Operation Torch: brevet Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force of the North African Theater of Operations, invades Vichy French (pro-German) occupied north Africa.
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Subsequent Events:
References:
Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, (New York: MacMillan, 1966; New York: Dauphin, 2015), 542-43.