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The attack was a part of the objectives of the Western task force as part of Operation Torch, [2] a large Allied landing to seize control of North Africa from German control. Within the task force, Sub Task Force Goalpost was tasked with the objective of securing Port Lyautey.
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.
United States Army operations in the theater began with Operation Torch, when Allied forces landed on the beaches of northwest Africa on 8 November 1942, and concluded in the Italian Alps some 31 months later, with the German surrender in Italy on 2 May 1945. For administrative purposes, U.S. components were responsible to Headquarters North ...
Vietnam War. Operation Starlite – 21 August 1965; Nigerian Civil War. Operation Tiger Claw; The Troubles. Operation Motorman – 31 July 1972; Operation Peace of Cyprus Turkish invasion of Cyprus - 20 July 1974; Qua Viet Assault – 24 May 1972 (see also the events of 1973 at Cua Viet Port) Falklands War. Operation Rosario – 2 April 1982 ...
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 World War II. Formed October 1940 in Algiers , the group recruited Jews and French Army officers opposed to Vichy France .
Operation Torch ended in Allied victory. The Kokoda Track campaign ended in Allied victory. The Naval Battle of Casablanca ended in American victory. The Battle of Buna–Gona began. German submarine U-173 was depth charged and sunk off Casablanca by American warships. German submarines U-192 and U-668 were commissioned.
USS Joseph Hewes (AP-50/APA-22), formerly SS Excalibur, was a troop transport for the United States Navy during World War II commanded by Captain Robert McLanhan Smith Jr. A part of the Center Attack Group of Admiral Hewitt's Western Naval Task Force, Operation Torch, Joseph Hewes was sunk on November 11, 1942 by the German submarine U-173 in Fedala Roads off French Morocco coast during the ...
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 .