Major conflict1942

Operation Torch

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Casablanca · Oran · Algiers

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Anglo-American invasion of French Morocco and Algeria, the first major US ground action in the western theater of WWII.

Belligerents3

United States
United Kingdom
Vichy France

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1939)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Operation Torch (1942). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/operation-torch · Sources & methodology