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German prisoners await their turn to take off aboard a United States army transport plane at an advance air base in North Africa. Some of these were parachutists and tank corps men who fought with Rommel's Afrika Korps

German prisoners await their turn to take off aboard a United States a...

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Presiding American and French officers who delivered and received 13 P-40 Warhawks. Left to right: Lieutenant General Mendigal, commander-in-chief of the French air forces in Africa; Major General Carl Spaatz, commander of the Allied air forces in North Africa; Major General Bergeret, assistant French high commissioner, and Major General James Doolittle, commander of United States Air Forces

Presiding American and French officers who delivered and received 13 P...

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Line-up of 13 P-40 United States Warhawks which Americans recently presented to the Fighting French air forces at an airport somewhere in North Africa on behalf of the people of the United States

Line-up of 13 P-40 United States Warhawks which Americans recently pre...

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Cook at an advanced base in the North African desert sits down to eat after the men have finished

Cook at an advanced base in the North African desert sits down to eat ...

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These French airplane engines were undamaged in the attack and are in good working order. They will now be used against the Axis by the French air force in North Africa

These French airplane engines were undamaged in the attack and are in ...

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Portrait photo of North Africa (?) three women standing

Portrait photo of North Africa (?) three women standing

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

N. Africa (?) two women posed with flowers

N. Africa (?) two women posed with flowers

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

Three members of the Free French foreign legion who distinguished themselves in the battle at Bir Hacheim in the Western desert. They are from Senegal, Equatorial Africa, and Madagascar, respectively

Three members of the Free French foreign legion who distinguished them...

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N. Africa (?) girl and woman carrying baskets

N. Africa (?) girl and woman carrying baskets

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

A Flying Fortress of the Northwest African strategic Air force scoring a direct hit in a 400-foot Italian liner which had been converted into a troop carrier. The action took place in the Mediterranean sea

A Flying Fortress of the Northwest African strategic Air force scoring...

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Lieutenant Robert Byrnes, twenty-six, Saint Louis, Missouri, who now has three ME-109 emeny fighter planes to his credit, is shown here with Major Glade B. Bilby of Skidmore, Missouri, as the pass some time with a checker game. Major Bilby is commanding officer of Sixty-Fourth fighter squadron of the Fifty-Seventh fighter group

Lieutenant Robert Byrnes, twenty-six, Saint Louis, Missouri, who now h...

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Operations in North Africa by Allied air forces. Mitchell B026 bombers of the United States Army Air Forces and Baltimore bombers of the South African air forces flying together in formation on their way to attack Rommel's position in North Africa

Operations in North Africa by Allied air forces. Mitchell B026 bombers...

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Crews of an American bomber squadron somewhere along the African coast take on their cargo of calories while their planes are being refueled and fresh bombs and ammunition loaded for delivery across the Mediterranean

Crews of an American bomber squadron somewhere along the African coast...

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Free French anti-aircraft gunner in action in the Western desert

Free French anti-aircraft gunner in action in the Western desert

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German airmen captured in northwest Africa after their bombing plane had been shot down by Allied fliers. The pilot, left, wears the Iron Cross. He and the crew member with him tried to escape after a crash landing

German airmen captured in northwest Africa after their bombing plane h...

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Carte de la Barbarie, de la Nigritie, et de la Guinée /

Carte de la Barbarie, de la Nigritie, et de la Guinée /

Relief shown pictorially. "Avec privilege, Aout 1707." "The words 'premier geographe du Roi' added in the title ... [indicate] that [a map] could not have been issued before 1718 when [De l'Isle] was appointed ... More

N. Africa (?) three women carrying pots on their heads

N. Africa (?) three women carrying pots on their heads

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

A watchful U.S. destroyer cuts through the wake of a U.S. aircraft carrrier on patrol as a setting sun brings to a close the first day of fighting off North Africa

A watchful U.S. destroyer cuts through the wake of a U.S. aircraft car...

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Wounded German prisoners being loaded aboard a United States Army transport plane at an advance air base in North Africa

Wounded German prisoners being loaded aboard a United States Army tran...

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An Allied airbase somewhere in Nothern Africa. Four American airmen of the Bombardment Group, United States Army, Ninth Air Force, take just enough time out to receive their citations while their bonber is being refueled. They are shown as they lined up beside their B-24 just before General Auby C. Strickland made the awards. Left to right: Lieutenant Lorey H. Woods, pilot, 1381 Worton Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio; Staff Sergeant Steve E. Rambert, twenty-one, gunner, 2321 North Parkade, Chicago Illinois; Technical Sergeant Wallace Armstrong, nineteen, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 3515 Simon Avenue; Lieutenant Albert P. Miska, navigator bombardier, twenty-five, 449 Compton Avenue, Perth Amboy, New Jersey

An Allied airbase somewhere in Nothern Africa. Four American airmen of...

