French North Africa

American troops were fighting in Operation Torch, the invasion of French North Africa.

Spanish was the common language within the company and all had fought during the liberation of French north Africa.

Such thinking also helped justify the creation of the Code de l’Indigènat in 1875, a French law that institutionalized racism and apartheid in French North Africa by officially designating Muslims as subjects rather than citizens.

The world woke up to the Fascists’ support a couple of weeks later, after two Italian planes crash-landed in French North Africa.

All the time, I had been dreaming of visiting Algeria, of seeing Algiers, the capital of French north Africa.