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The Naval Battle of Casablanca was a series of naval engagements fought between American ships covering the invasion of North Africa and Vichy French ships defending the neutrality of French Morocco in accordance with the Second Armistice at Compiègne during World War II.
Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942) was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War.Torch was a compromise operation that met the British objective of securing victory in North Africa while allowing American armed forces the opportunity to begin their fight against Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on a limited scale. [6]
USS Casablanca (AVG/ACV/CVE-55) was the first of fifty Casablanca-class escort carriers built for the United States Navy during World War II.She was named after the Naval Battle of Casablanca, conducted as a part of the wider Operation Torch, which pitted the United States Navy against the remnants of the French Navy controlled by Vichy France.
Operation Blackstone was a part of Operation Torch, the Allied landings in North Africa during World War II.The operation called for American amphibious troops to land at and capture the French-held port of Safi in French Morocco.
Casablanca Division Général de division Émile Béthouart. Infantry: 1st Moroccan Tirailleurs Regiment; 6th Moroccan Tirailleurs Regiment Colonial Infantry Regiment of Morocco; III/6th Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment Cavalry: 1st Chasseurs d'Afrique Regiment 3rd Moroccan Spahi Regiment Artillery:
Operation Torch and the US Navy base ports. US Naval Bases in North Africa were sea ports and air base used in North Africa during World War II by the United States Navy.The ports and air bases supplied the troops of the Allies armies in the flight against German and Italian forces in the North African campaign and Western Desert campaign.
The Pacha of Casablanca, Abu Bakr Ibn Abi Zaid as-Slawi, captive on the French cruiser Galilée, which bombed Casablanca from 5–7 August 1907. Over three days of bombs raining down from the French warships, followed by carnage and pillaging from troops on the ground, what had been a prosperous city of 30,000 inhabitants was transformed into a ...
The North African campaign of World War II took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943, fought between the Allies and the Axis Powers.It included campaigns in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts (Western Desert campaign, Desert War), in Morocco and Algeria (Operation Torch), and in Tunisia (Tunisia campaign).