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British Troops relax in Egypt after being evacuated from previously Allied-held territory in North Africa.

War-weary troops evacuated from former Allied territory arrive in Egypt during World War 2. The soldiers relax and smile. British Royal Navy warships underway to attack Italian installations in Libya. An airplane is launched from a British aircraft carrier. Gun crews bring shells on deck for heavy naval guns. A British sailor writes on one: "This'll make you whistle." Scenes of heavy naval bombardment of Italian military installations and the port at Tripoli, Libya. Daylight scenes reveal many sunken ships and destroyed Italian L11-39 tanks and military equipment.

Location: Egypt
Date: 1941, June
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043884
Jewish families banished from Brunn, Czechoslovakia, by Nazis. Italian colonists depart depart Naples for Libya

80 Jewish families banished by the Nazis in Brunn, Czechoslovakia, flee Nazi German persecution. Jewish people at No Man's Land near the border. Jewish woman wipes tears. Naples, Italy: Thousands of colonists, comprising 1800 families, are brought from farms to colonize the Italian possession of Libya in North Africa. They board the steamship, SS Piemonte,for voyage to Libya. Family groups are seen moving across the pier and boarding the ship. Passengers wave from the ship and well-wishers wave from the shore as the ship leaves the pier. View of the ship's captain on the bridge. A warship in the harbor fires a gun in salute. Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, in military uniform, stands on the pier and bids the colonists farewell. Several ships bearing colonists are seen underway, leaving Naples.

Location: Brunn Czechoslovakia
Date: 1938, November 14
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043741
Amphibious forces carried by U.S. Coast Guard, at Guadalcanal and in North Africa during World War II

United States Coast Guard operations in World War 2. Underwater views of ship's anchors being weighed, Convoy of U.S. ships in Pacific Theater, in July, 1942. The Attack Transport, USS Hunter Liggett underway, with crews doing amphibious training. Members of the 1st Marine Division aboard USS Hunter Liggett with Coast Guardsmen. Officers confer aboard vessel. Marines read books on ship. August 7, 1942, U.S. Marines begin amphibious assault against Japanese on Guadalcanal. Naval guns bombard Guadalcanal Island. Marines descend from the USS Hunter Liggett, on nets and enter LCVPs (Higgins boats) operated by Coast Guardsmen, to assault the island. Marines hit the beach from the boats. Marines firing small howitzers and advancing on the island. November 7, 1942, convoy of eight hundred ships en route to North Africa. Warships bombard the shore. An officer observes through binoculars. British and American troops descend on nets into LCVPs from Attack transports: USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13);USS Leonard Wood (APA-12); and USS Samuel Chase (APA-26). Troops hit the beaches of North Africa, under fire.

Location: Guadalcanal Solomon Islands
Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041744
Commander of the 376th Bomb Group Libya, North Africa, briefs air crews for mission against Nazi aircraft production complex, WW2.

U.S. Army Colonel Keith K. Compton, commander of the 376th Bomb Group in Libya, North Africa briefs his Army Air Force aircraft crews for the first Allied bombing mission against the Nazi German ME-109 (Messerschmitt Bf 109) aircraft manufacturing plant south of Vienna at Wiener-Neustadt, Austria, in World War 2. The map that Colonel Compton is using shows the air routes to and from the target. The mission will commence early the next day, on 13 August 1943. An unrelated scene shows U.S. Army and Army Air Force men conversing with an Australian soldier in a summer uniform.

Location: North Africa
Date: 1943, August 12
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060793
German Afrika Korps troops travel to Libya for the North African Campaign (WW2)

German Afrika Korps fly to Libya during the North African Campaign of World War II. An outline of the African continent with word “AFRIKA”. German Afrika Korps soldiers rest outside tents in Southern Greece. They receive mails. A shirtless German soldier hammers a Quadriga cutout on top of an arch into place. Afrika Korps soldiers fall in line and receive food supplies. A German soldier fills his canteen from water fountain. Troops carry supplies and move. Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft are parked on airfield. Afrika Korps soldiers load supplies into transport planes. Soldiers wearing life vests board the plane. Junkers Ju 52 transport plane takes off. German soldiers peer from the window onboard the aircraft. Soldiers cuddle a pet dog mascot they brought to the flight. Division title on uniform sleeve reads “AFRIKA KORPS”. Afrika Korps soldiers rest during the flight. Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft landing in Libya. Junkers Ju 52 transport aircraft cockpit bears the Coat of Arms of Berlin. Pilot in the cockpit. German Afrika Korps in desert uniform climb out of the plane. Two aircraft flying over a makeshift arch. Sign on arch reads “15000 hinsatz”. Afrika Korps troops carry an engine. Soldiers smoke cigarettes. Axis soldiers march to El Alamein, Egypt. An Italian Royal Air Force plane is parked behind. Fighter planes in the sky. A pilot jumps down from a German fighter plane. Axis pilots talking to one another. A pilot stencils a kill mark. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel confers with General Albert Kesselring. Italian Field Marshal Count Ugo Cavallero gets out of his car, meets Rommel and Kesselring. Italian General Ettore Bastico joins Cavallero, Rommel and Kesselring.

Location: Libya
Date: 1942, August
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675080078
Ships and aircraft being inspected for rats to control plague in North Africa

A U.S. Navy training film about the prevention and cure of plague in North Africa (likely Libya or Algeria). A port on the Mediterranean Sea. A ship and a transport aircraft being inspected for rats. A cargo ship with a landing net along its side. An North African civilian climbs up the gangway of the ship. A sailor patrols near the gangway at night. A raised gangway at night. DDT ( Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane) chemical sprayed on shoes of sailors as they come up the gangway.

Location: North Africa
Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077555
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