Victory in Tunisia (1944)

England.

The sea at night, the mast of a ship.

View of the shore from a ship.

Soldiers at an anti-aircraft gun.

Sailors at headquarters receive messages, type on typewriters.

A searchlight blinks from the ship, a return light from another ship, the English flag at sea.

England.

June 18, 1942 in Washington, a historic meeting of Roosevelt and Churchill takes place.

They are sitting in a car.

The meeting is in a building, military caps are on the shelves.

The globe is spinning, a swastika is on Europe, arrows stretch from Germany to other countries, Japan is threatening from the other side of the globe.

Roosevelt and Churchill are sitting at a table in Roosevelt's residence with the chiefs of state.

A decision has been made to attack in northern Africa.

England.

Newspaper sheets fall from the printing press.

Tapes with text are running on a teletype.

A military meeting, officers at a huge map on the wall.

New, more powerful weapons are being created at factories.

Steel is pouring, machine tools and machines are working.

Military training in the army.

The landing party is landing on the shore, soldiers are running along the hills, overcoming obstacles, ditches with water.

A machine gun and flamethrower are firing.

A port, port cranes are working.

A new military ship is being launched from the slipway.

The paratroopers are training in diving into the water from a tower in full uniform and with weapons.

Soldiers in the water, on the surface of which oil is burning.

Women are working at machine tools in a factory.

Manufacturing of shells, tanks.

Anti-aircraft guns are firing in the port.

Officers are passing through the line of searchlight operators standing at their devices.

Rows of new planes, cars, tanks, a huge warehouse of shells.

A train with guns goes along a bridge over a gorge, a river.

Soldiers are marching from a train.

Armored cars, tanks, motorcyclists are driving.

Loading work is underway in the port.

Soldiers boarding a ship, seeing them off at the pier.

Departure of ships of the British and American fleets to the Mediterranean.

Soldiers on the deck of a ship.

One of them plays the piano.

The sonarman at work, observers on the tower.

The sonarman receives a signal underwater.

The siren sounds, the sailors run to their places, a torpedo is launched at an enemy submarine, explosions in the sea

England.

All clear.

The soldiers are resting again, playing cards, cleaning their weapons, playing ball, reading books and letters.

The sailors are scrubbing the deck with mops.

A soldier in glasses is reading a book and chewing a sandwich.

Signalmen from the ships are flashing searchlights and waving flags.

A newspaper with a headline about Africa is sticking out of a soldier's back pocket.

Two soldiers are memorizing words from a guide to North Africa.

Map of the Atlantic Ocean, NDP. "Acrobat" /name of the operation/.

Scheme of the movement of the fleets through Gibraltar to the cities of Casablanca, Oran, Algiers.

A clash of German and French troops is planned near Benghazi.

England.

View from the porthole of a moving ship.

Sailors are doing exercises on the deck.

A line of sailors on the deck in life jackets.

Sailors doing their daily chores, peeling potatoes, relaxing, writing letters, looking overboard.

Washing is hanging on the lines.

In the rear, bulletins with reports from the front are posted.

Special dispatch from Cairo, November 8, 1942: after 12 days in the western desert, the 8th American Army of General Montgomery, the German Afrika Korps.

An airplane is flying, a view from the airplane of the city lights, explosions and fires /night and daytime footage/.

The general in front of the camera.

French generals are driving in a car along the street of the city.

Hitler is at his residence in the Berghof, he is with officers on the terrace.

The teletype is working.

The telephone exchange is transmitting messages.

Ships are sailing, officers are in a conference at the map.

A brochure on the conditions for joint action on a prearranged signal.

The landing operation in Algeria was carried out by the Eastern Naval Force, consisting entirely of British ships under Rear Admiral Barroffs.

Fighting at sea and on land.

Searchlights in the sky.

The landing force descends on the shore, soldiers run.

The admiral salutes the troops.

Soldiers march, trucks drive.

The attack on Oran by airborne forces.

Paratroopers jump from planes.

The scheme of the encirclement of the Germans in Oran.

General Patton's main forces landed in the areas of Fedala, Safi and Port Lyautey in French Morocco.

Guns fire from ships, the landing force crosses to the shore in boats.

Anti-aircraft guns fire at planes

England.

Germany.

Africa.

View of ships from an airplane.

Boats with troops, tanks.

Fighting in the city.

Map of Europe, swastika on it.

Germany occupies the unoccupied part of France, which, according to the 1940 armistice agreement, remained under the control of the Vichy government.

The French decide to cooperate with the Allies.

Darlan is appointed High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief of the Navy.

Giraud is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force.

