![]() Joseph Stalin demanded an invasion of Europe. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill decided that the Allies needed to open a Second Front to take pressure off the hard-pressed Red Army reeling under the German summer offensive driving toward Stalingrad and the oil-rich Caucauses (July 1942). There was not doubt, however, what the French people thought.Īmerican President Franklin D. Vichy officials who had thrown their lot in with the Germans were disturbed by the Allied landings. Here American soldiers chat with French civilians and a policeman in Algeria after the Vichy forces asked for a ceasefire (November 11). When this failed, the Luftwaffe's limited transport planes, while the Germans in Stalingrad starved, were used to fly reinforcements into Tunisia. Hitler at G�ring's urging attemted to supply the Stalingrad pocket by air. ![]() The Red Army executed Operation Uranus, cutting off the 6th Army in Stalingrad (November 19-23). And finally the greatest disaster of all. Than the Americans and British landed to the west in Morocco and Algeria (November 6-7). First the British 8th Army with mountains of American equipment and suppliesc launched Operation Lightfoot, smashing the Afrika Korps at El Alemein (October 23-November 5). ![]() In the space of onlyba month, however, the German war effort was rocked to its core. World War II: Operation Torch (November 1942)įigure 1.-Hitler and OKW by October 1942 believes that they were on the cusp of victory withe Red army only holding a narrow pocket along the Volga in Stlingrad. War and social upheaval: World War II Operation Torch
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