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keywords: wwii, russian front, battle of stalingrad, north africa campaign, president franklin d. roosevelt, prime minister winston churchill, german p.o.w.s, general dwight d. eisenhower
Synopsis: War On The Russian Front, Allied Leaders Meet In Casablanca, North African Campaign Tunisia...(read more)
- Date: 1943
- Duration: 00:07:18
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Russia, North Africa
War On The Russian Front
Shows Russian troops carrying skis march along a snow covered road. Russian planes attack masses of Germans in full retreat. Scenes of the Battle of Stalingrad. More than 300,000 troops of the German 6th Army is cut-off and trapped around the city of Stalingrad. Scenes of furious fighting in Stalingrad. Shows surrender of the last German troops in Stalingrad in February 1943. Shows thousands and thousands of German prisoners of war (POWs) that surrendered at Stalingrad on march to Russian concentration camps.
Footage of German General that surrendered at Stalingrad. Shows German Lieutenant General Alexander Edler von Daniels as he surrendered. CU image of German Lieutenant General Werner Otto Sanne Commander of the German 100th Jager Infantry Division (Wehrmacht). Shows German Field Marshal Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Von Pallas, the first German Field Marshall to be made prisoner of war (POW).
Allied Leaders Meet In Casablanca
The Casablanca Conference in the city of Casablanca, Morocco January 14-24, 1943.
Image of the Anfa Hotel where the Casablanca Conference, code name “Symbol” was held.
Allied Leaders Meet In Casablanca. Shows officials at the Casablanca Conference. United States President Franklin D Roosevelt (F.D.R.), British Prime Minster Winston Churchill, Generals Hap Arnold and George C Marshall, and British Air Marshall Charles Portal, British field Marshal Allen Brooke, and Admiral Ernest Joseph King and British Admiral Didley Pound.
North African Campaign Tunisia
Tunisia, the last Axis foothold in Africa. General Dwight Eisenhower, Commander of Allied Mediterranean Forces, confers with Field Officers at a camouflaged location in Tunisia. CU image of General Eisenhower. Various scenes of tanks of an American armored unit near El Guettar.
00:04:38:09: The British 8th Army attacks the strongly defended German Mareth Line, a system of fortifications between the towns of Medenine and Gabes in southern Tunisia. Brief image of British 8th Army soldier shouting “fire”, British crew fires 25-pounder anti-tank gun. Great scenes of Indian Infantry (Gurkhas) charging across battle field, rifle in one hand and Khukri knife in other, in Tunisia, North Africa as British forces attack the Mareth Line. Shows Germans surrendering with arms raised. Footage of the British Mk IV Churchill tank in Tunisia. Shows Italian prisoners of war (POWs) in Tunisia. Scenes of the British 8th Army in pursuit of the retreating Germans after breaking the German Mareth Line of defense. Scenes of General Montgomery and British troops entering Sousse, Tunisia and being greeted by the Tunisians. CU Image of General Montgomery standing in moving scout car.
The Axis forces are now enclosed into the small battle area of the port of Tunis and Bizerte with the only escape is by the Mediterranean Sea. The Allied forces pound the Axis forces with artillery fire and bombs dropped by Allied bombers. LS of Hill 609 in Tunisia that dominated the approach to the Mediterranean Sea coast. Shows soldiers of the U.S. 34th “Red Bull” Division that captured Hill 609 in May 1943. Shows advance of Allied forces after 609 is captured.
