In this way, the “flying guns” of Task Force 34 played a critical role in the opening phase of the Torch landings. To the great frustration of the officers leading the operation, the bulk of ...

He signed up with the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment and after training in Bury St Edmunds and Scotland he found himself in the allied landings of North Africa, codenamed Operation Torch.

As Operation Torch unfolded, 3 Squadron RAAF was there, securing landing grounds, engaging enemy aircraft, and supporting the ...

On November 8, 1942, the Western Allies launched Operation Torch, landing in Vichy-controlled Morocco and Algeria to open up a second front in World War II. Torch was a paradoxical operation ...

Operation Torch, launched in November 1942, involved three strategic beach landings by U.S. forces, supported by British and Free French units. The campaign was challenging due to the harsh desert ...

The Anglo-American landing in North Africa? Operation Torch? No? [Those were the words of] de Gaulle, that evening, on the BBC." Heads were nodded, but no more – it was raining. Nicole Cohen ...