Picture Gallery for the North African Campaign, 1940-1943

Galleries - Tanks - Royal Navy Ships - Japanese Ships - US Navy Ships - German Ships - French Ships - RAF - USAAF - Maps

British Army - German Army - Italian Army - United States Army - Operation Compass - Siege of Tobruk, 1941 - Operation Crusader - Battle of Gazala - Siege of Tobruk, 1942 - Aftermath of Second Battle of El Alamein - Operation Torch - Mareth Line - Tunisia

British Army

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  M3 Stuart Light Tank, North Africa, 1941
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  Changing Track on M3 Grant, North Africa,1942
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  Train load of M3 Stuart Light Tanks, Egypt, 1942
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  Air Marshal Tedder and General Auchinleck, Middle East War Council, 1942
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  Crusader I or Crusader II, North Africa, 1942
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  Crusader I cruiser tank on tank transport, North Africa, 1942
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  4.5in gun Mark 2, El Alamein, 1942
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  M3 Stuart light tank passes El Himeimat, 1942
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  General Alexander and General Montgomery, 1942
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  British sentry watching Qattara Depression, 1942
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  Humber Armoured Cars from the left, North Africa
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  Humber Armoured Car Patrol, Libya
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  Allied Vehicles being unload on Cyprus
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  Unloading Australian Wheat in Egypt
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  Unloading Bombs for North Africa
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  Unloading Cargo at Benghazi

Germany Army

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  Sd Kfz 222 Armoured Car, Tripoli, 1941
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  German Infantry, Tripoli, 1941
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  88mm FlaK Gun, North Africa, 1941

Italian Army

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  Macchi M.C.202 Folgore shot down in Africa, 1942

United States Army

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  US Soldiers on move, Egypt 1942

Operation Compass

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  L 3-33 Light Tank, Sidi Barrani, 1940
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  M 11-39 Medium Tanks, Nibiewa, 1940
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  Italian POWs taken at Sidi Barrani, 1940
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  6th Australian Division, Bardia, Late 1940

Siege of Tobruk, 1941

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  Caves used during Siege of Tobruk, 1941

Operation Crusader

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  M 13-40 Medium Tank surrenders, Operation Crusader
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  Derna Airfield after RAF Raids, 1941
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  Axis POWs in Cairo, 1941
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  Air Vice-Marshal A. Coningham and Lt Gen N.M. Ritchie
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  Rajput Rifles clear Cyrene, December 1941
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  South Africa troops in Benghazi, December 1941
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  British Troops enter Giovanni Berta, December 1941
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  German Prisoners of War near Bardia, December 1941

Battle of Gazala

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  25-pounder field guns, Knightsbridge Area, battle of Gazala
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  Bir Hakeim after the battle of Gazala

Siege of Tobruk, 1942

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  Air Raid on Tobruk, 9-10 July 1942
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  German attack on Tobruk, 20 or 21 July 1942
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  Four Ghurkas who escaped from Tobruk, 1942

Aftermath of Second Battle of El Alamein

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  Italian and German Signposts, Mersa Matruh, 1942
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  Mersa Matruh from the Air
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  Tobruk Reoccupied after El Alamein
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  Benghazi from the Air, c.1942
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  British POWs freed at Derna, November 1942
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  Bomb Damage at Mersa Matruh, late 1942
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  Generals Masina, Brunetti and Bignami, captured at El Alamein

Operation Torch

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  USS Suwanne (CVE-27) and USS Brooklyn (CL-40) during Operation Torch
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  Deckload of P-40Fs on USS Chenango (CVE-28)
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  Hanger full of P-40Fs on USS Chenango (CVE-28)
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  Crew of USS Santee (CVE-28) exercising on deck
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  SBDs and F4Fs on USS Santee (CVE-28) during Operation Torch

Mareth Line

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  Barbed Wire on Mareth Line
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  Eighth Army Bombardment of Mareth Line
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  British Troops in Anti-Tank Ditch on Mareth Line
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  Strongpoint on the Mareth Line
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  Trench on the Mareth Line

Tunisia

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  Damaged Panzer IV ausf G, Tunisia, 1943