By Low, 'The Evening Standard', January 15, 1943

Casablanca Conference

By Low, 'The Evening Standard', January 1943

Generals De Gaulle and Giraud attended the Casablanca meeting.

By Low, 'The Evening Standard', January 1943

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By Strube, 'The Daily Express', January 25, 1943

British capture Tripoli. Axis driven out of Libya.

By Strube, 'The Daily Express', March 10, 1943

The British 8th Army breaks through the Mareth line in Tunisia.

By Strube, 'The Daily Express', March 31, 1943

"We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us. And may I say, across the havoc of war, a great general."
- Winston Churchill (commenting on Rommel)

By Low, 'The Evening Standard', May 7, 1943

In Tunisia, American troops take Bizerta, the British take Tunis. The African campaigns had ended
in total axis surrender to the Allies.

Seal of the German Afrikakorps. By P.C., 'The Dallas Star'

May 12, 1943, the unconditional surrender of all Axis troops in Tunisia
(130,000 German and 120,000 Italian prisoners).

"If the Germans cannot win this war then they can rot."
- Adolph Hitler (to Rommel, 1943)

By Low, 'The Evening Standard', July 12, 1943

July 10 - Allied troops landed on the island of Sicily.
"Mare Nostrum" (Latin for our sea) claims Mussolini's Fascist Empire.

By Low, 'The Evening Standard', November 1943

Roosevelt, Churchill and Chaing Kai-Shek issue the "Cairo Declaration".

This Szyk illustration, which was published on the editorial page
of the New York Post on June 1, 1943, challanged the Allies'
evident indifference to the plight of European Jewry. It appeared amidst
a rising tide of criticism in Congress, the Jewish community,
and the media over the recent Bermuda Conference, in which
the U.S. and British governments had again refused to take meaningful
steps to aid the refugees.