Brigadier General Jimmy Doolittle walks with WWI fighter Ace Eddie Rickenbacker and author Ernest Hemmingway during a tour of North African bases, this time visiting the 414th Bombardment Squadron in Tunisia, 1943Geschutzwagen Lorraine Schlepper 15 cm sFH 13 Field Gun on a French chassis that has been abandoned in North Africa, 1943.SdKfz 138-139 Marder III with Russian 7.62cm anti-tank gun abandoned in North Africa, 1943.Axis prisoners of war are herded out of the city as Allied armies enter Tunis, Tunisia, May 1943
Brigadier General Jimmy Doolittle walks with WWI fighter Ace Eddie Rickenbacker and author Ernest Hemmingway during a tour of North African bases, this time visiting the 414th Bombardment Squadron in Tunisia, 1943Geschutzwagen Lorraine Schlepper 15 cm sFH 13 Field Gun on a French chassis that has been abandoned in North Africa, 1943.SdKfz 138-139 Marder III with Russian 7.62cm anti-tank gun abandoned in North Africa, 1943.Axis prisoners of war are herded out of the city as Allied armies enter Tunis, Tunisia, May 1943
Dismantled French AMC 35 S medium tank, Porto Farina, Tunisia, May 1943; two more AMC 35 S tanks and a Valentine Mk III tank in backgroundUnited States Army troops enter Tunis, Tunisia, May 1943.US Army African-American Air Corps officers, Fez, French Morocco, 12 May 1943: Lt Col Benjamin Davis, Capt H. Johnson, Capt Jones, Lt Thompson, Lt Carter, Lt Lawrence, Lt CurrieInspecting North African bases, Winston Churchill attends a USAAF 414th Bombardment Squadron briefing at Chateau-dun-du-Rhumel Airfield, Algeria, 31 May 1943; note Brooke, Marshall, Eden
Dismantled French AMC 35 S medium tank, Porto Farina, Tunisia, May 1943; two more AMC 35 S tanks and a Valentine Mk III tank in backgroundUnited States Army troops enter Tunis, Tunisia, May 1943.US Army African-American Air Corps officers, Fez, French Morocco, 12 May 1943: Lt Col Benjamin Davis, Capt H. Johnson, Capt Jones, Lt Thompson, Lt Carter, Lt Lawrence, Lt CurrieInspecting North African bases, Winston Churchill attends a USAAF 414th Bombardment Squadron briefing at Chateau-dun-du-Rhumel Airfield, Algeria, 31 May 1943; note Brooke, Marshall, Eden
Three soldiers manning US Army 90th Coast ArtilleryJames Doolittle awarding the Purple Heart to the crew of B-17E Flying Fortress bomber Remains of a merchant ship that exploded, causing a fire on another British freighter, off Algiers, Algeria, 17 Jul 1943
Three soldiers manning US Army 90th Coast Artillery's radar, Casablanca, French Morocco, 19 Jun 1943; note the three men were African-AmericanJames Doolittle awarding the Purple Heart to the crew of B-17E Flying Fortress bomber 'Sweet Chariot', Chateau-dun-du-Rhumel Airfield, Algeria, Jul 1943Remains of a merchant ship that exploded, causing a fire on another British freighter, off Algiers, Algeria, 17 Jul 1943
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