Keywords: blackandwhite monochrome outdoor black and white 80-G-20775: Operation Torch, North African Invasion, November 12, 1942. USS Edward Rutledge (AP 52 – ex-Exeter) just as she was hit amidships by a submarine torpedo. Photograph taken from the transport USS Hugh L. Scott, torpedoed a few minutes earlier. Both were sunk along USS Tasker H. Bliss (AP 42) off Fedala, Morocco, during the U.S. Campaign in North Africa. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2015/11/17). 80-G-20775: Operation Torch, North African Invasion, November 12, 1942. USS Edward Rutledge (AP 52 – ex-Exeter) just as she was hit amidships by a submarine torpedo. Photograph taken from the transport USS Hugh L. Scott, torpedoed a few minutes earlier. Both were sunk along USS Tasker H. Bliss (AP 42) off Fedala, Morocco, during the U.S. Campaign in North Africa. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2015/11/17). |