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Just 42 days after the fall of Tunis, a photographic record of the U.S. African campaign went up on the walls of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. It was a one-man show by LIFE Staff Photographer Eliot Elisofon (pronounced, by pals, Hellzapoppin). In it were 113 pictures of almost every aspect of the American occupation. Missing: views of U.S. dead, Elisofon prints of which were not released by the War Department...
Visitors to the Museum saw such subjects as: "Elisofon and his two Contaxes"*; a telling snap of three gay and very German prisoners; beautifully crosslit heads and torsos, leaning out of a truck window; a three-picture sequence of helmeted U.S. artillerymen reacting to a close shellburst; a detail study of a Sened building's shell-spattered plaster wall...
Hung with the show were passages from Elisofon letters. Sample: "I went on two bombing missions. The first was a sweep on the lookout for Axis shipping. ... I got into a Mitchell's nose. . . . We fan across some shipping. The tankers were escorted by two Axis destroyers. ... I was so petrified by seeing the flak coming up towards us ... that I made practically no pictures over the target. I have no shots of the destroyers or the flak. It was all I could do to get the single shot of the tanker through the nose of the plane...
From India came Jack Belden, now completely recovered from the hardships of the Burma campaign and his long trek across the mountains and jungles with General Stilwell. From America came Photographer Eliot Elisofon, now in Casablanca with Major General George S. Patton Jr.-and by Clipper and boat via Argentina came LIFE Editor Noel Busch on a special assignment to South Africa, to join Hart Preston, fresh out of Ankara, who was last heard from hedgehopping kraals, crocodiles and elephant herds in Zululand...