USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

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Code name for the invasion of North Africa

(A) Operation Take Back

(B) Operation Overlord

(C) ** Operation Torch

(D) Battle of the Bulge

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -TORCH is the code name for the invasion of North and Northwest Africa by British and American forces which began on November 8, 1942. General Dwight D. Eisenhower commanded the Allied ground, naval and air forces which participated in this operation.

Concept note-2: -Within days of the British victory at El-Alamein, the Allies launched Operation Torch, the code name for their invasion of North Africa. On November 8, 1942, British and American forces carried out an amphibious landing on the coast of French North Africa (present-day Morocco).

Concept note-3: -Operation Torch, first major Allied amphibious assault during World War II. It involved about 65, 000 troops who landed at Casablanca, Algiers, and Oran on the French North African coast.

Concept note-4: -Major General George S. Patton, Jr., USA, Commanding General, Western Task Force, U.S. Army (left); and Rear Admiral Henry Kent Hewitt, USN, Commander Western Naval Task Force, (center) share a light moment on board Augusta (CA-31), off Morocco during the Operation Torch landings (80-G-30116).