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US Army in North Africa Front 250171-03 | Footage Farm

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Channel: footagefarm · 2013 · Film & Animation

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[WWII - Color, 1942, Northern Africa Front]  R3
Road sign for Oued Zarga, Medjez El Ban & Tunis.  US tanks move out in convoy toward Tunisian border, cross thru French road barricade, column crosses into Tunisia over border .
06:22:18  A lonely church on hill near Oued Zarga - tilt down church & pan showing bomb & shell damage interior showing remains of religious mosaics & statue.
06:22:57  Nazi planes bomb Allied Forces airport at Souk-el-Arba.  German plane diving, drops bombs, fires rage in gasoline dump.  More German planes - US soldier w/ machine gun.  Plane downed, crashes & burns in distance.
06:24:19  American casualties loaded onto stretchers & into armored ambulances.  Wounded RAF pilots, shell shocked Arab helped by troops.  Armored US ambulance moves off.  German planes drop more bombs - smoke in distance.  Fires burning.  Brief shot soldier with movie camera.  British truck burning.  Plane dive bombing - anti-aircraft / ack ack guns - fires burning.  Bomb crater w/ men in rubble.  Huge pall of black smoke.  GOOD.
06:27:57  American transport C47 planes arrive to replenish destroyed supplies.  C-47s land on desert airfield.
06:28:37  Smiling Italian paratrooper prisoner of war salutes smiling; other Italian POWs relax & acting the fool, one does somersault, others stand in relaxed groups smiling & laughing. 
06:29:25  Soldier holds board Nov. 26th 1942 Thanksgiving.  Thanksgiving Day preparations - soldiers chasing turkeys, catch one.
06:29:50  Road sign pointing to Tunis, Beja, Lekef.  Tank commander w/ war maps; dispersal area, officers w/ maps.  Jeeps, military vehicles & tanks move off in convoy / column.
WW2; Fighting; 1942; 26Nov42; Propaganda; 1940s; Operation Torch (?);
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