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80-G-30247: Operation Torch, November 1942. Planes of USS Ranger (CV-4) en-route to invade French North Africa, November 1942. Aviation Machinist’s Mate 1/C R.M. Price, USNR, offered Aviation Radioman 3/C M.S. Waterson, USN, left $2340 for the latter’s rear seat in a dive bomber but was turned down. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2017/06/06).

80-G-30253: Operation Torch, November 1942. USS Ranger (CV-4), pilots of Squadron VF-41 laughed and talked with their skipper, Lieutenant Commander C.T. Booth, USN, in the ready room on the morning of the attack on French possession in North Africa. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2017/06/06).

80-G-30234: Operation Torch, November 1942. Activities onboard USS Ranger (CV-4) during the campaign. Shown: Aviation Ordnancemen belted over one million rounds of 50 calibre machine guns ammunition in preparation for the Amphibious Force invasion of French North Africa. Aviation Ordnanceman 2/C C.F. Boyette and Aviation Ordnanceman 2/C J.L. Haddigan, right, stow away a few thousand rounds already belted. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2017/06/06).

80-G-30232: Operation Torch, November 1942. U.S. destroyer cuts through the wake of a U.S. aircraft carrier on patrol, first day of fighting off North Africa, November 8. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2017/06/06).

80-G-30221: Operation Torch, November 1942. USS Chenango (ACV-28) with Army pursuit planes, P-40’s, on the flight deck during the amphibious force invasion of French North Africa. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2017/06/06).

80-G-30218: Operation Torch, November 1942. SBD Dauntless planes from USS Ranger (CV-4) en route to invade French North Africa. A Navy scout bomber flies on anti-submarine patrol. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2017/06/06).

80-G-30216: Operation Torch, November 1942. SBD Dauntless planes from USS Ranger (CV-4) en route to invade French North Africa. A Navy scout bomber flies on anti-submarine patrol. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2017/06/06).

80-G-30210: Operation Torch, November 1942. Squadron commanders and intelligence officers onboard a warship (probably USS Ranger (CV-4) map out air plans for North African operations. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2017/06/06).

80-G-19924: Damaged ships at Casablanca Harbor, Morocco, during the first days of the U.S. campaign in North Africa. French battleship, Jean Bart, is shown damaged. (4/7/2015).

80-G-19923: Damaged ships at Casablanca Harbor, Morocco, during the first days of the U.S. campaign in North Africa. French ship SS Porthos is shown damaged. (4/7/2015).

80-G-19918: Damaged ships at Casablanca Harbor, Morocco, during the first days of the U.S. campaign in North Africa. French battleship, Jean Bart, is shown damaged. (4/7/2015).

80-G-19889: U.S. Army personnel on a transport during the first part of the U.S. campaign in North Africa. U.S. Army Major is holding a carved stone head. (4/7/2015).

80-G-19921: Damaged ships at Casablanca Harbor, Morocco, during the first days of the U.S. campaign in North Africa. French ship SS Porthos is shown damaged. (4/7/2015).

"Staff officers of an...Air Corp Squadron near Fez, French Morocco. Left to right, Lt. Col. Benjamin O. Davis, C.O., Cap NARA 531174

After the success of the Allied landing of 8/11/1942, the Americans preferred to keep in place, hoping to rally it, the entire (opposing) Vichy civil and military administration, which was to arrest and intern until 1943 the resistance fighters then without protection, ulcerated and rebels, who launched these butterflies on the military parade of the Allies in liberated Algiers, rue d'Isly, at the end of November 1942.

Peiper with US attorney Ellis at the Malmedy trial, Dachau 1946

Peiper at the Malmedy massacre war crimes trial (Dachau, 1946)

117th Infantry Regiment (30th Division) clearing German snipers house-to-house in Stavelot

Peiper at the Malmedy massacre trial (Dachau, 1946)

Peiper after the Battle of the Bulge; captured and tried at Dachau for the Malmedy massacre

Bundesarchiv: SS-Obersturmbannführer Joachim Peiper, commander of Kampfgruppe Peiper (1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler)

Bundesarchiv: American prisoners during the Ardennes offensive, December 1944

Bundesarchiv: American soldiers taken prisoner during the Ardennenoffensive

Bundesarchiv: StuG III (Sturmgeschütz) during the Ardennenoffensive