Latest News Films from the Tunisian Battle Front! [Etc.]

This 1943 newsreel, likely from a U.S. outlet like Paramount, compiles six vivid WWII snapshots in black-and-white. Part 1 plunges into Tunisia’s battlefront—soldiers kneel at a field chapel, then swim in a rare lull, before tanks and artillery pound German lines, dust rising from May’s final push. Part 2 shifts to Central America—workers hack through jungle, laying a highway from Panama to Mexico City, a strategic lifeline. Part 3 guards home soil—Washington, DC’s anti-aircraft guns bristle, searchlights sweep, a shield against phantom raids. Part 4 grazes Australia’s outback—cows and sheep dot the plains, wool and meat bolstering Allies. Part 5 thrills with naval action—a U.S. Coast Guard cutter rams a German U-boat, guns blazing, depth charges booming, then limps to port towed by a Polish destroyer. Part 6 soars with B-17 Flying Fortresses bombing a U-boat base—perhaps Lorient—wings glinting as they limp back to England. A brisk, multi-front pulse of 1943’s war machine, it’s grit and glory in reel time.