Fighting in North Africa (1942-1943)

British fighters begin their run and take off from an airfield in clouds of sand.

British vehicles and armoured vehicles move along roads during the offensive in North Africa in October 1942. British artillery fires, infantry advances under artillery cover.

British tanks attack, defeating German armoured vehicles.

American bombers fly (top).

Pilot in the cockpit.

View of the nose of an aircraft in flight.

Dropping bombs on enemy territory (top).

A squadron of American bombers approaches a target.

British gunners fire at the enemy.

British soldiers lie down during artillery preparation.

Panorama and views of a British field hospital, providing assistance to the wounded and German prisoners of war.

Bombers drop bombs on a target.

View of the terrain with bomb explosions (top).

Sandstorm in the desert.

British soldiers attack in clouds of sand.

A British soldier escorts German prisoners.

Columns of German prisoners of war marching.

German prisoners of war in formation.

Commander of the British 8th Army General Montgomery stands with an officer near a tent.

British tanks marching through the desert.

British soldiers attacking the enemy.

The body of a dead German tanker curled out of a hatch.

Soldiers run past the corpses of German soldiers.

Corpses of German soldiers.

An American naval convoy on a campaign in the Mediterranean.

Landing party soldiers at a deck gun.

One of the ships moves toward the shore.

Soldiers and sailors on the deck of one of the landing transports (panorama, from above).

Ships with landing troops on a campaign.

Landing party soldiers and sailors on the decks of combat and landing ships.

Launched boats with landing troops on board head toward the shore during the American landing on the coast of North Africa on November 8, 1942. View of houses on the shore, landing troops before disembarking from a boat.

Panorama of the shore.

American troops disembarking from landing craft approaching the shore.

The ramp of one of the craft is folded back.

A car drives ashore.

Panorama of the bay with landing craft near the shore, landed soldiers on the shore.

American soldiers talk to a local resident.

Local residents help unload fuel.

Soldiers pass canisters of fuel along a chain.

Panorama of the shore during the unloading of landing craft.

Artillery preparation during military operations in Libya, British soldiers climb out of a trench to attack the enemy.

General Montgomery raises his binoculars to his eyes.

View of the battlefield.

Burning German vehicles.

Senior German officers surrender to the British.

A British motorcade moves along the road.

German prisoners of war in the back of passing trucks.

Movement of columns of German and Italian prisoners of war.