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Operation Torch World War II

Units Involved

135th Infantry Regiment

139th Infantry Regiment

15th Infantry Regiment

168th Infantry Regiment

16th Armored Infantry Battalion

16th Infantry Regiment

18th Infantry Regiment

26th Infantry Regiment

2nd Armored Division

30th Infantry Regiment

34th Infantry Division

47th Infantry Regiment

60th Infantry Regiment

66th Armored Regiment

67th Armored Regiment

78th Infantry Division

9th Infantry Division

1942-11-08 00:00:00 UTC - 1942-11-16 00:00:00 UTC
Attackers:

United Kingdom,

United States,

France,

Canada,

Netherlands,

Australia
Defenders: Morocco, Algeria,

Nazi Germany,

Italy
Outcome: Allied Forces victory

Operation Torch (initially called Operation Gymnast) was the British-United States invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November 1942.