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Honour - NORTH AFRICA 1942-43 |
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| Description |
The operation 'Operation Torch' took place at Morocco, Oran and Algiers and
landed a military force to take the area controlled by Vichy French forces. The naval forces included Royal Navy and United States Navy heavy units escorting troop convoys which came direct from the UK and the USA. A total of more than 300 warships and 370 merchant ships. An initial 65,000 were landed across the beaches under cover of air support from offshore carriers and naval gunfire support from heavy units. By D+3, 160 land based fighters were ashore at Casablanca, 180 at Oran and 90 at Algiers. The part played by US forces was emphasised and British forces reduced in an attempt to reduce French resistance caused by anger at the Royal Navy bombardment of the French Fleet at Oran shortly after Mainland France surrendered earlier in the war. French resistance was mixed, fierce at Oran, mild at other areas. None was prolonged. All French forces surrendered after a few days. A movement east was then made against German forces in Tunisia in conjunction with the existing Eighth Army to the west to force the surrender of Axis forces in North Africa. This objective was achieved on 12-May-1943 when all German and Italian forces in North Africa surrendered.
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| A | ||||
| Aberdeen 42 | Achates 42 | Acute 42-43 | Alarm 42-43 | Albacore 42-43 |
| Algerine 42 | Alynbank 42 | Amazon 42-43 | Antelope 42-43 | Arctic Ranger 42-43 |
| Argonaut 42 | Argus 42 | Ashanti 42-43 | Aubretia 42-43 | Aurora 42-43 |
| Avenger 42 | Avon Vale 42-43 | |||
| B | ||||
| Bachaquero 42-43 | Banff 42-43 | Beagle 42 | Bermuda 42 | Bicester 42-43 |
| Bideford 42 | Biter 42 | Blean 42 | Boadicea 42 | Boreas 42-43 |
| Bradford 42 | Bramham 42 | Brilliant 42-43 | Brixham 42-43 | Broke 42 |
| Bude 42-43 | Bulldog 42 | Bulolo 42 | Burke 42 | |
| C | ||||
| Cadmus 42-43 | Calpe 42-43 | Cava 42-43 | Charybdis 42 | Clacton 42-43 |
| Clare 42-43 | Clyne Castle 42 | Coltsfoot 42 | Convolvulus 42-43 | Coreopsis 42 |
| Coriolanus 42-43 | Cowdray 42 | Cumberland 42 | ||
| D | ||||
| Dasher 42 | Delhi 42 | Deptford 42 | Dianella 42 | Duke of York 42 |
| E | ||||
| Eastbourne 42 | Easton 43 | Eday 42-43 | Egret 42-43 | Elbury 42-43 |
| Empyrean 42 | Enchantress 42-43 | Erne 42 | Eskimo 42-43 | Exe 42 |
| F | ||||
| Farndale 42-43 | Felixstowe 42-43 | Filey Bay 42-43 | Fleetwood 42-43 | Fluellen 42 |
| Formidable 42-43 | Foula 42-43 | Furious 42-43 | ||
| G | ||||
| Gardenia 42 | Geranium 42 | Glengyle 42 | Goth 42-43 | |
| H | ||||
| Hartland 42 | Hengist 42-43 | Horatio 42 | Hoy 42 | Hunda 42-43 |
| Hussar 42-43 | ||||
| I | ||||
| Ibis 42 | Ilfracombe 42 | Imperialist 42 | Inchcolm 42-43 | Inchmarnock 42-43 |
| Ithuriel 42 | ||||
| J | ||||
| Jamaica 42 | Jaunty 42-43 | Jonquil 42 | Juliet 42-43 | Jura 42-43 |
| K | ||||
