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Operation Torch

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1942Date range
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Chronological records

1942

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill25 June 1942

Washington DC · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Churchill and Roosevelt meet and agree to attack German forces in North Africa (Operation Torch) before launching invasion of Continental Europe, Torch serves to stall Bolero troop build-up in UK

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill8 November 1942

Washington DC · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Allied forces land in Morocco and Algeria (Operation Torch)

Names involved

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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