What was Operation Torch in World War II?

July 30, 2020October 12, 2012 by Pamela Landy

Operation Torch was the Allied invasion of French North Africa beginning on November 8, 1942.

Assault troops, almost all American, captured Morocco and Algiers with mostly British naval support.

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