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U.S. troops advancing in Oran, North Africa / photo by U.S. Army Signal Corps. – Historic Photo Reproduction

U.S. troops advancing in Oran, North Africa / photo by U.S. Army Signal Corps., 1942 Nov. 18. — historic photograph
U.S. troops advancing in Oran, North Africa / photo by U.S. Army Signal Corps., 1942 Nov. 18.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of U.S. troops advancing in Oran, North Africa / photo by U.S. Army Signal Corps.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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U.S. troops advancing in Oran, North Africa / photo by U.S. Army Signal Corps.

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The picture shows American troops moving forward in Oran, a port city on Algeria's Mediterranean coast, in November 1942, just over a week after Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of French North Africa, began on November 8. The U.S. Army Signal Corps made the photograph, and the military photographers of that era documented campaigns like this one for official records and wartime publicity. Oran was a key objective because its harbor and airfields offered a foothold for controlling the Mediterranean and supplying later operations in Tunisia. The image is a useful record of the early phase of the American fight in North Africa, when troops were still pushing inland from the coast.

Created / published1942 Nov. 18.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1940-1950.
NotesNo. SC 149993.
SubjectsWorld War, 1939-1945--Campaigns & battles--Algeria--Oran.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,288 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-181893

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