November 1942-December 1942).
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, presumably an Army flight nurse, tend to the wounded aboard the medical evacuation flight. 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 are seen taking off from an airfield in Gibraltar. 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.