Monday Nov 8 -- help us commemorate Operation Torch

[Brooke]

Nov 8 (Monday), in Special Events II Arena, we'll run it twice:  once at 3 pm Eastern Time (i.e., 8 pm UK time) and once at 10 pm Eastern Time.



Join us to commemorate Operation Torch, the British-American invasion of North Africa, which began November 8, 1942.
 
Operation Torch was the first allied amphibious invasion of WWII and the first step in operations that culminated in British-American footholds on continental Europe.  For American forces, it was the first fight in the European theater.  In the initial stages, 110,000 British and American troops, hundreds of ships, and about 160 carrier-based aircraft squared off against Vichy French forces of 120,000 troops, fortified coastal positions, various warships, and about 160 aircraft, as well as German U-boats and Luftwaffe bombers.

[Brooke]

More details are here:

http://ahevents.org/events/this-day-in-wwii/607.html?task=view

[Brooke]

F4F-4, SBD-5, TBM-3, Hurricane I (as Sea Hurricane), Spitfire I vs. Bf 109E-4 (as Dewoitine D.520), P-40B (as Hawk 75), and Ju 88A-4 (no formations).

Air combat, ground support, CV's, naval battles, amphibious assault, tanks.

It's all here in the allied invasion of North Africa.

[Kermit de frog]

"amphibious assault"

Sweet!