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Dec 11, 2021 · ‘Gushing oil and roaring fires’: 30 years on Kuwait is still scarred by catastrophic pollution. Oilwells set alight by Iraqi forces in 1991 were put out within months, but insidious pollution...
Oct 29, 2021 · Morocco annexed Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony believed to have considerable offshore oil deposits and mineral resources, in 1975, sparking a conflict with the Polisario Front. The U.N. brokered the 1991 cease-fire and established a peacekeeping mission to monitor the truce and help prepare a referendum on the territory’s future that ...
- Aircraft Carriers
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- The Hartland and The Walney
- USS Dallas
- Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
- Douglas C-47 Skytrain
- Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
- Consolidated B-24 Liberator
- M-3 Tank
- Sherman Tank
Most American aircraft carriers were busy fighting the Japanese in the Pacific. The only one in the Atlantic was the USS Ranger, and it was sent to join the expedition. To make up for the deficiency, several oil tankers were converted into aircraft carriers for Operation Torch. Aircraft decks were hastily welded onto them, giving the planes somethi...
The fleet that transported and landed the troops was a motley assortment of craft. Small tankers were taken from a Venezuelan lake and converted so they could land tanks on beaches. They became the model for thousands of future tank landing vessels. Ferryboats were taken from service around the British Isles, decked out with large American flags, a...
Originally US Coast Guard cutters, the ships had been given to Britain before the US entered the war. They served as corvettes in the Royal Navy. In Operation Torch, they had the task of slipping into Oran harbor, carrying two companies of the US 1stArmored Division for an assault on the port.
A WWI-era destroyer, the Dallaswas stripped of much of her structure to make her light, giving her a shallow draft. It was a conversion carried out for a single mission. She rammed through a barrier at the mouth of the Sebou River, steamed upriver for three-and-a-half hours, and then disgorged 75 soldiers to seize an airfield.
The latest in the Hawk line of fighter aircraft, the Warhawk had a better engine and was more aerodynamic than its predecessor thanks to flush rivets. It became the main fighter of the US Army Air Corps fighter squadrons. Unfortunately for the American pilots, the Warhawk was outclassed by both French and German planes in North Africa. It was the s...
The C-47 was the principle transport aircraft of the operation. It was used to move supplies and soldiers around the country, as well as for paratrooper deployments. On the first day of Operation Torch, a flight of C-47s set off from airfields around Land’s End, at the southern tip of Britain, and carried paratroopers all the way to Tunisia to make...
The best-known American bomber of the war, the B-17 was not the best performing. The Consolidated B-24 Liberator had the edge over it technologically and in combat performance. British and German heavy bombers were shown to outclass it during the fierce aerial combat of 1941. Still, the B-17 was a valuable asset during the war in Africa. To make up...
The B-24 flew alongside the B-17. It was more modern in its design, more advanced in its technology, and was more widely used. The B-24 suffered the same fundamental problem as the B-17. Unwieldy in the air, it was vulnerable to attacks from maneuverable German fighters. Bomber crews were the sitting ducks of the air war.
Having analyzed the invasions of Poland and France, the US military realized that their M2A1 tanks did not carry a heavy enough gun. The design was hastily adapted to create a medium tank with a 75mm gun in a side sponson, an interim measure until a whole new tank could be built. It was the M-3. Chrysler hastily produced a thousand of those tanks. ...
With the M-3 in production, American designers set to work creating a medium tank with a turret that could carry a 75mm gun. It was the M4, commonly known as the Sherman. The Sherman became the main battle tank of both the American and British armies. They hoped to use it in the same way the Soviets used the T-34, producing overwhelming numbers wit...
May 10, 2020 · But then MAS boats MS-16 and MS-22 closed within point-blank range and torpedoed the cruiser, flooding Manchester’s boilers, magazines and fuel tanks and knocked out all but one propeller.
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Apr 10, 2022 · In January of 2022, a swirl of rumours emerged to the effect that Shell had made a mega-oil discovery in the Graff-1 exploration well in the deepwater of Namibia’s segment of the Orange Basin. Graff-1 was drilled in 1,962 metres of water to a depth of 5,376 metres.
Jul 31, 2016 · What happened to the San Leon Energy block called Tarfaya Onshore? San Leon Energy has had interest in the block since 2008, a block that was partially in occupied Western Sahara and partially on the territory of Morocco proper.
Jun 23, 2022 · Algeria, Niger and Nigeria held talks this week on the revival of a decades-old project to pipe gas across the Sahara, a potential opportunity for Europe to diversify its gas sources as Russia’s...
