Reconnaissance operation of the 8th RIM [French Marine Infantry Regiment] in the sector of Old Saïda. Raid on a mechta (hamlet) and arrest of Algerian combatants. Date: 1959. Photograph: Arthur Smet. Copyright: ECPAD – collection Smet. Réf.: D163-29-55. Arthur Smet practiced amateur photography as part of the 8th RIM with the consent of its hierarchy, before becoming a reporter in his own right from the summer of 1959.
