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Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill secretly planned the invasion of neutral French North Africa before the USA entered World War II. This became Operation Torch, which was opposed by senior Generals. As a result, the Allies suffered over 100,000 casualties during pointless fighting in Africa when they could have invaded Sicily directly.
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Related Tale: “The Senseless and Bloody Italian Campaign 1943-44”; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVbX0AWKYMo
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I hadn’t thought much about Operation Torch, although I am aware that Montgomery was accused of allowing the Afrika Korps to escape following their defeat at El Alemain. This seems to fit into the pattern of which I had been made aware, of both the US and Britain needlessly allowing the prolongation of the Second World War. Beneath your earlier Video “The Senseless and Bloody Italian Campaign of 1943-44 at “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVbX0AWKYMo (couldn’t make “page link” button work,my apologies), I wrote: Two omissions from this are: (1) The German reconquest of Italy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Achse) was not effectively resisted by the British, the… Read more »