8th Army in Tripoli. At a British 8th Army fuel depot in the Western desert of North Africa a truckload of British Tommies stops while the driver refuels. Squares of gasoline cans, evenly spaced, are spread out across the flat land, as far as the eye can reach in preparation for the Tripoli campaign in North Africa
Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Image source: Yank Magazine photo.
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
DDE: doesn't match lot card; more than one
Film copy on SIS roll 32, frame 1265.
Tags
Date
01/01/1940
Location
africa
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain