6.+General+Dwight+D.+Eisenhower,++General+Erwin+Rommel+and+Operation+Torch

Ian Roos 10/20/08

__Operation Torch__



http://www.fmft.net/operation%20torch.jpg As most of you know, in November of last year, 107,000 allied troops landed on the beaches of Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers, in North Africa. These men were led by Dwight E. Eisenhower in a sea invasion of North Africa, known as Operation Torch. After the successful invasion, the allied troops quickly moved eastward, chasing the German General Erwin Rommel (Also known as the Desert Fox) and his Afrika Korps through North Africa. However, last May, the German soldiers in Africa surrendered and the United States has successfully taken North Africa. This now leaves the United States in a good position to carry out our original plan of fighting up through Italy, until we reach Germany and put an end to the war.

__Works Cited__ Danzer, Gerald. The Americans. 3. U.S.: McDougal Littell, 2005.