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Allied troops mobilize and advance in Algiers and Tunisia.

Allied Armies mobilize in Algiers and Tunisia. Algiers: An all Greek battalion of volunteers marching. Troops hold flags. Troops assemble at the docks of Algiers. French Foreign Legion troops and the British 8th Army troops near a ship. Soldiers share cigarettes. French colonial troops, Canadian troops and other Allied troops climb aboard a ship. Military supplies, equipment and vehicles at the docks. Men work at an assembly line, while others repair vehicles. Trucks transfer material. Tunisia: Allied troops advance over the plains. Troops, tanks and artillery move ahead. Troops in jeeps and on motorbikes on muddy roads. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020884
Allied leaders at the Casablanca Conference in Morocco during World War II. Allied forces battle Germans in Algeria and Tunisia

Film begins showing the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, North Africa. Inside, Allied generals meet to plan further steps in World War 2, against the Axis powers. Charles de Gaulle and French General Henri Giraud are seen walking together at an airport. Closeup of the two. View of Allied General staff members around a table. U.S. principals include Army Chief of Staff, General George Marshall and Air Force Chief, Lieutenant General Henry H. Arnold. Views of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of Allied forces, His deputy for land forces, British Field Marshal Harold Alexander, his deputy for sea forces, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham, and his deputy for air operations, British air marshal, Arthur William Tedder (1st Baron Tedder) Outdoors. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill are seen seated, conversing. Churchill's airplane, named Commando, a very long range Consolidated Liberator II aircraft adapted for passenger transport is seen ready to take him to Tripoli to greet the victorious British 8th Army. Churchill greeting British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery at Tripoli. Animated map shows battle lines and disposition of Allied forces along the Algiers-Tunisian front. View of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel inspecting defenses at the Mareth line in Tunisia. Fifteen divisions of German, and 7 divisions of Italian troops entering the front lines. German Panzer IV aus d tanks moving on a dirt road. German infantry marching along a road. Seasoned German troops in camouflaged vehicles. Formation of German Focke Wulf 189 aircraft and view of one dropping bombs. General Rommel pointing to something at the front. Animated map showing the battlefront. (Narrator says German orders were to hold Tunisia at all costs.) View of Rommel, eating a sandwich as he studies document in a defensive position behind the Mareth line. German soldier using periscopic binoculars to view the front. German forces initiating an attack westward driving Allied forces back. Map show German forces advancing beyond the Kasserine pass. Rommel in a staff car, as he learns that the Allied forces have counter-attacked and are driving his forces back to the original battle lines. American infantry marching Eastward to reoccupy Kasserine Pass and beyond, past destroyed German tanks. Rommel's forces make an attack Southward toward the British 8th Army positions. View of new Tiger tank employed by the Germans. A British soldier removes the cover from their new 17 pounder anti-tank gun. View of burning Tiger tanks destroyed by the new British guns. (Narrator says 52 were left burning hulks.)

Date: 1943, January
Duration: 4 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033511
Allied soldiers in North Africa celebrate Christmas in 1942 and assemble for Roosevelt visit in January 1943

