WW II - 1943 , North Africa: Spellman; Allied Troops Reviewed; Invasion & Destruction

WW II - 1943 (?), North Africa: Spellman; Allied Troops Reviewed; Invasion & Destruction Archbishop Spellman during 1943 visit as President Roosevelt’s agent, w/ USAAF officer arrive by car; posing talking w/ USAAF Chaplin, officers & pilots alongside aircraft on airfield; CUs signing ??. C-47 transport plane taxiing. 04:23:20 Slug 04:23:22 Military ceremony, General Eisenhower / Ike & French General Henri Giraud inspect troops. Flags of USA, France & Britain. Low Angle / LA officers talking, looking; standing in front of flags. Native troops marching w/ rifles in review past officers on reviewing stand w/ flags behind. 04:24:34 MS Women military personnel watching parade - US troops march past reviewing stand. 04:25:07 Allied tanks & artillery mounted by Scots guards past in parade. Arab horsemen in parade. 04:25:38 French troops march past. Formations of aircraft fly over. 04:26:30 Scots guards in kilts w/ bagpipes march past. US soldiers watching parade. Officers on reviewing stand. Scottish pipers march slowly past; British troops march past 04:27:25 Slug. 04:27:27 Flotilla of naval ships leaving harbor, various ships at anchor. British (?) troops on LCI landing craft underway w/ smoke rising in background. Small landing craft circling before invasion. 04:28:53 British troops run down LCI gangway. Various aircraft overhead, bomb dropping on rocky point. Black smoke rising - coastal village w/ small destroyed / damaged houses w/ smoke rising behind. 04:30:44 Sunken ships in harbor / breakwater. 04:30:54 British (?) soldiers walking single file thru destroyed buildings of small town. Pan town above edge of harbor. Soldiers marching / advancing past. 04:32:34 Prisoners marched past heavily burned & destroyed stone buildings. LS along road & assembling in front of destroyed building. Troops carry crates. 04:33:11 Troops of various nationalities posing, waving & V-signs. CUs. WW2 Fighting; Catholic Religion; 1940s; NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate.