Native French horsemen in the palace of Sultan Mohammad V in Rabat, Morocco. The uniformed horsemen with flags, lined up in the courtyard on either side. A Royal Moroccan Guard on a horse. North African terrain. Green grassy hills and fields. Native children playing near straw huts.
Allied officers at a retreat ceremony in Casablanca, Morocco. United States Army General Mark Clark, American, British, French Army and Navy officers attend the ceremony. Soldiers give a gun salute. Allied officers salute during the ceremony. Officers move along as they talk to each other. American General Dwight D Eisenhower and other officers exit a building and leave in cars. (World War II period).
Troop transport ships arrive at Port Lyautey Harbor. Clouds in sky. Thousands of soldiers aboard a troop transport. (World War II period).
View of Fez, Morocco, from hilltop. A local man sitting on top of the hill. Two men with a cart walking along a road. A horse-drawn cart with collapsable roof cover, moves along a road past a sign reading, "Route 15 from Fez to Taza" (in French). It notes distances to various places,starting with 124 KM to Taza, and ending with Fort Saint at 2772 Km. A truck is parked behind the sign and people stand looking at ancient Medina walls in distance. Farm workers are seen in nearby fields. Men sitting at tables in outdoor cafe. Empty water and soft drink bottles on table. A large open air market with various agricultural products being displayed on backs of animals, and in large sacks. Purfeyers of drinks sit at edge of the marketplace. Mosque in background. View of a mosque, through trees in a garden. Animals watering at a stream. Palm trees swaying in the breeze.
French colonial authorities install Mohammed Ben Aarafa as the new sultan of Morocco (a French protectorate). Moroccan policemen frisk arrested supporters for the growing Moroccan independence movement. Policemen take away an arrested Moroccan man. Moroccan Berber tribesmen converge together. Honor guards participate during the ceremony placing Ben Aarafa on the Alouite Throne. Moroccans salute to the new sultan Mohammad Ben Aarafa. General Augustin Guillaume, the French resident-general of Morocco, presents the felicitations of his government to the new sultan in the Dar al-Makhzen palace in Rabat, 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.
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