Us Official Photographs

Green Project near Marseilles

The official designation for the troop-ferrying operations now being carried on between Istres/Le Tube airport, near Marseilles, and Casa-blanca in North Africa, is the "Green Project". It is being conducted by two heavy bombardment groups under the supervision of the 40th Bomb Wing of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. In the month and a half since the first troop-laden B-17 took off from Istres airport, over 20,000 passengers have been carried. These include civilians as well as combat veterans. The Triom family waiting in the schoolyard in the city of Port Lyautey for transportation along with other French refugees, to the airfield. In the background is Fathma Ham' Ada, dressed in native Moroccan costume.