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North Africa (Operation Torch)

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1st Bn soldiers pose with a camel and a local man, North Africa, 1942

2nd Parachute Battalion marching in Tunisia, c1942-3.

Inside of aircraft hangar destroyed by German air attack, Maison Blanche, 1942.

Map of North Africa showing landing zones of 1st, 2nd and 3rd Parachute Battalions, 1942.

16 PFA Operating Theatre at Schoolhouse, Beja during Operation Torch, 1942

Members of 2nd Parachute Battalion at Maison Carrée, 1942.

Two paratroopers with French soldiers at Souk-El-Arba (Tunisia). 17 November 1942

Citation for the award of the Military Cross to Major Richard Ashford, Oudna, 1942.

Operation Torch, 1st Parachute Brigade Operation Instructions No. 1, October 1942.

1st Parachute Brigade Operation Instruction No. 2. Plan X, October 1942.

War Diary, 3rd Parachute Battalion. November 1942-July 1943.

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Derrick Bentham speaks with soldiers at Maison Blanche Airfield, Tunisia, c.November 1942

Members of C Company, 3rd Para Bn, November 1942.

Report on S company, 1st Bn column activities, November 1942.

Two men of 2nd Parachute Battalion take cover behind rocks at Medjez el Bab, November 1942.

Report on Operations Night by 1st Parachute Battalion, November 1942

16 PFA Christmas Card, 1942

Statement by Corporal J McConney, North Africa, 15 December 1942.

Three officers of A Coy, 2nd Parachute Battalion, stand in the Beja area of Tunisia, 1943.

Two RAMC orderlies lifting a man on a stretcher during an exercise, North Africa, 1943

Men of 16 Parachute Field Ambulance pose for an informal group photograph, Tunisia, 1943

Paratrooper takes cover in some long grass while training, North Africa, 1943

War Diary, 2nd Parachute Battalion. November 1942-May 1943.

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