U.S. 1st Division soldiers in Africa during the North African Campaign of World War 2. A soldier examines an Italian gun. U.S. gun crew loads a 155mm howitzer under a camouflage net.
U.S. 1st Division soldiers in Africa during the North African Campaign of World War II. Adobe-walled village in a desert. A U.S. Army jeep loaded with troops drives on the village road. Natives wrapped in sheets stand near the road. An oasis and mountains in the background. The natives mill around in the village.
U.S. 1st Division soldiers in Africa during the North African Campaign of World War II. The soldiers in a mess line. A U.S. Army sergeant reads New York Tax Return blank and scratches his head.
A map shows French Tunisia in North Africa, during World War 2. A ship at a Tunisian port. German and Italian soldiers transfer boxes from the ships to waiting trucks. Soldiers roll and align barrels. German soldiers load and fire an antiaircraft gun. A German fighter plane defends material stockpiled in North Africa. Smoke due to bombardment by the aircraft. A truck on the road. British aircraft is downed and British pilot captured. Axis soldiers folding up the parachute of the British prisoner of war. The captured British pilot near the wrecked British aircraft.
Invasion of North Africa during World War 2. Door of a large landing ship opens and settles to ground on shore of North Africa. U.S. infantry file out of the ship onto rocky shore and proceed to climb steep road upward towards high ground above. A landing ship tank (LST) opens its doors and U.S. Army vehicles drive out, including trucks, jeeps (one needing a push) and half tracks.
United States soldiers around a tent at a check post in North Africa. A United States flag near the tent. Mountains in the background. A man stands on a bridge and looks over. Three African children in a green grassy field. Native straw huts in the background. A road flanked with trees on either side. (World War II period).