Planning and training for invasion of North Africa in World War II

'Tunisian Victory' shows preparations during World War 2. Film opens showing a sailor in the crow's nest of a ship in a convoy of American warships. Aerial glimpse of the convoy. Sailors working on teletype machines in s communications center aboard an American warship. Ships exchanging light signals at night. Scene shifts to a British naval convoy moving across the sea. View from bridge of forward guns on British King George V-class battleship. A single stack Navy destroyer ship. HMS Rodney with 3 over 3 forward gun turrets leads another warship protecting the convoy. The aircraft carrier, HMS Illustrious in camouflage paint. An American Navy Douglas Dauntless dive bomber seen from a ship. A U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY Catalina aircraft over the convoy. Brief view of a four-engine bomber flying over the convoy. Scene shifts to sailors on ship's deck in the American convoy. The British flag on one of its convoy ships. Scene shifts to the White House on June 18, 1942. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arriving with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a car. Lights burning at night in the White House. Closeup of hats of the British and American staff officers on a rack. World Globe showing German army thrusts to the North by Field Marshal Fedor von Bock into Ukraine and the Caucasus, and another by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel South toward Egypt. In Asia, the conquests of Japan are shown. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill are seated at a desk. Behind them are Roosevelt's assistant, Harry Hopkins and two uniformed officers. View of relief map showing planned joint offensive. British and American staff officers seated at a planning table. Pertinent maps being printed for the offensive. A teletype tape coming across a machine that reads "ANFO GAZE ACROBAT RE NO K" A typist at a teletype machine with tape being made. A busy military communications center. A plan marked "secret" moving across a sliding document mechanism or slide. Defense workers arriving at production factories for work; large groups of war production workers. Workers at military equipment plants and factories in the the U.S. and the U.K., including many women workers involved in war production. A document labeled "SECRET OCSigO" Staff officers in planning session. U.S. Army Chief of Staff, George C.Marshall, seated with British Field Marshal Sir John Dill. More views of the Combined Chiefs of Staff at work. Steel mills in operation. American army troops training and preparing in battle drills, firing machine guns, battlefield advance training, leaping into water, practicing paratrooper jumps. New ships including Liberty Ships and warships being launched at American shipyards. Workers inside a plant building B-17 bomber aircraft. An early version of Sherman tank (external bolts showing). Shipboard twin anti aircraft guns being test fired. Yards filled with newly manufactured weapons.War materiel and troops moving on railroad trains in America and Britain. A Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft being towed. Ships being loaded at docks. Troops and war materiel being loaded aboard ships in the U.S. and Britain. Crowd on dock (mostly women) waving goodby to soldiers on a ship. Soldiers on troop ships underway. The entertain themselves. Soldier playing piano on deck of ship as fellow soldiers listen and stomp feet. Closeup view of hands on piano and a soldiers boot nearby on the piano case.

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