After the Fall of France and the establishment of the Vichy regime in 1940, Allied leaders looked to target French colonial ...

Torch was America’s first offensive operation in the European theatre and, until it was overtaken by the Normandy attack 19 months later, the largest and most complex amphibious invasion in history.

November 1942 saw the tide turn in the European theater, with the Second Battle of El Alamein, fought in Egypt from Oct. 23 to Nov. 7, and El Alamein's strategic compliment, Operation Torch.

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 ...