2-611-837 - Keystone Archives/Heritage Images

American troops parading in Casablanca, Morocco, World War II, December 1942. American soldiers passing the statue of Hubert Lyautey, the French soldier who commanded his country's invasion and conquest of Morocco in 1896-1898. Casablanca fell to the Americans after they invaded Vichy French Morocco and Algeria as part of Operation Torch, beginning on 8 November 1942.