US Naval Air StationPort Lyautey, Morocco

.....The following photographs were submitted by Nicholas J. Proferes Jr. from the collection of his father, Nicholas J. Proferes Sr who was at Port Lyautey among many of his travels between 1944 and 1946.

.....The following four photographs, in French and Arabic, show the leaflets that were dropped by American aircraft warning the local population in Morocco of the impending invasion now known as Operation Torch.

Leaflet 1, Front side

Leaflet 1, Back side

Leaflet 2, Front side

Leaflet 2, Back side

Click your back control on your browser to return to the opening page.