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...

deserts (Western Desert campaign, Desert War), in Morocco and Algeria (Operation Torch), and in Tunisia (Tunisia campaign). The Allied war effort was dominated...

French North Africa took place in November 1942 under the code name Operation Torch. After the United States entered World War II in December 1941, the...

by Vichy France, then retaken by the Americans and British during Operation Torch in 1942, As for the population, they mostly opposed the Vichy Regime...

of Torch was to seize French Northwest Africa and, for political reasons, the Americans would lead operation. The airborne segment of the operation entailed...

Equatorial Africa – West Africa. French West Africa surrendered in Operation Torch to the Allies armies. Dakar Air Base became an important air base....

personally report on the operation to King George VI and was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. After Operation Dynamo was completed, he...

her first major combat operation when she sortied with Task Group 34.8 (TG 34.8), the Northern Attack Group for Operation Torch, the invasion of North...

in the liberation of French colonies throughout the world including Operation Torch in French north Africa, escorting convoys during the Battle of the...

areas of North Africa. After the Allied landing in Casablanca in 1942 (Operation Torch), the French administration in Morocco began to support the Allied...