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Events on Monday 16 November 1942 1
1942Operation TorchAllied landings in French North AfricaAmerican and British forces under Dwight D. Eisenhower landed at Casablanca, Oran and Algiers. After brief resistance, Vichy French forces agreed to an armistice. The landings opened the campaign that drove the Axis out of North Africa in 1943.