Allied Forces in North Africa during Christmas, 1942, during World War 2. Map of Tunisia. Ancient Roman ruins, including the Amphitheater of El Jem. A native plows a field. Children ride mules. Christian Cathedrals in various places. Interiors of a cathedral. At various places Allied soldiers hold Christmas Services outdoors. Camel Corps troops astride their camels. A Christmas service in front of a Curtiss P-40 aircraft displaying an American flag on its right wing and a Christian flag on its left. Scenes of children celebrating Christmas in different parts of the world, including boys throwing snowballs at each other outside a school building in the United States (Lettering above doorway of school reads "Durham Public School", possibly in Durham, NC. Graves of dead soldiers. Religious services held for the allied soldiers. British General Montgomery attends a religious service. Bells ring in churches across the world Sign reads 'A Happy Christmas'. Soldiers carry sacks. Letters brought for soldiers on a jeep. Soldiers run to get their letters. A soldier reads his letter. A soldier wakes up to find a filled stocking hung on his tent. Another soldier opens a parcel. 'Pine Grove USA' and 'Birney Cave Mincoka' written on two signs. Soldiers open parcels. Empty boxes, cups and bottles on a table. Preparation for the Christmas feast. Feathers are plucked from a turkey. Many bottles of rum in a row. Chickens are removed from an airplane. Soldiers in a chow line. A pudding on a plate is put on the table. A bowl of oranges on a table with some WAC (Womens Army Corps) service members. A sign in the background reads 'A Merry Xmas' Soldiers feed their pets. A puppy is fed. A donkey and a pig are fed. A pet monkey grooms a soldier's head. Candy is thrown to the native children. The Red Cross dispenses milk given by soldiers to native children. Soldiers go sightseeing in Egypt and observe an Egyptian magician. The Great Sphinx of Giza with the Pyramid of Khafre in the background as Allied soldiers fall off a camel they are trying to ride. Native people of Morocco in a city market area. Women pass in veils. British Soldiers play Cricket. American soldiers play baseball. A soldier plays a guitar. Another soldier views a magazine with a young woman centerfold picture. Soldiers polish uniform brass and shine shoes to prepare for assembly. Others take baths in tubs outdoors. With all troops assembled, President Roosevelt visits, riding in a jeep (while in the area for the Casablanca Conference). He is accompanied by Lieutenant General Mark Clark and General George Patton, riding in the back of the jeep. Later the President is seen sitting sideways in the jeep, holding his hat over his heart as he passes troops lined along the roadside. Secret Service agents ride behind carrying machine guns. The generals in his jeep salute as they pass the colors. Next, British Prime Minister Churchill is seen greeted by an honor guard of four British soldiers during his time in Casablanca for the Casablanca Conference. He is seen beside a gate labeled "Villa #3" which was the Villa “Mirador in the complex of Villas beside the Anfa Hotel.

Date: 1942, December
Duration: 7 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033510
General Carl Spaatz decorates British pilots with Distinguished Flying Cross in Kairouan, Tunisia during World War II.

U.S. General Carl Spaatz decorates men in Kairouan, Tunisia during World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces P-8 aircraft fly over an airfield in Kairouan. Platoon of Saphis mounted on camels escort a car. General Carl Spaatz gets off the car. Troops lined up on the field. U.S. flag hoisted at the field. General Spaatz pins up Distinguished Flying Cross medal onto British Wellington pilots. Men lined up as General pins up medals. British soldiers lined up. Saphis mounted on camels. General decorates men with the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059560
U.S. soldiers examining wrecked German and Italian aircraft at El Aouina Airfield in Tunisia during World War II.

Wreckage of an aircraft at El Aouina Airport in Tunisia during World War II. A man holding a piece of plexiglas in his hand. A wrecked 3-motored Italian Camo 6 - Savoia-Marchetti SM 81 Pipistrello aircraft on an airfield at the airport. '601-5' written on the aircraft. A captured German Volkswagen type 82 Kübelwagen drives up beside the wrecked aircraft. A few U.S. officers get out and inspect the aircraft. View of wrecked German and Italian aircraft on the airfield. A USAAF 97th Bomb Group, 340th Bomb Squadron, B-17F 42-5402: B-17F-50-BO Flying Fortress taking off from the airfield. Abbreviated tail number '25402' seen on tail. Several wrecked aircraft on the airfield. Another B-17 aircraft takes off, displaying a large shield image on its tail This is followed by a U.S. Army Air Force B-25 Mitchell taking off. The wreckage of aircraft spread on the airfield. A few U.S. soldiers walking into a deep bomb crater and inspect the nacelle and the motor of the aircraft. Two soldiers beside another wrecked Italian Camo 6 - Savoia-Marchetti SM 81 Pipistrello aircraft. The aircraft is painted in camouflage paint and bears the number 605-7. One of the soldiers looking into the fuselage of the aircraft. A wrecked German aircraft on the airfield. The aircraft damaged completely. View of parts of the wrecked aircraft.

Date: 1943, June 8
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066347
Allied troops during Victory Day parade in Tunis, Tunisia during World War II.

Victory Day parade in Tunis, Tunisia during World War II. Allied troops during the parade. Armored vehicles moving on a road during the parade. British soldiers march past a reviewing stand. People gathered on the sides of the road. Flags on the side of the road. Armored tanks and trucks in the parade. Troops on tanks moving in the parade. People standing on the sides of the road watch the parade. U.S. Army General Dwight D Eisenhower and a French General seated in an open car moving in the parade. British, French and American flags fluttering in the wind.

Date: 1943, June 8
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066348