Video re Combined Ops, "U.S. Troops in N. Africa"

Videos Provide Some Context and Flavour

American troops step into landing craft assault (LCAs) manned by Canadians from

a doorway in the side of the liner REINA DEL PACIFICO. Photo - WW2Today

The website entitled Critical Past has a deep catalogue of videos (thousands) and still images (millions), and many concern World War 2 and events and locations in which Canadians in Combined Operations were whole-heartedly involved. Though a price tag is attached to high-resolution videos and stock images, the public will find access to the same material, though in low-resolution and with the website's title displayed in the centre - distracting, but free.

Link to "U.S. Troops in North Africa" - U.S. troops carrying their necessary supplies embark a transport ship and unload supplies at a harbor in North Africa.

Synopsis: U.S. troops board transports bound for Africa during World War II... The troops embark a transport ship... American and British convoys rendezvous near Gibraltar... A gunner aboard a ship keeps a watch on the sea and the sky...  The troops in a barge which is lowered. They unload the barge at a harbor. Barges approach the harbor. U.S. trucks and tanks are unloaded at the harbor... Equipment is massed on beaches.

Location: North Africa
Date: 1942
Duration: 4 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes

U.S. troops landing with Higgins assault boats on a beach in

French Morocco, November 1942. Photo at Britannica

Caption continued: By November 1942 the Allies had begun to secure the Atlantic. Stalin was demanding the opening of a second front against Germany to relieve the pressure on Russia. Britain and America were not yet prepared for a major continental invasion, so a compromise was reached in the North Africa campaign. The Allies landed on November 8, forced the capitulation of the Vichy regimes in Morocco and Algeria, and drove eastward against Rommel’s German army.

Link to Websites re Combined Operations. The first link encountered there provides access to a 24-minute video re Beach Organization, prior to invasion of Sicily.