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Há 2 dias · Background. Battle. Aftermath. Later influence. Orders of battle. See also. Notes. Citations. Bibliography. External links. Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942) was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War.
- 8-16 November 1942(1 week and 1 day)
- Allied victory
- French Morocco, French Algeria
Há 3 dias · Under Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander, Patton was assigned to help plan the Allied invasion of French North Africa as part of Operation Torch in the summer of 1942.
Há 1 dia · The East African campaign was the first Allied strategic victory in the war; few Italian forces escaped the region to be used in other campaigns and the Italian defeat greatly eased the flow of supplies through the Red Sea to Egypt. Most of the Commonwealth forces were transferred to North Africa to participate in the Western Desert ...
Há 5 dias · North Africa, region of Africa comprising the modern countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. The geographic entity North Africa has no single accepted definition. It has been regarded by some as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Morocco in the west to the Suez Canal and the Red Sea.
Há 4 dias · In North Africa, approximately 80,000 African soldiers fought in British and French armies against the Germans and Italians, serving in critical battles like El Alamein. [^10] African troops made up a significant portion of the Free French forces that helped liberate French colonies from Vichy rule.
This 40,000-man strong elite "Rapid Corps" of two infantry brigades and the mechanized corps was collectively known as the "Carpathian Group". - from wiki Hungary entered the war in our timeline on November 20th, 1940.
Há 1 dia · Following an overview of ‘Nationalism, decolonisation and the Cold War, 1945–1991’, chapters follow on ‘Egypt and Algeria: radical nationalism, nonalignment, and external intervention in North Africa, 1952–1973’; ‘The Congo Crisis, 1960–1965’; ‘Portugal’s African Empire, 1961–1975’; ‘White-Minority Rule in ...
