American WW II aircraft in North Africa (Port Lyautey)

-from the family photo albums of CWO Lee Strausbaugh - WW II Navy Combat Photographer Stationed at Port Lyautey in Dec 1942, my father, Lee Strausbaugh, was a Navy Combat Photographer in charge of the photo lab at the North African airfield. He flew hundreds of hours on ASW patrols with the PBY squadrons, was attacked by a German fighter-bomber, and shot it down with the 50-caliber machine gun in the blister turret of the PBY Catalina. These pictures show all the various aircraft flying from the base. There must have been one of almost every kind of airplane on that base. (re-edited)