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An Allied airbase somewhere in North Africa. Leroy H. Woods, 1381 Worton Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio, pilot of a B-25 Bonber as he received his air medal for gallentry under fire at El Alamein from General Auby C. Strickland

An Allied airbase somewhere in North Africa. Leroy H. Woods, 1381 Wort...

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The deadly marksmanship of the United States Army Air Force bombers is graphically illustrated in this picture just received from North Africa. It shows direct hits on harbor warehouses and terminals and a pierhead at Sousse, the important Axis-held Mediterranean seaport in Tunisia

The deadly marksmanship of the United States Army Air Force bombers is...

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Scene in a prison yard after the armistice in North Africa as French soldiers, sailors, and native antagonists were being freed

Scene in a prison yard after the armistice in North Africa as French s...

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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. This was once a hangar at Castel Benito Airdrome

Enemy air equipment and installations took a heavy pounding from bombe...

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Tail section of a French plane in front of damaged buildings and hangars at a North African air base which was captured by the Allies

Tail section of a French plane in front of damaged buildings and hanga...

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West Africa. 5-63. - Public domain geographic map

West Africa. 5-63. - Public domain geographic map

Scale 1:5,000,000. "37044." Includes inset and key map. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

Carte de la Barbarie, le la Nigritie et del la Guinée /

Carte de la Barbarie, le la Nigritie et del la Guinée /

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. Wrecked Axis aircraft, victims of bombing and strafing lie piled up on Castel Nenito Airdrome, awaiting arrival of expert salvage crews to denude the wreckage of any usable parts, the remainder to be turned into scrap.

Enemy air equipment and installations took a heavy pounding from bombe...

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Maghreb and Sahel. Historic map, Library of Congress

Maghreb and Sahel. Historic map, Library of Congress

"791663AI (G00624) 8-10." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Gvinea propia, nec non Nigritiæ vel Terræ Nigrorvm maxima pars : geographis hodiernis dicta utraq[ue] Æthiopia inferior, & hujus quidem pars australis /

Gvinea propia, nec non Nigritiæ vel Terræ Nigrorvm maxima pars : geogr...

Covers West Africa from Gabon in the south to Niger, Mali, and Mauritania in the north. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image... More

A map shewing the progress of, discovery & improvement, in the geography of North Africa /

A map shewing the progress of, discovery & improvement, in the geograp...

Relief shown pictorially. "The double line of dots shews Mr. Park's route in the West; Mr. Bruce's in the East." "Published according to Act of Parliament by james Rennell, May 25th, 1798." "J. Walker, sculp." ... More

N. Africa (?) market scene. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

N. Africa (?) market scene. 19th century, Library of Congress collecti...

Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).

American troops in North Africa sample the wares of a fruit vendor. Left to right: Sergeant Hardy Patillo of Austin, Texas; Captain Louis Dubcak of Lexington, Texas; Sergeant Adan Garza of Laredo, Texas; and Private First Class Herbert Lipsey of Dade City, Florida

American troops in North Africa sample the wares of a fruit vendor. Le...

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Free French artillerymen with their trench mortar somewhere in the Western desert

Free French artillerymen with their trench mortar somewhere in the Wes...

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With the aid of a little canvas, and an obsolete French bomber, an American task force has set up a very practical mess kitchen in North Africa. Left to right are Lieutenant E. T. McBoon of Canton, Illinois, and Ssergeant C. W. Moore of Houston, Texas, inspecting the kitchen. Corporal William G. Warrington, a cook from Jefferson, Texas, is preparing the meal

With the aid of a little canvas, and an obsolete French bomber, an Ame...

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Major-General James Doolittle, United States Army Aair Forces, Major-General Bergeret of the Fighting French high command, who accepted 13 P-40 Warhawks form the Americans on behalf of the Fighting French, and Major General Carl Spaatz, United States Air Force commmander in North Africa, who made the presentation. General Spaatz is in command of Allied air forces in the North African theater of operations

Major-General James Doolittle, United States Army Aair Forces, Major-G...

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Northern Africa and the Middle East.

Northern Africa and the Middle East.

"803397AI (G02378) 6-09." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Northern Africa and the Middle East.

Northern Africa and the Middle East.

"801630 (546325) 12-90." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Lieutenant Robert "Rocky" Byrnes (in the plane), twenty-six, Saint Louis, Missouri, flying with the Sixty-fourth Squadron of the Fifty-seventy Fighter Group is seen here as he landed after destroying three ME-109's. The Fifty-seventh United States Fighter Group of the Ninth Air Force destroyed seventy-four enemy planes in the same action. Lieutenant Byrnes now has four enemy fighter planes to his credit. He was a pro baseball player with Cincy farm system before the war. Captain Carl A. Nelson, Los Angeles, California, intelligence agen for Sixty-fourth, getting details of Byrnes' part in action

Lieutenant Robert "Rocky" Byrnes (in the plane), twenty-six, Saint Lou...

