Allied French soldiers run out of camouflaged bunkers and buildings at the Tunis Port, apparently in response to an air raid warning. French soldiers prepare for defensive action. French soldiers adjust the barrel of an anti-aircraft gun. View of other anti aircraft guns on the shore. Soldiers load shells into anti-aircraft guns. Soldiers approach another anti-aircraft gun, adjust the gun's barrel and prepare to fire. (World War II period).
Allied held POW camp in Tunisia during the North African campaign, around time of capture of Tunis and Axis surrender in North Africa in World War 2. German prisoners of war move about the compound filled with many small tents and tarps for shelter. German prisoners stand beside military trucks. A German soldier wearing a Afrika Korps M41 Cap smokes a cigarette. A group of German soldiers in a loose line in the background.
Scuttled ships at the Tunis Port in Tunisia during World War 2. Charred deck of a bombed ship. Ruins of charred buildings and factories at the port. Hull of a sunken ship. Naval officers in a speed boat. Sailor walks past the rubble of damaged factory. Sign of the Tunis Port Depot. Wrecked ships and cranes in the background. U.S. Navy sailor stands before an iron gate.
German prisoners of war gathered near the U.S. Navy Attack Transport ship, USS Thomas Stone, AT-59, at the port of Algiers in World War 2. (The US Thomas Stone was repurposed, after damage, as a floating barracks or processing vessel, especially for handling German and Italian POWs captured.) The German POWs climb a ramp to board the ship. View of them on the ship's deck. U.S. officer and sailor watch as the prisoners board. View of the wharf where lines of German prisoners are boarding. An African American U.S. Navy cook, in chef's white outfit, gives a small card to one of the boarding prisoners. Various views of German prisoners boarding. Scene shifts to view from a small moving boat as it moves out in the harbor.
United States soldiers and sailors participate in amphibious training exercise, in the Chesapeake Bay, during World War 2. Soldier and Sailors exit a Landing Craft Personnel Large, LCPL, and run across a beach towards some woods. Soldiers crouched aboard a Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel, LCVP, under way. Note many of the soldiers armed with M-1 Garand rifles, have applied condoms to the muzzles of their rifle barrels, to prevent salt water corrosion. The fleet transport USS Elizabeth C. Stanton, AP-69, flagship for amphibious exercises in Chesapeake Bay., at anchor. A Landing Craft Personnel Large, LCPL passes by in the foreground. Soldiers aboard and exiting a beached Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel, LCVP. An LCVP with 'P69-10' painted on its side hits the beach. Soldiers exit near yellow cloth beach signal panel and run across the beach.
United States soldiers during a landing maneuvers exercise in World War 2. Soldiers look on as a 75mm pack Howitzer carriage is lifted from hold of ship by crane. Soldiers put on gear and disembark from the transport ship to a small Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP). Soldiers crouch in the LCVP as it gets underway.
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