✦ History

Part of World War II

Operation Torch

November 8–16, 1942 · Operation Torch

Result Allied victory

Anglo-American landings in French Morocco and Algeria in November 1942. Vichy French forces soon stopped fighting, and the operation opened the Tunisian campaign against the Axis in North Africa.

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Allies

Axis

United States
United Kingdom
Vichy France Vichy French forces resisted the landings for three days
Germany
Italy
French protectorate in Morocco
Dwight D. Eisenhower military commander George S. Patton military commander François Darlan military commander Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope military commander Henry Kent Hewitt military commander
Alphonse Juin military commander Charles Noguès military commander

Strength and losses

United States Deaths 556 · Wounded 837

United Kingdom Deaths 574

Deaths
1,346
Wounded
1,997

Units

British First Army First Army (United Kingdom) I Armored Corps (United States) II Corps (United States) V Corps (United Kingdom) 1st Armored Division (United States) 2nd Armored Division (United States) 9th Infantry Division (United States) US 1st Division US 3rd Division 1st Parachute Brigade (United Kingdom) 16th Infantry Regiment (United States) 18th Infantry Regiment (United States) 1st Cavalry Regiment (United States) 41st Infantry Regiment (United States) 75th Ranger Regiment 7th Infantry Regiment (United States)

Battles 4

Also involved 3