Operation TORCH, Invasion of N. Africa, Nov. 1942.
transports off Oran. Two landing craft assault and one landing craft personnel (ramped)
can be seen in the foreground. They are LCA 85, LCA 394 and LCP (R) 838.
Photo Credit - RN Lt. J.E. Russell. Imperial War Museum (IWM)
Introduction: A good many photographs found in books or on the internet related to the Allied cause during WW2 are part of the vast collection belonging to the Imperial War Museum, U.K. On just about every front, photographers could be found near the front lines - aboard troop ships, landing craft, on the beaches or in foxholes, etc. For example, a few worked upon the shores of North Africa when troops came ashore aboard LCAs, LCMs or other crafts.
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Displayed below are a few pictures taken by Royal Navy photographers that may assist those searching for more information about the role of Canadians in Combined Operations during Operation TORCH. Accompanying captions are found with the photos at IWM:
A12634. A destroyer laying a smoke screen round one of the transports off Oran.
Photo Credit - RN Photographer Lt. J.E. Russell, IWM
A12636. American troops before going ashore. RN Photographer Lt. J.E. Russell, IWM
The following heading accompanies several photographs:
NORTH AFRICAN OPERATIONS. BRITAIN'S ROYAL NAVY HAD A MAJOR ROLE IN THE WORLD'S GREATEST COMBINED OPERATION WHEN THE 500 SHIP CONVOY SAFELY TRANSPORTED ALLIED TROOPS TO FRENCH NORTH AFRICA, WHERE SIMULTANEOUS LANDINGS WERE MADE AT STRATEGIC POINTS. NOVEMBER 1942.
A12638. Photographed from the deck of the ship that they are disembarking from,
American troops can be seen getting into a landing craft personnel (ramped).
Link - Russell, J E (Lt.) IWM
American troops can be seen getting into a landing craft personnel (ramped).
Link - Russell, J E (Lt.) IWM
A12647. American troops manning their landing craft assault from a doorway
in the side of the liner REINA DEL PACIFICO. Two of the landing craft are
numbered LCA 428 and LCA 447. RN Photographer Lt. F.A. Hudson, IWM
A12648. American troops exiting their landing craft assault on the beach at Are,
near Oran. Some of the ships of that convoy can be seen in the distance.
RN Photographer Lt. F.A. Hudson, IWM
A12649. American troops landing on the beach at Arzeu, near Oran, from a
landing craft assault (LCA 26), some of them are carrying boxes of supplies.
RN Photographer Lt. F.A. Hudson, IWM
A12650. Smoke screens off Arzeu, near Oran. RN Photographer Lt. F.A. Hudson, IWM
A12651. Landing craft off Arzeu. RN Photographer Lt. F.A. Hudson, IWM
A12652. American troops in a landing craft. RN photographer.
RN Photographer Lt. F.A. Hudson, IWM
A12654. General view of the convoy en route for Gibraltar bathed in sunlight
and stretching into the distance. RN Photographer Lt. F.A. Hudson, IWM
A12658. American soldiers tending to a wounded native soldier on
the beach at Arzeu. RN Photographer Lt. F.A. Hudson, IWM
Please link to Photographs: Charles 'Chuck' Rose, RCNVR and Combined Ops
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