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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.
23 October: Montgomery launches Operation Lightfoot starting the Second Battle of El Alamein (23 October – 11 November 1942) 5 November: Axis lines broken at El Alamein; 8 November: Operation Torch is launched under the command of General Eisenhower, Allied forces land in Morocco and Algeria; 9 November: Sidi Barrani captured by Eighth Army
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
American troops on board a Landing Craft Assault heading into Oran, November 1942. Operation Torch in November 1942 was a compromise operation that met the British objective of securing victory in North Africa while allowing American armed forces the opportunity to engage in the fight against Nazi Germany on a limited scale. [51]
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 .
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