France enters the war, the people of Paris see off the volunteers.

Joint meeting of American, British and French generals.

England.

Scheme of the offensive on Tunisia from the sea and air.

Officers and generals at headquarters.

British soldiers marching.

Local residents on camels.

A train with French soldiers is passing by, an Arab shouts something after them.

German military bases are based in Sicily and Sardinia, German planes are taking off.

Allied tanks moving in the mountains, a train with guns and soldiers.

Paratroopers descending, American soldiers descending from a ship.

German bombing in attack.

Allied anti-aircraft guns firing, a downed plane falling England.

Germany.

Scheme of the offensive on Tunisia and Bizerte.

It begins with the landing of marines in the port of Bougie.

General Eisenhower in a squadron, talking to pilots.

Troops moving along mountain roads, fighting.

Signpost to Beijou, view of the city.

French general in position.

Street fighting.

Signpost to Medjes el-Bab, Allied soldiers in the city.

Tanks moving, trucks with soldiers on the road.

Tank battle.

Tank burning.

Scheme on the map, the Allies pushing the Germans from Beijou and Medjes el-Bab to Tunisia.

Troops moving.

Roadside stone inscription: Bizerte 64 km, Tunisia 71 km.

New sign: Tinja 19 km, Bizerte 27 km.

Troops advancing in mountainous terrain.

Tanks and guns in the desert.

German planes bombing.

A wounded man being led.

A burning plane on the ground.

England.

Soldiers dig in.

It starts to rain, lightning flashes, streams of water wash away the mud.

Airplanes on a muddy field, soldiers dig out chassis, pull trucks out of the mud.

Cars and tanks go through the water.

English pilots dry off by the fire.

Soldiers in the trench make a fire, eat from mess tins.

England.

Map of the advance of troops from Medjes el-Bab through Faida, Manknessy, Gafsa, diagram of the confrontation between the Allied and German troops, battles at several points.

The wounded are taken away on special platforms to the plane.

A nurse takes care of the wounded on the way, then they are transferred to an ambulance bus.

English troops in positions, running among the trees.

Medics carry the wounded.

A soldier walks with difficulty through the mud.

A caravan of horses on the road.

English planes in the sky, an air battle is underway, a downed plane falls.

Squadron of American planes, gunner fires, bombs fly down.

Truck wheel spins in mud England.

Scheme of confrontation of equipment, increase of equipment on both sides.

Production processes in the rear, loading of guns on ships, planes, tanks, guns in Africa.

Mechanics repair equipment.

Train from the USA with cargo for the front.

English planes on the field, take off to the sea.

Construction of strategic roads.

English airfield, unloading of fuel, food.

From the USA for Bacon's army boxes with food.

Warehouses with boxes, cars, shells, canisters Sea coast, ruins of ancient buildings, round columns, arches.

Local residents plow with cows.

Arabs ride on donkeys.

Cathedrals, church interior.

Ruins of the cathedral, soldiers near the ruins.

Priest reads a sermon for soldiers.

Priest in the troops, soldiers listen, sitting on the ground.

Soldiers sing psalms.

Pilots at a church ceremony in a field, in a camp.

Peaceful images: flocks of sheep grazing.

A soldier walks next to a woman holding a child.

Children in an American school play in the yard, children in a kindergarten.

Women lead children.

A child blows soap bubbles, children with adults decorate a Christmas tree.

Soldiers pray.

Crosses on soldiers' graves, an American flag on a grave.

A chaplain reads a prayer

England.

Church bells ringing.

An American soldier coming out of a door, "snow" falling on him, torn paper showered on him.

Soldier being wished a Merry Christmas, bags of mail being carried.

A car in a camp, soldiers running to a tent for mail.

French soldiers receiving mail, reading letters, opening parcels.

Soldiers plucking a goose.

Bottles of champagne standing.

Food and goose carcasses being unloaded from a plane.

Cooks preparing a festive dinner, a feast for soldiers.

A soldier sticking a twig into a pudding.

Soldiers under a camouflage net.

A general eating from a bowl, an Arab boy nearby.

A soldier eating stew from a can, feeding a dog.

Soldiers feeding a donkey wearing a cap, soldiers feeding a piglet.

French soldiers playing with a dog and a donkey.

A monkey scratches a soldier's head.

Soldiers in a local village, throwing cookies to children, giving them milk to drink.

An American soldier gets into a car, it turns out that it is harnessed to a horse, an Arab urges it on.

Soldiers with local residents walk around the city, watch a street magician perform, a monkey, and see the sights.

An officer tries to mount a camel.

The general mounts but falls.

A city street under stone arches, residents are walking, women in burqas.

