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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.
A half track and anti-tank gun are loaded onto a landing craft during Operation Torch. British sailors and British and American soldiers on the beach near Algiers. Vice Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, USN [1] [2] Task Group 34.1 covering force Battleship USS Massachusetts (Capt. Whiting) Heavy cruisers USS Wichita (Capt. Low) and USS Tuscaloosa (Capt ...
He was also the head of planning for Operation Torch, the largest seaborne invasion at the time. [ 3 ] On 10 March 1945, at the age of 48, Clark became one of the youngest American officers promoted to the rank of four-star general . [ 4 ]
Code-named Operation Torch, the invasion of the French colonies involved coordinated landings of three separate task forces in western, central, and eastern target zones. Negotiations with the Vichy French forces there that would allow the Allied landings to proceed unopposed were unsuccessful.
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 ...
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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. Like his book Under the Red Sea Sun about salvage work in Massawa earlier in the war, this book describes daring adventures and monumental accomplishments.
When planning began for Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942, it was decided to attach the 1st Parachute Brigade, part of the 1st Airborne Division, to the Allied forces taking part, as an American airborne unit, the 2nd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, was also to be used during the invasion.