Lt. General Carl Spaatz and Major General James Doolittle of the United States Twelfth Air Force, Colonel Willis, as well as other American and French officers attend ceremonies at the presentation of Curtiss P-4O Warhawk planes by U.S. to French Major-General Bergeret and the French Lafayette Escadrille in Morocco during World War II. American troops parade with the American flag. An officer addresses the troops. Officers with the American flag. Officers salute the French and American flags. P-40 Warhawks in the air. Three officers walking. French Moroccan horsemen pass by. Major General Doolittle, Lieutenant General Spaatz, and French Major-General Bergeret talk to each other and to other American and French officers.
Hills covered with olive trees in Morocco. Olive fruits on the trees. A road flanked by olive trees on either side. Horse cart on the road. View of the hills through the trees.
Refueling of U.S. Air Force B-47 Stratojet aircraft after it lands at Sidi Slimane Air Base in Morocco. A rain covered parking ramp. A B-47 taxis in a heavy rain fall. Across an airfield men stand around in rain awaiting the arrival of the B-47. An airman directs the B-47 into a parking area. The aircraft being directed into the refueling station . An airman in the foreground give hand signals. Ground crewmen activity during the refueling and maintenance operations performed upon the aircraft when they land. A ground crew chief opens a door and attempts to lower a ladder, which is out of reach. A B-47 parked on taxi or maintenance strip. Heavy rains in the area. Activity around the aircraft as they are maintained after flight. A B-47 taxis into the refueling station. An airman attaches a refueling hoist to the aircraft. A flight line director uses a radio communications system during the maintenance operations. The flight line operator standing outside the aircraft talks to a person inside over a radio phone. A B-47 taxis into the maintenance area. Already stationary B-47s being maintained along the sector of the strip.
A guide shows farms and gardens to people in Morocco. He points towards areas of the farm using a wooden stick. hills in the background. A mixture of local and Western people watch and listen. The guide walks with the visitors through a garden.
Farm activities in Morocco. Women and girls, some on ladders, pick citrus fruits from trees in an orchard. The fruit is transferred to wooden crates. Women and girls carry baskets, filled with fruit, on their heads. Women, carrying babies on their backs, pick fruit
Mohamed (Muhammad) Ben Youssef (Mohamed V), Sultan of Morocco, walks through a garden with friends. A gardener, using a watering can, pauses to bow, as the Sultan walks past. The Sultan escorts his party past a pool of water associated with a structure being built on the grounds. He converses with a construction worker. Together, they climb partially completed steps of the building and examine the work. Later, the sultan and his son, Moulay Hassan, place small pieces of tile in a complicated mosaic, part of the structure.
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