Photos Taken in Algeria | World War II Database

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US B-17F “All-American” of 414th BS, 97th BG on the ground at its base in Biskra, Algeria showing severe damage from a mid-air collision with a German fighter over Tunis, Tunisia, 1 Feb 1943. Photo 6 of 8.	Inspecting North African bases, Winston Churchill attends a USAAF 414th Bombardment Squadron briefing at Chateau-dun-du-Rhumel Airfield, Algeria, 31 May 1943; note Brooke, Marshall, Eden	Winston Churchill presiding over the Allied Planning Conference, Algiers, Algeria, 4 Jun 1943; note Eden, Brooke, Tedder, Cunningham, Alexander, Marshall, Eisenhower, and Montgomery	British General Harold Alexander and US Rear Admiral Alan Kirk aboard USS Ancon off Mers El Kébir, Algeria, 23 Jun 1943

British General Harold Alexander, US Lieutenant General George Patton, and US Rear Admiral Alan Kirk aboard USS Ancon off Mers El Kébir, Algeria, 23 Jun 1943	James Doolittle awarding the Purple Heart to the crew of B-17E Flying Fortress bomber 'Sweet Chariot', Chateau-dun-du-Rhumel Airfield, Algeria, Jul 1943	Wounded Italian soldiers from the Sicily invasion being transferred from a ship to waiting WC54 ambulances at Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, July 1943	Joint Operations Room aboard USS Ancon while at Oran, French Algeria, 3 Jul 1943

Navy Operations Room aboard USS Ancon while at Oran, French Algeria, 3 Jul 1943	Status board in the Joint Operations Room aboard USS Ancon while at Oran, French Algeria, 3 Jul 1943	Troop transport USS Susan B. Anthony (converted luxury liner) in Mers-el-Kebir, Oran, Algeria preparing for the invasion of Sicily, 5 Jul 1943. Note LCVP landing craft hanging from her davits and stowed on her foredeck.	Lieutenant General Mark Clark and Navy Rear Admiral Alan Kirk aboard command ship USS Ancon during the Sicily operations, Mers-el-Kebir, Oran, Algeria, 18 Jul 1943.

Dwight Eisenhower and George Marshall meeting in Algiers, Algeria, Sep 1943	Sir Andrew Cunningham, Dwight Eisenhower, Henry Hewitt, and Walter Bedell Smith at Allied Forces Headquarters in Hotel St. George, Algiers, Algeria, 16 Oct 1943.	USS Iowa delivering President Franklin Roosevelt to Africa for transit on to the Tehran Conference, Mers El Kébir, Oran, Algeria, 20 Nov 1943. Note French cruiser Jeanne d’Arc just beyond Iowa. See Note below.	Ten B-24 Liberators of the 451st Bomb Group line up for take-off from Telergma, Algeria bound for their new base at Gioia del Colle, Italy, 20 Jan 1944.

K-class airship with Blimp Squadron ZP-14 on a stop-over in Oran, Algeria, 2 Dec 1944.