British Crusader tank passes a burning German Panzer IV tank during Operation Crusader, in North Africa, in November 1941. Troops recruited from British India were drafted into the British Eighth Army which did the majority of the fighting during the North Africa campaign. He is pictured here having survived his ordeal, with his feet bound upLt Colonel David Stirling, founder of the SAS, pictured in North Africa. During this month much of the fighting in North Africa was concentrated miles west of this position, near Gazala, in Libya. But defeat there in the spring meant Allied forces were soon streaming back across this borderAmerican troops dig foxholes during the Tunisian Campaign in North Africa.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 08, 2018 13:30 UTC