There was also a battalion-sized airborne landing near Oran with the mission to seize two airfields. landings on Morocco’s Atlantic coast (Western Task Force-Safi, Fedala, Mehdia–Port Lyautey) and Anglo-American landings on Algeria’s Mediterranean coast (Center and Eastern task forces-Oran, Algiers). The operation was planned as a pincer movement, with U.S. and British planners as the latter felt that the American-advocated landing in northern Europe was premature and would lead to disaster at this stage of the war. The operation was a compromise between U.S. The Allied invasion of French North Africa in November 1942 was intended to draw Axis forces away from the Eastern Front, thus relieving pressure on the hard-pressed Soviet Union.
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