WWII - Color, 1943, Tunisia: North African Campaign. ca 09May43

WWII - Color, 1943, Tunisia: North African Campaign. ca 09May43 Italian POWs under guard by MPs moving across grassy plain; truckloads of prisoners behind & mountains in background. MS pan across carrying large packs, bedrolls, buckets etc. into stockade area w/ barbed wire coils. Americans watching. 09:02:31 Prisoners sitting on small field vehicles, cars etc. 09:02:54 US soldiers on trucks, half-tracks & jeeps past villagers waving & shaking hands, giving V-sign along road w/ houses behind. CU faces. 09:04:15 CU Italian (?) officer w/ 3-stars. MS soldiers & sailors walking from trucks. Shaky CU of officer being questioned. 09:05:17 Prisoners of War giving information to MP writing on crate in field. 09:05:33 Black 09:05:39 German (?) officer in cap & other soldiers being questioned. ECUs. 09:06:08 POWs riding past on half-tracks, trucks; into field as others watch. 09:06:48 CU Captured prisoner. MP counting entering POWs. 09:07:03 Black and/or too dark to use. 09:07:32 Trees in wind, blue sky behind; town beyond. MS men by base of electrical tower, pan to road sign. 09:08:29 Captured prisoners beside partially destroyed vehicle; tipping gas can. Italian medic w/ others alongside vehicle; men walk w/ gas can. Pushing Italian field car along road w/ wounded on back. 09:09:35 View down deserted town / city street w/ badly damaged buildings & street lights dangling. 09:10:02 Burning British truck on road to Tunis (GOOD). Two British troops pose beside truck (soft); others inspect smoking & heavily damaged truck. Burning truck. 09:11:22 Convoy of US & Italian trucks filled w/ Italian Prisoners of War slowly past camera & along paved road; into field. Italian staff car past w/ officers (?). 09:13:09 Many prisoners walking into stockade are of field. MS past MP counting, several shots. GOOD. 09:17:04 Italian truck loaded w/ POWs sitting in convoy on road. 09:17:57 MCU two smiling dirty (?) prisoners posing beside road w/ trucks behind. 09:18:16 Prisoners (Germans?) gathering bedrolls, posing & moving off 09:19:12 Italian trucks loaded w/ prisoners in convoy passing along gravel road. 09:19:47 Pans of heavily destroyed white stone multi-story buildings of town. 09:20:28 Burned steel skeleton of burned building. 09:20:48 German (?) Prisoners in field past camera walk w/ bedrolls past camera. MCUs gathering packs after rest stop. VERY GOOD COLOR & ACTIVITY. 09:22:05 German officers standing talking, MCU. WW2; Fighting; POWs; Italian Prisoners of War; NOTE: Any continuous 12 minutes of the entire two parts sold at per reel rate.