Fighting in North Africa (1942-1943)

Panorama of part of the desert, camouflaged British armoured cars in caponiers (top).

British soldiers near a reconnaissance armoured car.

Orientation of the map using a compass.

British reconnaissance armoured car.

A scout conducts observation, sitting in the open hatch of the armoured car.

A British soldier drives flies off the back of a comrade cleaning his weapon.

A driver in a protective net on his head greasing the rear axle of the car.

British armoured cars in the desert.

A soldier spends the night on the sand near the wheel of an armoured car.

Night desert landscape.

The beginning of a sandstorm in the desert.

The movement of tank and motorised columns of German troops through the desert after the fall of Tobruk.

German dive bombers in flight.

Cattle grazing on the banks of the Nile.

Panorama of the central part of Cairo (top).

Panorama of the port in Alexandria (top).

Panorama of part of the coast of the Suez Canal.

Barbed wire on the seashore.

Panorama of marshy terrain.

Panorama of sand dunes.

The movement of a British military column.

General Auchinleck K. talks to an officer.

British soldiers dig trenches and ditches using picks and pneumatic jackhammers.

Laying minefields.

British sappers lay mines along the route of German troops.

Earthworks at a British anti-aircraft artillery firing position.

A bulldozer during the construction of defensive structures.

Filling sandbags.

A machine-gun crew sets up a machine gun in a position at the edge of the road.

A mortar crew at a firing position prepares to open fire.

A machine gunner in position.

Camouflaging a mortar with a net.

General Auchinleck with binoculars in the hatch of a truck.

The British artillery begins artillery preparation.

The German artillery returns fire.

German bombers are flying.

A German bomber approaches its target, British anti-aircraft gunners fire at enemy aircraft.

Bombs exploding on target (top).

German bombers approach target, British armoured cars under bombs.

British anti-aircraft gun crews repel enemy air raid.

Panorama of part of British infantry defensive position.

American planes taking off (panorama).

Anglo-American troop columns moving through the desert.

British artillery firing at the enemy, British infantry attacking the enemy.

Head-on tank battle.

A squadron of American bombers flying on a combat mission.

Pilots in the cockpit of an American plane.

View of the nose of an American bomber with the navigator's cockpit.

American aircraft bombing German troops in North Africa.

Falling bombs.

An American bomber squadron in flight.

Dropping bombs.

Explosions on the ground.

British gunners firing at the enemy.

British soldiers before the attack.

Panorama of a British field hospital.

Carrying a wounded man on a stretcher.

A medic gives a light to a wounded soldier.

Wounded British soldiers delivered to the hospital on stretchers (panorama).

American bombers dropping bombs.

Bombs flying down, craters from explosions (top).

A cloud of sand raised by a sandstorm.

British soldiers charge through clouds of sand.

Captured Germans march under escort.

A column of Italian prisoners of war.

German soldiers captured during the fighting in North Africa.

Commander of the 8th British Army General Montgomery with a staff officer.

British tanks drive through the desert.

Attacking British infantry.

The body of a dead German tanker hanging from the hatch of a disabled tank.

British soldiers attack the enemy.

Bodies of dead German soldiers.

American ships on a combat mission in November 1942. Marines at a deck gun.

One of the landing ships on a mission.

Faces of American soldiers (panorama).

American ships with troops on board are heading to the coast of North Africa.

Marines are taking depth measurements.

Panorama of a part of the American landing flotilla.

Landing craft being launched.

Views of the North African coast, craft heading to the shore.

Marines on a craft before landing.

Panorama of a part of the coast.

One of the craft approaches the shore.

Unloading vehicles via a ramp onto the beach.

American troops landing on the shore (panorama).

Local residents help American soldiers unload canisters of gasoline onto the shore.

Military cargo on the beach (panorama).

Military operations in Libya in January 1943. British infantry goes on the attack.

Artillery fires.

General Montgomery at the command post with binoculars in his hands.

View of the battlefield.

Burning German trucks.

A column of German prisoners of war moves along the road.

Columns of German and Italian prisoners of war are escorted near Tunisia in May 1943. Officers of the Allied armies during an operational conference to coordinate actions.

General Montgomery is among the participants in the conference.

Officers of tank units discuss joint actions.

Conducting combat operations at night, flashes from artillery fire.

British soldiers in a trench awaiting the signal to attack.

Beginning of artillery preparation.

British infantry rises to attack from the trenches.

Artillery is firing at the enemy.

Signalmen at a field telephone.

A British artillery crew prepares to open fire, a spotter officer with a map at the radio station.

Giving the command to open fire, beginning of artillery preparation.

British infantry goes on the attack, artillery is firing.

An officer clarifies the task to his subordinate during a battle.

A German dive bomber approaches the target, British soldiers lying under the exploding bombs.

Clouds of smoke from a bomb explosion.

British fighters are flying.

German dive bombers approach the target.

Air battles in the skies of North Africa, damaged planes fall.

British infantrymen rise to attack.

British fighters in battle.