https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/6c6fb673-077b-44b8-b4f7-7ba04196a663 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Part 1: https://youtu.be/M6BBfcZhMVo This is the second portion of “Tunisian Victory” released in 1944, a follow up to the British-produced "Desert Victory" (1943). The film is credited as directed by Frank Capra with some segments re-created by John Huston, but also has material in directed by Anthony Veiller, Hugh Stewart and Roy Boulting. The second part of the film shows the coordinated, strategic efforts of the Allied forces in their drive towards victory in Tunisia. The film combines footage with narration by Burgess Meredith and Bernard Miles relaying the experience of both British and American soldiers. The film shows strategic meetings between Gen. Eisenhower and Winston Churchill, the creation of the United Tunisian Command, capture of important sites including Hill 106 and Longstop Hill, and finally the German surrender in North Africa and the liberation of the continent. 00:00 Confetti drops as troops celebrate Christmas and the New Year (:29). Parcels and letters from home (:55). Bottles of rum line a bar as they prepare for a Christmas dinner (1:23). Eisenhower joins troops in celebration (2:33). Joyous North African youth jump for candy from Allied troops (3:00). A magician plays tricks (3:42). Pyramids and camels rim the Christmas celebration (3:56). Forces play a ball game in the sand (4:14). FDR (4:45) and Winston Churchill (4:57) arrive for the Casablanca Conference at the Anfa Hotel (5:03) in January. Generals de Gaulle, Girard attend the meeting to plan the next phase of the war (5:17). British officers operating under Eisenhower are pictured (5:44) Admiral Alexander, Lt. Gen. Kenneth and Admiral Cunningham (5:56) as part of Operation Torch. Churchill meets with the 8th Army (6:19). Maps relay German position (6:33). General Rommel (6:54) stands with his army equipped with new Panzer tanks (7:19) and new bomber planes of the Luftwaffe (7:24). The push back and forth from Axis and Allied forces over the Kasserine pass follows. Maps show strategic seaports (9:43). Aerial shots pass over vital hills in Tunis (10:10). The Northwest African Air Force commander General Spaatz (10:39) and its three divisions follow. Commanders were General Jimmy Doolittle (10:47), Air Marshal Lloyd (10:58) and Air Marshall Cunningham (11:26). Payloads spill from bomb bays during the twenty-four-hour assault (11:54). General Bernard Montgomery led the British through the Battle of the Mareth Line (12:29). Heavy rains slowed progress (14:08). Infantrymen maintain the bridge head (14:24). Freyberg and New Zealand forces reinforced by armored divisions (14:59) push for El Hana. Douglas DB-7’s buzz over (15:07). German forces get pinned (15:46). Celebrations erupt as New Zealand tank divisions push through (15:53). Battleships bombard installations along the sea wall (16:31). Allied air force pilots hit enemy transport planes (16:36). Scenes from April 7th show US patrols joining with the British 8th Army (18:12). By April 20th, the 8th Army had driven German divisions past the hills of Enfidaville (18:55). Refugees march past long-range guns (19:03) following the wake of battle. Jewish youth pull gold stars from their shirts (19:55). Army doctors tend to the women and children (19:59). Positions of the Germans banked by British and French are shown on a map (20:20). Vital hills for capture (21:08) are noted. The British 6th armored division moved towards Tunis (21:34). The British 78th division (22:21) attacked Longstop hill. Dead litter the hills during twelve days of gunfire (23:38). The Afrika Korps lines break (23:45). Infantry engineers (23:55) construct 11 miles of new roads. The assault on Hill 609 (24:14) began with long range artillery (24:17). Troops on hill tops are lit up by explosions (26:22). They march for the peak of the hill (26:42). General Alexander (26:55) pushed for heavy bombardment and local attacks from Montgomery’s front while simultaneously transferring armored divisions from the 8th and 1st army (27:08). Bombs are loaded up for the combined effort (27:21). US and British fliers take to the sky (27:56). Curtiss P-40’s buzz by (28:01). US and British ground troops, French infantry (28:18) and the British Navy (28:28) join together to form a new form of blitz warfare. Eight hours in (31:02), Allied armored divisions break through into Bizerte, Tunis and Hammamet. The German surrender (31:53) closed the Axis African campaign. Celebrations erupt as Africa was liberated (36:26). 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