Question

Where did

armed forces
land in North
Africa? What
was the result of
Operation Torch?

Answer 1

Operation Torch, first major Allied amphibious assault during World War II. It involved about 65,000 troops who landed at Casablanca, Algiers, and Oran on the French North African coast. Operation Torch was the first time U.S. troops saw action against Nazi Germany, trapping Erwin Rommel ’s army in a pincer as it fled from El-Alamein.