** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Lieutenant Junior Grade W.L. McVay ...
A month after the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation opened in June 1942, the Newport News command joined the equally new and untested Atlantic Fleet Amphibious Force in Norfolk to plot the largest, ...
Left: Some of the two thousand vessels in the Allied convoy cross the Atlantic to the North African coast to take part in Operation Torch. Right: The people of Algiers welcome U.S. troops during ...
CAMP WILLIAMS, Utah — The Utah National Guard along with the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces are hosting a unique commemorative exhibit at Camp Williams this week. The exhibit commemorates Operation Torch ...
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America Invades Africa - France Fights Back
The Allied invasion of Vichy French North Africa in 1942, known as Operation Torch, was the first mass involvement of U.S. troops in the European-North African Theatre and the first major airborne ...
In 1940, Germany’s blitzkrieg crushed France in just six weeks, bypassing the Maginot Line through the Ardennes and exposing the outdated tactics and overconfidence of French leadership. The swift ...
ON THE morning of November 8th a small crowd—one sprightly second world war veteran with a cane, a group of junior military attachés from allied countries and some curious tourists—gathered at the ...
FORT BLISS - Soldiers with 1st Armored Division "America's Tank Division" commemorated Operation Torch by holding a week-long, multi-faceted celebration, Aug. 20-24, at Fort Bliss, Texas. Operation ...
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