# TUNISIAN VICTORY

TUNISIAN VICTORY Produced: 1944 Description On the campaign for North Africa. Reel 1 shows planning Churchill visits Roosevelt in Washington. Joint military staffs form plans. Men and materiel are rushed to Brit. and U.S. ports of embarkation. Explains the need for an invasion. Reel 2 shows activities aboard troop ships and amphibious landings at Casablanca and Algiers (Nov. 1942) after French opposition is encountered. U.S. paratroops take Oran. Shows Gens. Eisenhower, Clark, and Giraud at Gibralter prior to the invasion. Reel 3 shows fighting and victory at Algiers. Gens. Eisenhower, Anderson, and Giraud review a joint parade. German films show troops being rushed to Africa, planes bombing and strafing, and Gen. Kesselring in the field. Allied troops enter Tunisia, capture Beja and Medjez-el-Bab, and reach Tunis but withdraw under counterattacks. Tanks battle. Reel 4, winter mud keeps the Allies camped in the mountains. Shows land and air battles. Materiel of war is massed, airfields and roads are built, religious services are held (Gen. Montgomery attends one). Reel 5 shows Christmas activities. Native children and pets are fed. Soldiers sightsee. Shows scenes of the Casablanca Conference. Personages: Roosevelt, Churchill, deGaulle, Giraud, Eisenhower, Alexander, and Cunningham. Churchill visits Gen. Montgomery. Shows Gen. Rommel and German troops behind the Mareth Line. The Allies resume the offensive; Eisenhower's plan is explained. Shows Gens. Doolittle and Spaatz.…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1944
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/111-m-1012-r8)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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