Soldiers are resting, they play sports, Americans throw a rugby ball.

A soldier plays the guitar, another reads a newspaper, looks at photos of beauties in a magazine, cleans his weapon, and swims.

Churchill and Roosevelt arrive in Casablanca.

Roosevelt drives around the wax in a car.

Churchill goes to the location of the troops.

The Anfa Hotel, generals and admirals at a meeting.

A French plane, De Gaulle's arrival.

Generals in the army.

Churchill and Roosevelt sit in front of the generals in the courtyard of the headquarters.

Airfield, NDP on a Commando plane, Churchill happily greets General England.

The disposition of troops on the map, the Allied armies against the Germans, General Freiburg's New Zealand Army in the south.

General Montgomery's 8th Army on the march, tanks and infantry on the march.

Kesselring's German troops are on the march.

Fierce fighting is underway.

Scheme of the attack in the Mareth area.

Scheme of the encirclement of the Germans at Kasserine, Pass, Tebessa, Tala.

Generals Montgomery and Eisenhower in a car with the troops.

Allied troops are pushing back the Germans.

General Montgomery at a conference.

Scheme of the relationship of troops in the Tunis area.

Allied generals at the airfield.

The general at the map among the soldiers.

Drawings on American planes: Pluto the dog from the cartoon, NDP. "Yankee Doodle", a drawing of a girl with horns - Jersey Jackass, naked beauty Fancy Pente and others

Tunisia.

Newspaper article and photo - Air Vice Marshal Sir G.P. Lloyd.

The fleet on the march, accompanied by aircraft.

Scheme of the old and new concept of squadron formation.

English aircraft in flight.

French troops are advancing from the south.

Scheme of the offensive at Wadi Zig-Zau.

Guns on the ground near the palm tree.

Guns are firing in the night.

Morning, the battle continues England.

Field Marshal Rommel with officers at the troop location, he looks through binoculars.

Tanks are moving across the desert.

English guns are firing.

The French army is making a flanking maneuver /on the diagram/.

Moments of the battle England.

El Hamma, the inhabitants of the city meet the allies.

Tanks are moving across the desert, ships are approaching from the sea, there is a battle in the air.

Scheme of the offensive on El Hamma, Gabess, Pichon.

The English and American armies are moving towards each other from El Guettara and El Hamma.

Soldiers shake hands, offer cigarettes, talk Africa.

Tunisia.

Scheme of the offensive in the north.

Signpost Enfil Aville.

Refugees with things are walking along the road, carts with belongings are driving.

Soldiers are removing a German sign in the city.

A general suggests that civilian youths remove Jewish stars from their clothes.

Children surround a soldier.

A soldier examines the clothes of an Arab boy.

A military doctor examines a child in the arms of a local woman

Tunisia.

The map shows Bizerte, Tunis, Sousse, Sfax.

The offensive in Tunisia continues.

Fighting is underway.

Sappers are looking for mines on the road, defusing them.

Tank battle on Goubellat Plain, American tanks are advancing.

Burning German tanks.

French and British troops are advancing.

Soldiers are climbing the mountains on ropes, an attack.

Dead soldiers are lying on the ground.

Height 609, the allies begin artillery fire on the height.

Night battle.

Field hospital, doctors are treating the wounded under enemy fire.

Morning, soldiers are on the march, they are going up the mountain.

Conference of the general of the 1st and 8th armies.

Airplanes are preparing for flight, loading shells, take off.

Tank attack, soldiers are running among cacti.

Guns are firing from ships along the shore

Tunisia.

Airplanes bomb enemy positions, air combat.

Guns in the field, infantry attack.

English planes dive on the enemy, a huge number of bombs fly.

Offensive on Bizerte and Tunisia.

The Germans are surrounded in 3 rings and destroyed.

German soldier with raised hands.

German soldiers surrender with a white flag.

A column of prisoners is walking.

Prisoner of war camp in Tunisia.

Generals are getting off the plane.

View from the plane of the road, accumulation of troops on the ground.

Wrecked German planes, guns, helmets.

German prisoners are walking, covering themselves with their hands.

Faces of Allied soldiers: soldiers from England, USA, France, Australia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, this is evidenced by the stripes on their sleeves.

Smiling soldiers.

Meeting the victorious soldiers in their hometowns.

Happy faces.

Flags of the 3 Allied countries, generals.

The victory sign is V. The following people are shown in the film: President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, General Eisenhower, General Montgomery, General Spatz, General Doolittle, General Clark, Air Marshal Charles Portal, Vice Admiral Louis Mountbatten, as well as Hitler, Rommel, von Arnim and Kesselring