P-38s of the USAAF 14th Fighter Group hold short of the runway at Telergma airfield in Algeria, to wait for a dozen others that are landing in succession. The arriving aircraft taxi
Aerial views of U.S. Marine ships in sea at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. Aerial views of Solomon islands. Warship guns firing. Antiaircraft guns firing. Tracers in sky.
Group of U.S. Marine officers discussing a map aboard aboard a transport ship en route to North Africa. Identified officers are Captain E Sadler, Lieutenant Colonel Clark and Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Meyers. Several other field grade officers and a full Colonel are in the group. They move to a more convenient location where they can lay the map out, on a lower deck.
German tank burning on the roadside in France. Sign reads "Carrouges". American 3rd Armored Division tanks and soldiers enter town of Carrouges. Spanish civilians lined up against a wall with hands on top of their heads. They were workers in German labor battalions. Lined up on another wall are captured prisoner German soldiers, including some young boy soldier POW. French medic treating captured, wounded German soldier. French 2nd Armored Division tanks entering the town of Sees, France. Cross of Loraine on tank.
French tank crew of the Free French Forces, leave their M4A2 Sherman tank to inspect another that has been knocked out. Both tanks display the logo of French 2nd Armored Division (2e Division Blindée, 2e DB), commanded by General Philippe Leclerc. The destroyed one belongs to the 501ème Régiment de Chars de Combat (501st RCC 3eC) and was knocked out, probably by an 88mm anti-tank shell, on August 13, 1944 in Ecouves forest. Closeups of huge holes penetrating the turret of the tank. The other tank's crew members begin recovering bodies of dead from the stricken tank, which has the name "l'Ourcq" stenciled on its side. They remove the body of one dead soldier and place it on a blanket. They also remove the headless body of another from the tank. (Note: Reportedly, the destroyed tank was number 420583.)
Lieutenant General George S. Patton emerges from a tent, with Major General Lindsey M. Sylvester, Commander of the 7th Armored Division. They converse, as Patton gets into his jeep. General Sylvester salutes as General Patton drives away in his jeep which displays a three-star pennant. A heavy machine gun is mounted in the jeep.
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