A United States flag insignia on a soldier's uniform sleeve. A Moroccan boy stands beside the La Tour Hassan minaret at the unfinished Sultan Yaqub al-Mansur Mosque (Bd Mohamed Lyazidi, Rabat, Morocco) in Rabat, Morocco. The pillars among the ruins of the mosque. Two foreigners with a child walk among the pillars. The minaret in the background. A native emerges from the minaret. (World War II period).
United States soldiers pose for a photograph in North Africa. American installation and bivouac area. A half-track at the encampment. Army tents and a covered truck. Christmas presents for American soldiers. A U.S. Army Lt. unwraps a present containing a carton of Chesterfield cigarettes and puts one to his mouth. A soldier crosses a military jeep on his way to dry socks. (World War II period).
Major General James Doolittle and Lt. General Carl Spaatz of the United States Twelfth Air Force, Colonel Willis, as well as French Major-General Bergeret and other American and French officers attend ceremonies at the presentation of Curtiss P-40 Warhawk planes by the U.S. Army Air Forces to the French Lafayette Escadrille in Morocco during World War II. American troops parade before a hangar. Officers stand in front of P-40 planes lined up near the hangar. The band plays in the parade. French Moroccan horsemen. Officers salute the American and French flags. Opening cameraman slate indicates January 9, 1942, but this is an error as the event took place on January 9, 1943.
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.
U.S. Army General Terry Allen and Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.in North Africa. They leave the Army hospital in a military jeep. Red Cross flag flies above the United States flag. American Generals and staff greeted by officers at a hospital. A sign at the hospital entrance reads 'INFIRMERIE-HOSPITAL'. A military ambulance at the hospital entrance.
Allied officers at a retreat ceremony in Casablanca, Morocco. United States Army Lieutenant General Mark Clark walking toward flag ceremony area, with Vichy-French aligned Admiral Darlan following close behind. Timeframe is mid November during ceremonies surrounding the signing of the Darlan Agreement, also called the Clark-Darlan Accords. Other high ranking Allied officers are seen at the event, including British Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, and other American, British, French Army and Navy officers attend the ceremony. Soldiers give a gun salute. Allied officers salute during the ceremony. Officers seen exiting the ceremony area, walking as they talk to each other. Scene changes to new location and shows dark scenes of vegetation and then very dark scenes of Generals entering an unidentified building. The first appears to be Lt. General Mark Clark followed immediately by Lieutenant General Dwight Eisenhower. Both salute. British officers enter the building after them. Final scene in good light shows Lt. General Mark Clark exiting building followed by Lt. General Eisenhower, and then Admiral Cunningham. Clark and Eisenhower salute as they exit and walk by nearby parked cars.
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