The North Africa campaign was the first major U.S. offensive in World War II, taking place in Libya, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, and Tunisia. Operation Torch, launched in November 1942, involved three ...

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 ...

The last of the ships that some credit with winning World War II for the Allies has plowed through the waters of the Midwest, where people got a chance to visit it.