On November 8, 1942, Yanks and Brits launched Operation Torch. The avowed enemies were Rommel and the Italians
But first we needed to whip some French. It didn't take long, and they turned out to be a minor annoyance in the grand scheme of things.
Rommel was tougher, and the green American army carried its butt in its hands in the aftermath of the Kasserine Pass adventure. Eventually all was righted, and six months after the invasion North Africa was no longer Nazi country.
Three significant developments followed the victory in Tunisia:
1. The blimp-scale ego of Bernard Law Montgomery
2. Ditto George F. Patton
3. The war in Sicily where (1) and (2) above, opposed one another in the race for Messina. There was collateral damage, of course; that is, some Nazis got killed.
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