American soldiers disembark from the LCA landing craft ashore during Operation Torch - the Allied invasion of French North Africa; 8-16, November 1942.  

French North Africa

American soldiers of the 1st Ranger Battalion disembark in the port city of Arzew, 25 miles east of Oran in Algeria during Operation Torch.
Operation Torch (8-16 November 1942) was an Anglo–American invasion of French North Africa as a three-pronged attack, aimed at Casablanca (Western), Oran (Center) and Algiers (Eastern), in advance of a rapid move on Tunis. 


Wading ashore

German soldiers taken POW in Normandy, France; August 1944. 