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SUN 08 NOV 1942War day 1,165Mediterranean & North Africa
The plan hoped Vichy forces would not resist. At Oran, French warships made that hope briefly expensive.
Before dawn on 8 November 1942, Allied troops came ashore in French North Africa. Operation Torch was planned as a pincer: the U.S. Western Task Force landed on Morocco’s Atlantic coast, while the Center and Eastern task forces struck Algeria’s Mediterranean coast. Their objective was to secure bridgeheads behind the German and Italian forces fighting the British in Libya and Egypt, and to open a second front. The landings were commanded by Lieutenant-General Dwight D. Eisenhower. The planners had decided against a preliminary naval bombardment, hoping French forces would not resist. They did.
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