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Wife of unnamed major shown in her back yard with the family while washing clothes on August 13, 1942. (AP Photo)

Italian prisoners taken during the fighting in the El Alamein area, far from despondent as they tuck in to a meal of

Photo shows Italian prisoners of war captured in the El Alamein area entering the

After the Australians had advanced five miles along the coast from Alamein, the enemy counter attacked with tanks shown. Unfortunately for them, they...

Members of a Bren Carrier platoon of the rifle brigade in Libya, Aug. 3, 1942, British Eighth Army, watch a dump go up at Hamra, about 30 miles from t...

Troops from New Zealand, swinging into the battle for Egypt, prepare slit trenches on the El Alamein front on Aug. 3, 1942. Small trenches, like famed...

Smoke and sand sweep back toward members of a New Zealand artillery unit on the Egyptian Battlefield shown on August 3, 1942 as their gun roars. This...

A New Zealand medical officer, right, examines a wounded German prisoner, captured in the El Alamein area on the Egyptian battlefront, August 3, 1942....

American field service ambulance men chat beside one of their vehicles after a dash with New Zealand troops through a German encirclement in Egypt on...

New Zealand soldiers on the El Alamein front in Egypt on Aug. 3, 1942, man

Libya royal artillery field force has been constantly under fire since it arrived at its position a short time ago. The unit took part in the battle o...

Picture shows a U.S.

Mahatma Gandhi, center, confers with leaders of the All-India Congress Party, Aug. 1942, location unknown. With him are Maulana Aboul Kalan Azad, ri...

Scots guard in trenches in new positions in the El Alame in area, July 29, 1942. (AP Photo)

Guards moving forward under cover of smoke screen, July 27, 1942, and protected by the tanks. In addition there is the natural screen made by the terr...

Wrecked motor units greeted the Nazi troopers who drove the British from their strong position at Fort Birhacheim, Libya, July 17, 1942. An Axis patro...

A new type of enemy vehicle-cycle track motor used to tow small guns as well as to carry a few men is captured from the enemy, July 13, 1942 in Libya....

The South African air force wrecked these axis supply trucks during the second British offensive, July 13, 1942 in Libya. Bombs, dropped by the planes...

Crew members of a U.S. built

A British Gun crew fires A 25 pound Gun against concentration of Axis troops and supplies some where in the Libyan Desert before Marshal Erwin Rommel?...

Senior 8th Army officers paid a visit to Brigadier headquarters, July 6, 1942. Among the visitors were Lieut. General Willoughby Norrie and Major Gene...

Although a bomb has just exploded ahead, the driver of this machine in a British supply column in the Libyan Desert must keep right on driving or he'd...

Their wounds having been dressed, British casualties in the Libyan Desert , July 3, 1942 fighting turn to a fellow soldier for a light for their cigar...

Officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps Administer to a wounded British Soldier on an operating table beside an ambulance somewhere in the Libyan Des...

An injured British Ambulance driver is led from his blazing vehicle (smoke at right is coming from the ambulance) by two comrades, following an axis a...

Prisoners at Elmira, N.Y. Reformatory, seen July 2, 1942, stand at attention during a drill session being held to train these men for active duty with...

Master SGT. Kindle Walston of Louisville, KY., stops his jeep to ask an Egyptian traffic cop directions, June 26, 1942 . Walston, who has been in the...

Shown in photo is time out for an injury in a soccer game between British Soldiers and their Eritrea, June 20, 1942 in Eritrea. The Italian goalie has...

An Eritrean police sergeant smartly tosses a rifle back to a recruit in the ranks he training in Asmara, Eritrea, June 20, 1942. (AP Photo)

A taxi driver clears out the clinkers from a charcoal burner on the back of his cab, June 20, 1942 in Eritrea. The burner generates combustion gases,...

Behind the sunglasses is one of the Italian black shirt captains held prisoner by the British in Asmara, Eritrea, June 20, 1942. He is an Italian Nobl...

These smiling Italian Red Cross workers are POWS (Prisoners Of War) in the Italian prison camp run by the Allies in Asmara, capital of Eritrea, June 2...

American-Built medium tanks, dubbed

This is the library of Columbia University in New York, seen May 22, 1942. (AP Photo)

Unidentified Marines pose with Columbia Network's songstress Kate Smith, center, during her recent appearance with the Navy Band on CBS

This idyllic scene in Fremont County near Riverton, Wyoming, seen April 23, 1942, was produced by the hand of man. All the trees here were planted in...

Truck parking field at Malaka Belgian troop base on Apr. 13, 1942 in Ethiopia, during Belgian campaign of world war II. From Belgian Info Center.(AP P...

Belgian Congo air force Camouflaged liaison plane shown here on April 13, 1942 from Beligian Info. Center. (AP Photo)

Belgian Congo troops are inspected at a Sudanese village during the Belgian campaign against Italian, Apr. 13, 1942 in Ethiopia, during second world w...

Belgian Congo fuseliers leaving for the Ethiopian front during the Second World War shown on April 13, 1942. (AP Photo)

Dorothy Schiff, wife of George Backer, assumes her duties as publisher of the New York Post and supervises make up of the first page with compositor J...

Experienced in desert weather flying, a British pilot lands an American made Kittyhawk fighter plane of the Sharknose Squadron in a Libyan Sandstorm,...

This collection of axis trucks and transport units was gathered, Feb. 28, 1942 at Bardia, Libya, after British raids had helped to make the post unten...

"Buss" Mascot with an R.A.F. Squadron stationed in Libya, Feb. 15, 1942, takes a few personal liberties with the pilot of an American-Built Tomahawk p...

This is a gold mine in Kalgoorlie, western Australia, seen Feb. 11, 1942. (AP Photo)

An American-Built Tomahawk Royal American Air Force Squadron, Feb. 8, 1942 in Tobruk. According to the British Source, patrols of this type ship have...

Watchful waiting is the password at this desolated outpost near Solum, February 5, 1942, strategic point on the Egyptian side of the Libyan border. De...

A member of the Royal Air Force ground crew puts his back to work to lift a heavy bomb into the rack of a British plane at Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 2, 1942....

A British Blenheim Bomber has its own little Island in the Libyan Desert, Jan. 30, 1942 after heavy rains turned the flying field into a virtual lake....

Members of the Royal Air Force