Watch Lost Evidence online: Episode 2 North Africa

In November 1942, the largest amphibious assault force the world had yet witnessed assembled. Three allied Task Forces and 107,000 men swiftly headed to North Africa to link up with the British Eighth Army in Libya in order to crush Nazi forces in the region. For the first time during the Second World War, American forces came face to face with German troops. In the harsh and unyielding terrain of North Africa, the feared German Afrika Korps - under the command of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel - handed out a brutal lesson in desert warfare to the inexperienced American troops. In a series of ferocious battles lasting almost seven months, the combined allied forces crossed Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. This is the story of one of the least well known, but one of the most important, victories of the war. We use reconnaissance photographs taken by the aircraft which flew high above the carnage, capturing every move the other side made. For the first time images of some of the North African campaign’s most decisive moments can be witnessed from the air.

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