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New York's Fifth Avenue is crowded with soldiers from many nations and civilians, Feb. 21 1943. Rubber and gasoline shortages keeps cars off the road...

Crewmen of a German submarine, damaged by British depth charges and then beached, are questioned by an American officer at Oran, Algeria, Feb. 20, 194...

This captain of a German submarine which was beached on the North Africa coast after being seriously damaged by British depth charges, strokes his bea...

After homes had been occupied by the 8th army a few of a highland regiment explored the ruins of Leptis Magna, Feb. 19, 1943 two miles to the east. Th...

This is one way the gas shortage problem is solved in Dakar, West Africa, which wasrecently occupied by the Allies. Feb. 19, 1943 photo. (AP Photo)

A captured Italian diesel-engined truck hums over the road from the Red Sea Port of Massaua Feb. 18, 1943, with supplies for the new U.S. base at Gura...

The big repair depot at Gura can handle anything that files. A PBY flying boat of the U.S. Navy is tackled by one of the huge lifting cranes, Feb. 18,...

Two Americans stand at the entrance to the former fascist Italian building in Asmara, capital of the former Italian colony of Eritrea, Feb. 18, 1943....

A salvaged craft, left, is in one of the floating Docks in Massaua Harbor shown, Feb. 18, 1943 while a smaller Craft, right, leans to port. Both ships...

This Floating dock shown, Feb.18, 1943, wrecked by Italians in the harbor of Massawa, was salvaged by American workmen under the direction of Capt. Ed...

A Boatload of workers Head for shore in A sail- Equipped Boat After working on The German ship Liebenfels (background), the first scuttled ship raised...

U.S. Salvage operation in Eritrea where Italians scuttled ships and wrecked equipment before British took over. The American salvage tug stands by a b...

This is the former Italian ship Tripolitania, Feb. 18, 1943 in Eritrea, Africa, one of the Axis craft salvaged from the mud of Massawa harbor by Ameri...

Captain Ellsberg stands on the rail of the diver's tug and directs operations as a big pontoon is submerged, Feb. 18, 1943. The captains wears a solar...

Native laborers who worked with American salvage crews at Massawa. In background may be seen the drydocks scuttles by the Italians and raised by the U...

U.S. war supplies for the American

Driver Ervin Johnson, Chicago, Ill., comes up for a Breather after working on a scuttled ship in Massaua Harbor. Robert Koegler, Maplewood, N.J., Hold...

Enemy soldiers, center, march off before, their captors, British Eighth Army infantrymen, as crewmen of a general grant-type tank watch, Feb. 16, 1943...

British Soldiers (wearing teams) and Italian police (with visored caps) Patrol streets in Tripoli, Feb. 16, 1943, after the British Eighth Army tock t...

Small arms ammunition being unloaded from a transport in Bone, Algeria, Feb. 2, 1943, it is on its way to supply allied forces in North Africa. Note t...

Sailors from the British cruisers H.M.S. Argonaut, (in background), talking to soldiers of an anti-aircraft battery, Feb. 2, 1943, that guards the har...

A wounded member of a British Anti-Tank gun crew is attended by a comrade in the shelter of a slit-trench. Their gun continues in action, Jan. 28, 194...

A Bren gun carrier yanks a British Army truck out of the roadside ditch into which it had skidded on a muddy road on the Medjez E Bab front in Libya,...

A truck convoy of the British Eighth Army crossed Wadi Bei El Chebir, West of Sirte, as British forces push westward toward Tripoli and Tunisia, Libya...

A British Officer wounded in both legs is placed aboard a Red Cross Plane at an advanced medical base, somewhere in Libya, Jan. 19, 1943. The plane is...

Barefooted Libyan children visit a Red Cross Base of the British forces in Libya, Jan. 19 1943, to beg for a little personal aid -- sugar and tea. Att...

An airplane serving as an ambulance takes on a mercy passenger list of seriously wounded British Soldiers at an advanced Red Cross Base in Libya, Jan....

Stretcher bearers slide a stretcher bearing a wounded British Soldier into a Red Cross Ambulance somewhere in Libya, Jan. 19, 1943. (AP Photo)

Troops of the British eighth army re-occupied Benghazi, Jan. 18, 1943 and commenced the huge job of repairing the outer harbor wall which was damaged...

Under the wing of an obsolete French bomber, and with the aid of a little canvas, United States soldiers set up a kitchen at Oran, North Africa Jan. 1...

Six C-47's of the U.S. Air Force in North Africa fly over the tents of this evacuation hospital somewhere in Algeria, Jan. 18, 1943, dropping paratroo...

A U.S. soldier dickers with a cab driver for a trip in Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 17, 1943. One horsepower plant replaces the engine made useless by the Gasol...

An armored truck bogs down in soft ground during the British Army???s sweep through trackless Libyan Desert to capture Zuata En Nofilia on the Mediter...

British motorized units found the going tough and slow when they made a wide sweep through the trackless Libyan Desert to capture Zuata En Nofilia on...

The truck on right, sunk deep in soft ground in the trackless Libyan Desert, Jan. 12, 1943, was one of many units of British Motorized Columns which f...

St. John's coach Joe Lapchick, right, and star center Harry Boykoff on Jan. 6, 1943 at practive. (AP Photo/Tom Sande)

One of the huge transports used by the British and U.S. forces in the occupation of North Africa disgorges its men, munitions and supplies in the Harb...

A Tank Corp soldier reads a book of Italian propaganda found in the rubble of Benghazi, Dec. 28, 1942 after the Germans fled the city. (AP Photo)

When the British Eighth army arrived at Benghazi, Libya, Dec. 27, 1942, they found an Italian ship still burning in the harbor. A Bofors anti-aircraft...

Officers going through maps found in Panzer Divisional Barracks, Dec. 26, 1942. They found thousands of maps going clear through the Red Sea and had f...

Benghazi British Army in one of Benghazi's main squares, group of British Soldiers, Dec. 26, 1942. Note Mussolini symbol on wall of local cinema. (AP...

British soldiers raising their flag over Benghazi, Dec. 24, 1942 after capturing the vital Libyan port which London acknowledged, Jan. 30 has fallen b...

Ensign Virgil T. Aldrich, of Amsterdam, N.Y., is one of the salvage experts assigned to the job of salvaging the wreckage of ships sunk in the harbor...

Truckloads of French Zouaves seen as they arrive at American headquarters, Dec. 18, 1942 in Oran. They were on their way back to France on leave when...

Nazi Barge landed and stranded at Matruh, Egypt, Dec. 17, 1942. Soldiers of the British Eighth Army came upon this German landing barge, which was lef...

A propeller blade and four shells mark the grave of a German soldier buried in the Nazi cemetery at Mersa Matruh, Dec. 16, 1942. (AP Photo)

Royal Air Force fighters gave cover to the allied shipping at Algiers where landings were made to effect a bridgehead in preparation for the assault o...

British Eighth Army infantrymen run through the dust of the Western desert passing an axis tank which was put out of the battle. Troops of the Eighth...

One of the biggest parades took place in honor of the allied and French soldiers fallen in battle, Genera Dwight Eisenhower Commander of the Allied F...

Two axis oil tankers which were hit by British bombers, Dec. 9, 1942 in the harbor of Bengasi burn helplessly, sending out great clouds of smoke. Thei...