| Karanja 42 | Keren 42 | Kerrera 42-43 | Kintyre 42-43 | Kingston Chrysolite 42 |
| L | ||||
| Lamerton 42-43 | Landguard 42 | Largs 42 | Laurel 42 | Leith 42 |
| Leyland 42 | Linnet 42-43 | Loch Oskaig 42-43 | Londonderry 42-43 | Lookout 42-43 |
| Lord Hotham 42 | Lord Nuffield 42-43 | Lotus 42-43 | Lulworth 42 | Lunenburg 42-43 |
| M | ||||
| Maidstone 42-43 | Malcolm 42 | Marigold 42 | Martin 42 | Meteor 42 |
| Milne 42 | Misoa 42 | Mull 42-43 | ||
| N | ||||
| Negro 42-43 | Nelson 42-43 | Norfolk 42 | ||
| O | ||||
| Offa 42-43 | Onslow 42 | Opportune 42 | Oribi 42 | Othello 42 |
| P | ||||
| P45 (42) | P46 (42) | P48 (42) | P51 (Unseen) (42-43) | P54 (42) |
| P217 (42-43) | P221 (42) | P222 (42) | P228 (Splendid) (42) | Palomares 42 |
| Panther 42-43 | Partridge 42 | Pathfinder 42-43 | Pelican 42 | Penn 42-43 |
| Pentstemon 42-43 | Philante 42 | Polruan 42-43 | Poppy 42 | Porcupine 42 |
| Pozarica 42-43 | Prescott 42-43 | Prinses Beatrix 42-43 | Puckeridge 42-43 | |
| Q | ||||
| Quality 42-43 | Queen Emma 42-43 | Quentin 42 | Quiberon 42-43 | |
| R | ||||
| Renown 42 | Restive 42-43 | Returno 42 | Rhododendron 42 | Rhyl 42-43 |
| Roberts 42 | Rochester 42 | Rodney 42-43 | Ronaldsay 42 | Rother 42-43 |
| Rothesay 42-43 | Rousay 42 | Royal Scotsman 42-43 | Royal Ulsterman 42-43 | Ruskholm 42-43 |
| Rysa 42 | ||||
| S | ||||
| St. Mellons 42-43 | St. Nectan 42 | Samphire 42-43 | Sandwich 42 | Scarborough 42 |
| Scottish 42 | Scylla 42 | Sennen 42-43 | Seraph (P219) 42-43 | Sheffield 42 |
| Shiant 42-43 | Sirius 42-43 | Speedwell 42-43 | Spey 42-43 | Spirea 42 |
| Starwort 42 | Stork 42 | Stornoway 42-43 | Stroma 42-43 | Stronsay 42-43 |
| Sturgeon 42-43 | Swale 42 | |||
| T | ||||
| Tartar 42-43 | Tasajera 42-43 | Tribune 42 | Tynwald 42 | |
| U | ||||
| Ulster Monarch 42 | Ursula 42 | |||
| V | ||||
| Vanoc 42-43 | Vansittart 42 | Velox 42-43 | Venomous 42-43 | Verity 42-43 |
| Vetch 42-43 | Victorious 42 | Vienna 42-43 | Violet 42-43 | |
| W | ||||
| Walney 42 | Westcott 42-43 | Westray 42-43 | Weyburn 42-43 | Wheatland 42-43 |
| Wilton 42-43 | Wishart 42-43 | Wivern 42-43 | Woodstock 42-43 | Wrestler 42 |
| Z | ||||
| Zetland 42-43 | ||||
| RFA Ships | ||||
| Abbeydale 42 | Brown Ranger 42 | Derwentdale 42 | Dewdale 42-43 | Dingledale 42-43 |
| Ennerdale 42 | Nasprite 42 | Viscol 42 | ||
| FAA Squadrons | ||||
| 700 (42-43) | 800 (42) | 802 (42) | 804 (42) | 807 (42-43) |
| 809 (42) | 817 (42) | 820 (42-43) | 822 (42-43) | 832 (42) |
| 833 (42) | 880 (42) | 882 (42) | 883 (42) | 884 (42) |
| 885 (42-43) | 888 (42-43) | 891 (42) | 893 (42-43) | |
| ML's | ||||
| 1942-43 | ||||
| 238 | 273 | 280 | 283 | 295 |
| 307 | 336 | 338 | 433 | 444 |
| 458 | 463 | 469 | 471 | 480 |
| 483 | ||||
| HDML's | ||||
| 1942-43 | ||||
| 1127 | 1128 | 1139 | ||
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This page last edited -
11 April, 2013.
Copyright © Ian M King, except where otherwise indicated. |
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