Operatation Torch

Julian Galvan

Mr. Brondos

History HSA

3 June 2015

Operation Torch & Italy WW2

Operation Torch took place on November eighth through the tenth, in 1942 during, the Second World War (Atkinson 1). In July of 1942, Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had decided that the allies “should open a second front” to help the red army fighting in the Soviet Union (Atkinson 2). The Object of the operation as a whole is to “occupy French Morocco and Algeria with a view to the earliest possible occupation of Tunisia” (Atkinson 1). The person Roosevelt and Churchill put in command was General Dwight D Eisenhower (Atkinson 2). In Operation torch there would be two great armadas (Atkinson 4). In the two armadas it would carry “more than 100,000 troops to invade the beaches” (Atkinson 4). At the time the U.S and Great Britain were in a calamity that had put them in a state to bring them both to their knees (Breuer 7). Britain had wanted American support for a campaign to seize French North Africa. (Atkinson 12). Britain needed to defeat Rommel that is why they needed support from the Americans (Atkinson 12). Britain had needed to gain control of the areas around Europe such as North Africa and the Mediterranean. (Atkinson 13). “This was the first time British and Americans had jointly worked on an invasion plan together” (Atkinson 13). Those who were involved with this operation was General D Eisenhower, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, and vice admiral sir Bertram Ramsey (Hickman). Those in the axis who were involved were Admiral Francois Darlan, General Alphonse Juin, and General Charles Noglies (Hickman). Italy had been members of the triple alliance with Germany and Austria – Hungary (O’Neill 38). In the final push to defeat the axis of Italy and Germany during World War 2, “the U.S and Great Britain, and the leading allied powers had planned to invade Italy” (O’Neill 35). The Italian campaign “seared into history the names of such places as Anzio, Salerno, and...