FIRST ARMY DRIVES FOR TUNIS [Allocated Title]

The 26th Armoured Brigade advance from Medjez El Bab to Tunis.

6 May. German prisoners. Infantry transport and scout cars passing through Massicault and past the signpost for the town. Close-up of the signpost. Bren carriers moving past a signpost for Tunis. View of tanks and vehicles taken from an Artillery Observation Post. The Intelligence Officer of the 26th Armoured Brigade searches for paper and equipment at the Hermann Goering Divisional Headquarters. Tanks and littered ground. A pile of crosses.

7 May. The Hermann Goering Divisional Headquarters. Two elderly French ladies greet British troops at La Mornaghia. The German cemetery at La Mornaghia. A knocked out German Mark IV tank.

8 May. A large German ammunition dump, left intact. Abandoned 88mm guns. Dead German soldiers lying around an 88mm gun. A long line of transport of the Welsh Guards on a cart track. A French farmer and his family joyously greet British troops in the suburbs of Tunis. A batch of prisoners. View of the outskirts of Tunis taken from a scout car. Crowds greet the troops. Infantry moving through the streets as prisoners pass. French people cheering and singing in the streets. More infantry arriving. The French flag flying from a large building. Men of the Northamptonshire Regiment in Tunis. Crowds singing, cheering and waving.

Shells falling in an artillery barrage on German positions in the hills beyond Tunis. Allied tanks at the foot of the hill, screened by smoke.

Junkers and Focke-Wulf aircraft shot up by the RAF at a German airfield on the outskirts on Tunis.

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