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1942 North Africa: Operation Torch 250171-09 | Footage Farm

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Channel: footagefarm · 2013 · Film & Animation

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[WWII - 1942, North Africa:  Operation Torch]  R2 of 2
Title:  Oran  - Ships off Algerian coast.  Ships anti-aircraft guns firing.  Warships lay down smoke screen. British & American soldiers down landing nets & into landing craft.  CU soldier.  Landing craft approaching shore - troops wade ashore, up beach.  Roll artillery up beach w/ barrel painted:  Slims Deadly Poison.
07:20:39  Locals line street overlooking harbor; smiling & waving to camera.
07:20:50  MCU Soldiers holding leaflet from President Roosevelt.  American troops march past ORAN sign on restaurant (?); through streets.  Military vehicles; horses; crowds around soldiers.  US Generals (?) greeted.
07:21:24  French soldiers who had been fighting under Vichy - now prisoners of war / POWs assembled in square. 
07:21:45   Title:  Algiers.  Pan Allied convoy at anchor in harbor.  Arriving Allied troops marching across dock.  US troops across field w/ flag & weapons, along road; tanks & jeeps & soldiers on foot along country roads.  07:22:34  Animated map pinpointing Alexandria in Egypt.  
07:22:45  Allied fighter planes taking off from desert toward camera abreast w/ much dust.  Aerial of bombers in flight; bombs dropped & falling away over desert.  Explosions.  B-24s in formation dropping bombs.  GOOD.
07:23:43  British 8th Army artillery firing.  Libya, battle scenes w/ tanks, armored cars, soldiers advancing. Wrecked German aircraft burning & wrecked.
07:24:28  Column of vehicles crossing flooded desert highway; along road.  Supplies & equipment moving up towards front line.
07:24:41  Field Marshall Montgomery w/ British officer ??.
07:24:45  Thousands of captured Italian POWs marched across desert
07:24:59  Algeria - German officers under arrest out of building under American MP guard; walked across yard w/ barracks or ?? in background.
07:25:11  Axis 5th column civilian & military / spies rounded up for internment, out of Hotel.  Locals make rude gestures as Axis prisoners loaded & taken away in trucks.  
07:25:36  Crowd making V for victory signs as Allied trucks pass.  
07:25:39  American medal ceremony. 
07:26:06  Animated map showing Allied flight paths to Italy. Night aerials of the bombing of Italy & upcoming flak.  GOOD.
07:26:54  The End. 
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