World War II - Operation Torch

Time: Sunday Nov 8, 1942

Place: French Morocco and French Algeria

Details: Second Battle of El Alamein was followed up shortly after by Anglo-American landings (Operation Torch) in French North Africa, which resulted in the region joining the Allies. Operation Torch took place between 8 to 16 November 1942.

Related

On This Day - 8 November

Crusades-Louis IX of France was defeated at Mansura

Tuesday Nov 8, 1250 - Mansura, Egypt

Inca Empire-Battle of Vilcaconga

Wednesday Nov 8, 1533 - Inca

Napoleon-The night of 8/9 November

Sunday Nov 8, 1812 - Russian Empire

Abraham Lincoln-Lincoln carried all but three states

Tuesday Nov 8, 1864 - U.S.

Frederick Douglass-Douglass supported John C. Frémont

Tuesday Nov 8, 1864 - U.S.

November 1942

Alan Turing-Turing traveled to the United States

Nov, 1942 - Washington D.C., U.S.

Dwight D. Eisenhower-Eisenhower was also appointed Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force of the North African Theater of Operations (NATOUSA)

Nov, 1942 - United Kingdom

World War II-Case Anton

Tuesday Nov 10, 1942 - Vichy France

Winston Churchill-End of the beginning

Tuesday Nov 10, 1942 - London, England, United Kingdom

Joseph Goebbels-The Allied victory at the Second Battle of El Alamein

Wednesday Nov 11, 1942 - Egypt

1942

Pope John Paul II-Study for the priesthood

1942 - Karkow, Poland

Computer-The First "automatic electronic digital computer"

1942 - Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, U.S.

Antibiotic-The penicillin G

1942 - United Kingdom

Antibiotic-The Chemical Structure of Penicillin was First Proposed

1942 - United Kingdom

Atlantic Charter-Declaration by United Nations

Thursday Jan 1, 1942 - U.S.