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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
The missions took off while the parachute landings were in progress and followed them by two hours, landing at about 0400, 2 hours before dawn. Chicago was an unqualified success, with 92 percent landing within 2 miles (3.2 km) of target.
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 ...
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.
USS Savannah (CL-42) was a light cruiser of the Brooklyn-class that served in World War II in the Atlantic and Mediterranean theatres of operation. Savannah conducted Neutrality Patrols (1941) and wartime patrols in the Atlantic and Caribbean (1942), and supported the invasion of French North Africa in Operation Torch (November 1942).
From North African land bases, the Allies could now better protect convoys sustaining both Malta and Britain herself. Even with the loss of life and damage to Allied ships sustained during Operation Torch, naval historian Stephen Roskill concludes that rarely was so much gained during the war at such relatively small cost. [219]