1st Armored Division, M7 Priest being unloaded at Algerian docks .The lack of specialized tank landing craft during the Operation TORCH landings necessitated the capture and use of ports and docks to unload heavy vehicles, such as this Howitzer Motor Carrier M7 being unloaded at the Algerian docks on Nov 9, 1942.(rudeerude)

M7 Priest being unloaded

African-American troops of the 784th Tank Battalion and their Sherman tanks preparing to cross the Rhine River, March 1945(rudeerude)

784th Tank Battalion

Tanks of an armored regiment are debarking from an LST (US77) in Anzio Harbor, Italy and adding strength to the U.S. Fifth Army (VI Corps) forces on the beachead.