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Graves of six American soldiers killed in action in North Africa

Graves of six American soldiers killed in action in North Africa

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Operations in North Africa by Allied air forces. A Royal Air Force high speed launch being directed by a low-flying Hurricane to the spot where a United States pilot is down off the North African Coast

Operations in North Africa by Allied air forces. A Royal Air Force hig...

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The recapture of Bardia: Rescued British and New Zealand troops

The recapture of Bardia: Rescued British and New Zealand troops

British and New Zealand soldiers rescued by the British forces who recaptured Bardia expressing their delight by dancing to music supplied by an Italian gramophone. They were held prisoners for five weeks. [Sum... More

Bomber crews of the United States Army Ninth Air Force are given a chalk talk before they take off on a mission over Axis Territory. These are some of the heavy bonber groups which are disrupting Axis shipping in the Mediterranean. Giving the blackboard talk is Major Frank W. Delong, squadron commander.

Bomber crews of the United States Army Ninth Air Force are given a cha...

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L'Afrique, ou Lybie ulterieure : ou font le Saara, or desért, le pays des Negres, la Guinee, et les pays circonv., tirée en partie de Sanut, et de l'Arabe du Nubie : en partie de diverses cartes veues, jusques a present : la coste de Negres, et Guinee, &c. est apres les observations de Samuel Blomart /

L'Afrique, ou Lybie ulterieure : ou font le Saara, or desért, le pays ...

French and American officers saluting during flag raising ceremonies somewhere in North Africa. First row, right to left: the French General Boiseau; American Major General Lloyd R. Fredendhall; third party unidentified

French and American officers saluting during flag raising ceremonies s...

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Exterminators lived up to their name. Lieutenant John Stefanik (left) of Chicopee, Massachusetts, and Lieutenant Charles Leaf, of South Orange, New Jersey, display the insignia of their Sixty-Sixth Squadron, one of the units of the Fifty-Seventh Fighter Group, United States Air Force. When the Fifty-Seventh knocked seventy-four Axis planes out of the skies in one air battle, the Exterminators accounted for more that twenty-five

Exterminators lived up to their name. Lieutenant John Stefanik (left) ...

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Gvinea propia, nec non Nigritiæ vel Terræ Nigrorvm maxima pars : geographis hodiernis dicta utraq[ue] Æthiopia inferior, & hujus quidem pars australis /

Gvinea propia, nec non Nigritiæ vel Terræ Nigrorvm maxima pars : geogr...

Covers West Africa from Gabon in the south to Niger, Mali, and Mauritania in the north. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image... More

A short parade after a flag raising ceremony, with French troops participating somewhere in North Africa

A short parade after a flag raising ceremony, with French troops parti...

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These four members of the crew of "Snow White" a B-24 bomber, of the United States Army Ninth Air Force, have completed 300 hours combat time in the same bomber they brought to the Mediterranean theater from America. Under the protecting wing of Snow White are (left to right) Technical Sergeant John A. Harkell, Captain Rolo C. Lawrence, Sargeant George A. Brunnell and Sergeant Kermit E. Gregory

These four members of the crew of "Snow White" a B-24 bomber, of the U...

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American and French officers and United States enlisted men hold an Old Glory and the Tricolor just before a flag raising ceremony to commemorate the unity of the fighting allies in North Africa

American and French officers and United States enlisted men hold an Ol...

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Major-Generals Spaatz, Bergeret, and Doolittle

Major-Generals Spaatz, Bergeret, and Doolittle

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Her left wing and engine nacelle riddled by anit-aircraft fire, this B-26 (Martin Marauder) of the United States Army Air forces flies back and makes a safe belly landing after a bombing raid in Tunisia

Her left wing and engine nacelle riddled by anit-aircraft fire, this B...

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Operations in North Africa by Allied air forces. A light bomber of the South African air force comes in to bomb a large enemy barracks in Mareth village. Low clouds are above the target area. In the right foreground, bombs dropped by the previous aircraft can be seen exploding on the target

Operations in North Africa by Allied air forces. A light bomber of the...

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Operations in North Africa by Allied air forces. A formation of Spitfires on interception patrol over De Djerba Island, off Gabes, on their way to the Mareth Line area

Operations in North Africa by Allied air forces. A formation of Spitfi...

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U.S. Foreign Service Posts, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs (NEA).

U.S. Foreign Service Posts, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Aff...

Scale not given. "564063." "Source: Office of the Geographer; April, 1975." Also shows northern Africa. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2