Thousands of Inexperienced US Troops Face Off During Operation Torch

In Operation Torch, the first joint U.S.-British offensive of the war, thousands of inexperienced U.S. troops—and their untested leader, Eisenhower—face off against the hardened German Afrika Korps and the infamous Field Marshall Erwin Rommel.

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