USA / N. Africa: Italian Prisoners Of War, British in Tunisia - ADC-232

Summary

ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR Somewhere in the USA MS, pws play volley ball. LS, MS, ?Ws carrying shovels march on road. MPs follow behind each group. Pan s general view of camp. mS, march into camp thru gate and are checked in by Sgt. MS, two US officers talk to PWs. CU, US officer and two priests. LS, field altar. Numerous Ws attend religious services. CU, priest at altar. CUs, PWs attend communion services. , MSs CU, plates of spaghetti on kitchen table. MSs, CUs, table covered with pies. Italian inscriptions on pies. MS, PWs eat meal in spacious dining room. TUNISIA, NORTH AFRICA Record Group 111 (No date) Accession Number III-NAV-210 LS, 2 British medium Mark VI tanks roll across desert. Short scene, British trucks pass camera; wrecked Nazi tank in fg. IS, several British Mows. MCUs, British soldiers fire How. TUNISIA, NORTH AFRICA (No date) CONT'D VS, wrecked bldgs and equipment. MS, young girl presents Gen Bernard L Montgomery with flowers. MS, Spahis give sabre salute. Gen Montgomery stands in open car and greets natives of Tunisia. AVs, trucks on highway, British soldiers march in opposite direction. MCU, M-3 tank gun is fired. LS, smoke rises from hit in bg. VS, British soldiers examine wrecked equipment and captured supplies stacked on ground. Seq: British soldiers uncover "Spitfire," clean guns and load shells, Plane takes off, strafes tank until it bursts into flames. Seq: Jews and others of city remove Stars of David from clothing and German signs from bldgs. Seq: British troops come out of trench and take German prisoners, CUs, German prisoners. Long line of prisoners behind wire enclosure. LSs, CU, Gen Montgomery and Gen Harold Alexander at airport. CU, Gen Dwight D Eisenhower. VS, British-civilians and Tunisian natives cheer wildly as British take over city, girls throw flowers, hands are upraised in "V" salute, camera pans to British flag waving from mast.