Title:THE AMERICAN AND BRITISH ADVANCE ON BIZERTA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 434/1
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Troops at Mon Cantre and Bizerte after its capture by the Americans on 7 May. Scenes at Bizerte airfield. German mines being detonated at Bizerte docks.
Description: 8 May. A demolished bridge blown up by the enemy near Bizerte. The bridge with American vehicles crossing an improvised ford in the foreground. A traffic jam of British, French and American vehicles at the ford. View through the girders of the wrecked bridge of vehicles crossing the ford. The wrecked bridge and traffic jam.
A small patrol with Tommy guns moves down a street in Bizerte looking for snipers. British and French soldiers in British uniforms crawling in the ruins of bombed buildings, racing across open stretches of ground and diving into cover. A wounded French soldier being tended by a British Red Cross stretcher bearer. A General Grant tank on its way to shell a machine gun nest.
American infantry proceeding warily down a street in Bizerte. They crouch at corners, watch buildings and run across open roads under fire.
9 May. An almost intact Focke-Wulf FW-190 is guarded by an American sentry. Close-up of a stencil of Mickey Mouse astride a bomb on the nose of the Focke-Wulf FW-190. A smashed three-engined Junkers troop transport plane on the field. Another Focke-Wulf FW-190 in the foreground. A large crater in the middle of the runway. Wrecked German planes in the damaged hangars. A Heinkel four-engined troop transporter crashed into the embankment at the far end of the aerodrome.
Close-up of a British naval officer, an American officer and American personnel defusing a large mine. Americans excavating. Another group uncover the top of the mine. Another mine in a hole. Various parties excavating at the quayside. Close-up of a naval officer lifting out a small mine. Close-up of an American pulling out another mine. A lorry tows two defused mines away across the dock area.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Wilson, M (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
British Red Cross Society (regiment/service)
United States Army (regiment/service)
Free French Army (regiment/service)
Royal Navy (regiment/service)
Keywords: Bizerte, Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
