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Enemy air equipment and installations took a heavy pounding from bombers of the United States Army Air forces as they pursued Marshal Erwin Rommel's retreating Afrika Korps through Libya and Tripoli to the Tunisian coast. Trucks rolling along the road to Tripoli after the Allied victory there. In the foreground is an American Jeep passing an area still containing mines which the engineers passed up during Marshal Rommel's swift retreat

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Enemy air equipment and installations took a heavy pounding from bombers of the United States Army Air forces as they pursued Marshal Erwin Rommel's retreating Afrika Korps through Libya and Tripoli to the Tunisian coast. Trucks rolling along the road to Tripoli after the Allied victory there. In the foreground is an American Jeep passing an area still containing mines which the engineers passed up during Marshal Rommel's swift retreat

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Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

date_range

Date

01/01/1943

place

Location

Ghadāmis (Libya), 30.13333, 9.50000

Google Map of 30.133333333333333, 9.5

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Source

Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html