U.S. Paratroopers Jump Into North Africa

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Synopsis: American parachute troops rest on a landing field in Algeria. Accompanied by British aerial infantry they board transport planes to seize an important military objective in Tunisia....(read more)

Date: 1943
Duration: 00:01:49
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: North Africa, Tunisia

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U.S. Paratroopers Jump Into North Africa

Fifteen hundred miles from England American parachute troops rest on a landing field in Algeria, after making the longest airborne invasion of the war. Accompanied by British aerial infantry, who well know the North African countryside, they board giant United States C-47 Dakota transport planes to seize an important military objective in Tunisia.

The C-47 transport aircraft are escorted by squadrons of fast P-38's, American fighter planes. Part of the trip is over the Mediterranean. Coming in over the coastline they're nearing enemy held territory. Directly above the objective and the order is "bail out," that means jump. Landing in force they take the vital North African aerodrome at Souk-el-Arba in Tunisia just five minutes before German planes bent upon the same mission were driven off.

Another field from which united nations air forces are conducting their combined offensive to drive the Axis from the shores of Africa.

01:08:13:15

Nose art on C-47 plane reads Big Jig.

01:08:14:00

C-47 Dakota aircraft takes off.

01:08:48:05

Paratroopers jump or bailout of C-47 Dakota transport planes.