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Tunisian Victory Reel-1

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keywords: wwii, north africa campaign, operation torch, operation gymnast, president franklin d. roosevelt, prime minister winston churchill, soldiers live fire training, depth charge attack

Synopsis: Codename Torch - Allied Invasion Of North Africa as President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet to discuss the North Africa campaign, officers of the High Command plan for the landings, troops begin training for upcoming combat and war materiel is made ready for shipment...(read more)

Date: 1942-1943
Duration: 00:10:13
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: North Africa

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Tunisian Victory Reel-1

Tunisian Victory Reel-1

Operation Torch, American and British invasion of French North Africa. Footage of the largest convoy of U.S. military ships to ever sail from America. From Great Britain came an armada of British ships. Shows the American and British invasion fleets on way to the American-British invasion of French North Africa in WWII.

June 18, 1942, President Roosevelt and Prime Minster Winston Churchill meet with their combined Chief of Staffs in Washington DC to plan the invasion of French North Africa. Shows an animated world globe map that illustrate the gravity of the situation in WWII in 1942.

Code name "Torch" (initially called Operation Gymnast) is the code name of the combined American-British invasions of French North Africa with landings at Casablanca, Morocco by Major-General George Patton's Western Force, at Oran Algeria by Major-General Lloyd R. Fredendall's Central Task Force, and Algiers, Algeria by Major-General Charles W. Ryder's Eastern Task Force.

Brief images of the production of war equipment and materials in America and Great Britain to supply the Allied Armies that would be the invasion forces, training of the Allied Soldiers that would be landed on the beaches of French North Africa, and the loading of the ships with war equipment and supplies for Operation Torch. Brief images of U.S. soldiers training under "live fire" of 50 cal machine gun firing and swimming in burning oil on top of water. Shows train cars loaded with tanks, half-tracks, and vehicles. Shows American and British soldiers boarding troop transport ships.

Excellent footage of sonar operator on U.S. escort destroyer picking up ping from Nazi U-boat, sailors rush to "man battle stations" as alarm sounds, depth charges are launched, and explosions of depth charges. Shows several explosions of depth charges.