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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 ...
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]
Lot-11582-3: Operation Torch, November 1942. Mother Ship. Approximately 20 U.S. Navy landing barges of various types swarm about a mother ship off Safi, French Morocco, during the American landing operations there during November 1942. U.S. Navy Photograph, released December 14, 1942. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Confusion was prevalent in the landing operation. Once the first wave made it to shore, the French defenders began resisting with small arms fire as well as cannon fire from a fortress (Kasbah 34°15′51″N 006°39′27″W / 34.26417°N 6.65750°W / 34.26417; -6.65750 ) overlooking the area
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 ...
A U.S. Navy A3D-2 Skywarrior landing at Port Lyautey, circa 1958. The airfield was expanded to a major US Naval Air Station in 1951. It primarily supported land-based naval reconnaissance aircraft, such as the P4M Mercator in the 1950s, the P-2 Neptune in the 1950s and 1960s and the Lockheed P-3 Orion , [ 4 ] EP-3 Aries and EA-3 Skywarrior [ 5 ...
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 .
American and British troops landing near Gela, Sicily, July 10, 1943. The 82nd landed the next day. As part of Operation Husky in the Sicily Campaign , the 82nd Armored Reconnaissance battalion played a big role in the capture of Butera when the battalion landed in Gela, Sicily in south-central Sicily, on July 11, 1943.