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A British soldier gives a part of his own supply of food to a native Arab woman at Giovanni Berta, 40 miles, West of Derna, as a party of the British...

Wheel to wheel, guns on the horizon flash as they send up a barrage in advance of South African troops breaking through the enemy defenses on the El A...

Rumbling along a roadway, Dec. 9, 1942 in the Green Belt of the Western Desert, Libya, a column of British tanks and other vehicles pass an Italian co...

A long line of bombs, loaded on

The waterfront at Benghazi is littered with the wreckage of axis ships, Dec. 9, 1942 which the bombers of the British and American forces shattered in...

A German mark IV Special tank, damaged, loaded aboard a tank transport truck, fell into the hands of fast- Advancing British soldiers in the Western D...

After allied bombers had smashed to bits a Nazi ammunition train at Simla, near Mersa Mature, in the Western Desert, Indian troops were put to work re...

Sergeant J.K. Wood, left, of the Australian Air Force, and Sergeant R. L. Spence, of the Canadian Air Force, made a three-week trek across the Egyptia...

British motor transport and tanks move up Halfaya Pass after the enemy rear guard has been cleared away on Dec. 8, 1942. (AP Photo)

U.S. nurses entrain in Egypt for posts smiling from the window of a railroad train which is taking them to posts of action, a contingent of U.S. nurse...

Italian staff officers walking to Alamein station on Dec. 8, 1942, to board the first passenger train to leave there since the eight army recaptured i...

U. S troops arrive in Egypt, Dec. 8, 1942 after crossing in a convoy. American soldiers landing at Egypt march down a rail siding at their Debarkation...

This was Benghazi, Libya, Dec. 8, 1942, when British troops re-occupied the city. Only a few damaged buildings in the foreground and a burning merchan...

The Cathedral at Benghazi, Dec. 8, 1942. All around it are wrecked buildings and docks, sunken ships and broken jetties. But the Cathedral itself is u...

Scene in Benghazi, Dec. 8, 1942 after the allies had taken possession of the port which once was one of the main supply bases for Rommel and his armie...

A British Soldier, following up the tanks, is somewhat perplexed by the multiplicity of German and Italian signs at the entrance to Mersa Matruh, Dec....

Three Lance Corporals of the Corps of Military Police captured 300 Italian prisoners. The picture shows L. Cs. Brookfield, Gunn and Gubby standing amo...

Navy men bringing 44 Gallon tanks of water to shore at Sollum, Dec. 8, 1942. (AP Photo)

Long lines of German and Italian prisoners march down road to opening in wire fences around camp near Alexandria, Egypt, Dec. 8, 1942 then double back...

Captured in the rout of Rommel's forces, and placed in this camp near Alexandria, Egypt, Dec. 8, 1942 a German prisoner of war catches up on his sewin...

Kudabu, Chimpanzee mascot of the U.S. Engineers in Liberia, takes her siesta on a soldier's cot using his helmet as pillow. As in World War I this Afr...

Italians go to work with patches on their backs, denoting their POW (Prisoner of War) status. These Italians set to work digging stones for trenches a...

This young German soldier, wounded in Marshal Rommel's retreat across the desert, rests dejectedly at a disposal camp, near Alexandria, Egypt, Dec. 7,...

German officer gets special attention because this German officer swore at an English Captain, he gets more attention than the rest of the prisoners i...

In absence of a mirror a German soldier shaves his companion with a safety razor in a large disposal camp near Alexandria, Egypt, Dec. 7, 1942. The ma...

German prisoners among those captured in Rommel's rout had instructions from their commanders to turn their backs on cameramen they did. This disposal...

While a British officer talks to them and gestures with a rolled paper, Italian prisoners in a disposal camp near Alexandria, Dec. 7, 1942 watch the G...

A member of Royal Air Force ground crew perches atop a wrecked Heinkel, Nazi bombing plane, on a landing field between Daba and Fuka in Egypt, Dec. 3,...

The boots of British infantrymen splash through mud caused by heavy rains in the Western Desert, and splash discarded helmets of German soldiers, Dec....

View of Naval Armed Guard in practice maneuvers under orders of ensign standing left in upper abutment on Dec. 3, 1942. (AP Photo)

Scene at Oran Algeria as a message from major general Fredendall was read by major Russell Akers, Jr., third from left, and accepted by a colonel of t...

Motorized Convoys, miles long, carrying supplies and reinforcement, move right behind the victorious British fighting forces chasing Marshal Erwin Rom...

German tanks and trucks litter the sands in Matruh, Egypt, Dec. 2, 1942, their effectiveness reduced to zero by allied bombs. (AP Photo)

Axis munitions train hit by U.S. bomb only the riddled on tracks, was left after an ammunition train was hit by U.S. bombers, Dec. 1, 1942 in Libya. (...

Teaching Swahili on sand table at an East African Army Education Corps School, September 1943. Here Africans take courses in Map reading surveying and...

This picture was in a report from Gen. Stroop SS commander to his commanding officer and introduced in court showing the destruction of Warsaw in the...

These two pictures were among several introduced at the War Crimes Trials in Nuremberg showing destruction in Warsaw in the spring of 1943. The pictur...

British Tommies trying on various items of clothing from an abandoned Italian Q.M. stores in Nov. 28, 1942. (AP Photo)

A captured six inch gun which gave some resistance to the Royal Navy in Fort Duperre near Algiers, Nov. 27, 1942. (AP Photo)

Packed to capacity, a landing barge starts off from a transport toward Algiers, French North Africa, during occupation operations of that French posse...

Some of the transports that brought American troops for the North African offensive lie off-shore at Mers-El-Kebir, on Nov. 26, 1942. Anti-aircraft gu...

American troops swing down the long quay at Mers-El-Kebir after transport (background) docked with a contingent of soldiers for the campaign in French...

American infantrymen in battle gear wear tiny American flag placards under nets over their helmets as they march through Oran, French North Africa Nov...

Wearing lifebelts, American troops crowd the deck of a transport, at sea but nearing Oran, Nov. 26, 1942, immediate zone of operations. Life rafts han...

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Within a few hours of the American Forces capture Maison Blanche aerodrome, at Algiers, the Royal Air Force. were on the scene. R.A.F. mechanics are...

Axis soldiers come out of the desert dugouts to the persuasion of bayonet wielded by a Scot (left, in steel helmet) as the British eighth army chased...

These American troops, in full equipment for battle, go over the side of a transport and lower themselves hand over and with the aid of a Jacob's ladd...

Landing barges swarm about a U.S. Transport disembarking troops shown on Nov. 25, 1942 near Algerian beachhead. (AP Photo)

A group of French prisoners, at least one of whom smiles, sits, Nov. 25, 1942 in Oran after American forces occupied the Mediterranean port in French...