The United States and United Kingdom launch Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of French North Africa. Operation Torch was the first large-scale Allied invasion involving U.S. ground forces in the European-North African theater of World War II.
Operation Torch: Allied ground action in North Africa
Unknown photographer, Near Algiers, “Torch” troops hit the beaches behind a large American flag, 1942 [November 8]
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs · NAID 195516