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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...
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    North African campaign (category Battles and operations of World War II involving Australia)
    deserts (Western Desert campaign, Desert War), in Morocco and Algeria (Operation Torch), and in Tunisia (Tunisia campaign). The Allied war effort was dominated...
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  • 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...
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    Nazi Germany, and then liberated by the Americans and British during Operation Torch in 1942. As for the population, they mostly opposed the Vichy Regime...
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    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...
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    of Torch was to seize French Northwest Africa and, for political reasons, the Americans would lead operation. The airborne segment of the operation entailed...
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    Equatorial Africa – West Africa. French West Africa surrendered in Operation Torch to the Allies armies. Dakar Air Base became an important air base....
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    Operation Blackstone was a part of Operation Torch, the Allied landings in North Africa during World War II. The operation called for American amphibious...
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    in the liberation of French colonies throughout the world including Operation Torch in French north Africa, escorting convoys during the Battle of the...
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    Tunisian campaign (category Campaigns, operations and battles of World War II involving the United Kingdom)
    around the circuitous route via the Cape of Good Hope. On 8 November, Operation Torch landed Allied forces in Algeria (at Oran and Algiers) and Morocco (at...
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