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Events on Sunday 8 November 1942 3
1942Dwight D. Eisenhower commands Operation TorchHe leads the Allied landings in French North Africa, the first large American offensive in the European theatre.
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.
1942 – 2026Sandro MazzolaInter Milan and Italy, 1942-2026 - seventeen years at one clubForward of the Grande Inter, European champion with Italy in 1968, and the son of the Torino captain lost at Superga.