WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Operation Torch was the Anglo-American invasion of French Morocco and Algeria during the North African Campaign of World War II. It began on November 8 and concluded on November 16, 1942.

Detailed explanation-2: -The successful Operation Torch saw the American armies gain their first major victory in World War II. Paratroopers and Rangers from the U.S. Army were also successfully used for the first time at the landings around the city of Oran.

Detailed explanation-3: -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).

Detailed explanation-4: -The operation was preceded by secret negotiations with Vichy representatives in a bid to minimize French and Allied bloodshed. Given French hostility to Britain, due to the Royal Navy’s attack on the French fleet in 1940, the first wave was mainly American. U.S. Lieutenant General Dwight Eisenhower was in command.