ATTACK BY ALLIED TROOPS SOUTH OF THALA [Allocated Title]

The Allied counter-attack from Thala, Tunisia after the German breakthrough at the Kasserine Pass. Supplies approaching Kasserine.

22 February. Crusader and Valentine tanks climbing the steep hill out of Thala in convoy, with Arabs in the foreground. A tank passing the camera. The tank commander in the turret. An American half track vehicle under mortar fire from German positions. French transport moving up to Thala from Kalaa-Djerda. A British despatch rider splashes through the mud with American and British trucks in the background. A troop train pulling into the station at Kalaa-Djerda filled with French troops and mules from Gafour. American guns in the foreground on another train. French troops disembarking from the train, mainly Algerian soldiers with French officers. Men disembarking from old horse vans, putting on their kit and marching away. French troops unloading mules from the train down gangplanks. The mules are led away and saddled. Mules in trucks are moved to another line. Mule transport and Allied motor transport moving up the hill outside Thala. American 105 mm guns firing on German troops. A gun crew loading a gun. The gun firing. Close-up of the breech as the shell is rammed home and fired. The empty shell case is taken away past the gun commander at the telephone. American Mark IV Sherman tanks manned by British troops of the 6th Armoured Division moving up to Thala through dust.

24 February. A knocked out German Mark III tank hit by a shell fired by the 17th/21st Lancers. Transport including a Bofors gun moving up quickly, passing the hull of the tank. Four more knocked out Mark III tanks in a valley. Close up of one of the derelict tanks at the side of the road as more transport passes. A knocked out Mark IV tank on the road to Kasserine. A captured British Valentine tank with the Bison sign of the 21st Panzer Regiment and German crosses visible. The advance along the Kasserine road with a Bofors gun passing another knocked out Mark III tank. A mines clearing squad from the 8th Field Company (?), 6th Armoured Division moving down the road with equipment followed by the supplies convoy. Sherman tanks manned by British crews moving up the dusty road from Thala. The tanks along with Valentine and Crusader tanks turning off the road onto a temporary track and moving along it at speed. 25 pounder guns being hauled across country by quads.

25 February. Valentine and Crusader tanks moving off at dawn in a thick mist. Men removing a German mine from the road.

35mm