USS Santee (ACV-29, later CVE-29) photograped circa mid-October 1942, shortly before she participated in the invasion

of Morocco. Aircraft on her flight deck include (from aft) SBD

scout-bombers, F4F fighters and TBF torpedo planes. She is

painted in Camouflage Measure 17. Photo: National Archives.

Crewmen checking Mark XVII 325 pound depth bombs

on the hangar deck, at the time of the North

Africa Operation, November 1942. Photographed

by Lieutenant Horace Bristol, USNR. Note bomb

carts, and Grumman F4F-4 and TBF-1 aircraft.

Original color photo of Lockheed Hudson „J-Jig“ of No. 200

Squadron, Royal Air Force, in flight over a coastal region

of Africa. This unit damaged Heine´s U-403 on August 17,

1943. Photo: IWM