"French North Africa" was a collection of territories in North Africa controlled by France and centering on French Algeria.
 At its height, it was a large part of the Maghreb.
René Jacques Adolphe Prioux (April 11, 1879 – June 16, 1953) was a general of the French Army who served in both world wars.
 A cavalry officer of great talent, Prioux rapidly rose through the officer ranks and commanded the Cavalry Corps of the First Army during the Battle of Belgium in May 1940.
 He was captured by the Germans and spent two years as a prisoner of war.
 Repatriated in 1942, Prioux came to be seen as a strong supporter of the Vichy regime and was consequently removed from a position of authority in the French Army by Charles de Gaulle, the leader of the Free French, after the landings in French north Africa by U.S. and British forces in November 1942.
No Banners, No Bugles (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1949) is a book by Edward Ellsberg describing his activities as Principal Salvage Officer for Operation Torch during World War II.
Heidemarie Martha Stefanyshyn-Piper (born February 7, 1963) is an American Naval officer and a former NASA astronaut.
 She has achieved the rank of Captain in the United States Navy.
 She is also a qualified and experienced salvage officer.
 Her major salvage projects include de-stranding the tanker "Exxon Houston" off the coast of Barbers Point, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, and developing the plan for the Peruvian Navy salvage of the Peruvian submarine "Pacocha" .
Jean Louis Xavier François Darlan (7 August 1881 – 24 December 1942) was a French Admiral and political figure.
 He was Admiral of the Fleet and commander in chief of the French Navy in 1939 at the beginning of World War II.
 After France signed an armistice with Nazi Germany in 1940, Darlan served in the pro-German Vichy regime, becoming its deputy leader for a time.
 When the Allies invaded French North Africa in 1942, Darlan was the highest-ranking officer there, and a deal was made, giving him control of North African French forces in exchange for joining their side.
 Less than two months later he was assassinated.
Operation Kingpin was part of the run-up to Operation Torch, the planned Allied invasion of North Africa during World War II.
 It was a successor to Operation Flagpole, in which a secret meeting between U.S. General Mark W. Clark and diplomat Robert Murphy, representing the Allies, and General Charles E. Mast, the leader of a group of pro-Allied Vichy France officers in French North Africa, was arranged to secure their cooperation with the invasion.
 In Operation Kingpin, French General Henri Giraud, code-named "Kingpin", was released from confinement and brought to Gibraltar to meet with Operation Torch commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Clark in order to secure his cooperation with the invasion.
Operation Torch (initially called Operation Gymnast) was the British-United States invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November 1942.
The Géo Gras Group was a French resistance movement that played a decisive role during Operation Torch, the British-American invasion of French North Africa during WWII.
The Potez-CAMS 141 was a French long range reconnaissance flying boat of the late 1930s.
 Intended to equip the French Navy, only a single prototype was completed before the German invasion of France stopped production.
 That prototype did, however serve operationally from bases in French North Africa until scrapped in 1943.
Operation Flagpole was part of the run-up to Operation Torch, the planned Allied invasion of North Africa during World War II.
 It involved arranging for and carrying out a top-secret high-level meeting between U.S. General Mark W. Clark, representing the Allies, and Général Charles E. Mast, the leader of a group of pro-Allied Vichy France officers in French North Africa, to secure their cooperation with the invasion.

Question: Who wrote a book describing his activities as a Principal Salvage Officer during the invasion of French North Africa?
Answer: Edward Ellsberg