A troopship under air attack

6th November 1943: Young infantrymen must sit in the crowded spaces below decks as the Luftwaffe launch a torpedo attack on their convoy

One of the first convoys to leave America in the war. Convoy out of Brooklyn, New York, 19 February 1942. USS Neville (AP-16), other transports, an oiler and a battleship, bound for Belfast. Photographed from a blimp from Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey.

Allied troops were on the move. Some battle-hardened units were being withdrawn back to Brita…