Army Pictorial Service - North Africa

Group of U.S. Army and U.S. Navy photographers assigned to the Pictorial Division of the Signal Corps. Army Signal Corps photographers include: Lt. Jack Judge, back row, left and co-author Edmund Burke O’Connell, back row, second from right.

 Donald Wiedenmayer identifies fellow Army photographers in the front row as Marshall “Sonny” Diskin, far left, and Danny Phillips, second from right, and Stanley Simmons, far right.

 This informal group photograph is published in Army Col. Darryl F. Zanuck’s wartime memoir, Tunis Expedition, recounting the landing of Allied forces in North Africa in 1942 during Operation Torch. 

Zanuck, head of Twentieth Century Fox Studios in Hollywood, California before the start of the war wrote a day-by-day account of describing how he and his men were on the battle front only 20 miles from the city of Tunis.

Army Pictorial Service, U.S. Signal Corps, 1943