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| Personnel aboard HMS Formidable observing the invasion beach at Algiers, Algeria, 8 Nov 1942, photo 1 of 2 | Personnel aboard HMS Formidable observing the invasion beach at Algiers, Algeria, 8 Nov 1942, photo 2 of 2 |
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| United States Army troops landing near Algiers, Algeria, 8 Nov 1942. Note the large American flag they carried in the hopes French troops would not fire on it. | Dwight Eisenhower, François Darlan, Mark Clark, and Robert Murphy at Algiers, Algeria, 13 Nov 1942 |
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| British ships Vienna (center), Carlisle (behind Vienna), Dido (behind Carlisle), Ashanti (right), Oakley (behind Ashanti), Maidstone (behind Oakley), and Formidable (rear) at Algiers, Algeria, circa 1942-1943 | Winston Churchill presiding over the Allied Planning Conference, Algiers, Algeria, 4 Jun 1943; note Eden, Brooke, Tedder, Cunningham, Alexander, Marshall, Eisenhower, and Montgomery |
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| 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. |
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