Overview
A half track and anti-tank gun are loaded onto a landing craft during Operation Torch. British sailors and British and American soldiers on the beach near Algiers Vice Admiral H. Kent Hewitt
Task Group 34.1 covering force
Battleship USS Massachusetts (Capt. Whiting)
Heavy cruisers USS Wichita (Capt. Low) and USS Tuscaloosa (Capt. Gillette)
Destroyers USS Wainwright , USS Mayrant , USS Rhind and USS Jenkins
Tanker USS Chemung Task Group 34.2 Carrier group
Aircraft carrier USS Ranger (Capt. Durgin)
Escort carrier USS Suwannee (Capt. Clark)
Light cruiser USS Cleveland (Capt. Burrough)
Destroyers USS Ellyson , USS Forrest , USS Fitch , USS Corry and USS Hobson
Tanker USS Winooski Task Group 34.8 Northern task force
Battleship USS Texas (Capt. Pfaff)
Escort carriers USS Sangamon (Capt. Wieber) and USS Chenango (Capt. Wyatt)
Light cruiser USS Savannah (Capt. Fiske)
Destroyers USS Roe , USS Livermore , USS Kearny , USS Ericsson , USS Parker , USS Hambleton , USS Macomb , USS Dallas and USS Eberle
Submarine USS Shad
Submarine tender USS Barnegat
Minesweepers USS Raven and USS Osprey
Tanker USS Kennebec
8 transport ships Task Group 34.9 Center task force
Heavy cruiser USS Augusta (Capt. Hutchins)
Light cruiser USS Brooklyn (Capt. Denebrink)
Destroyers USS Wilkes , USS Swanson , USS Ludlow , USS Murphy , USS Bristol , USS Woolsey , USS Edison , USS Tillman , USS Doyle and USS Rowan
Submarines USS Gunnel and USS Herring
15 transport ships
6 mine hunting vessels Task Group 34.10 Southern task force
Battleship USS New York (Capt. Umsted)
Escort carrier USS Santee (Capt. Sample)
Light cruiser USS Philadelphia (Capt. Hendren)
Destroyers USS Mervine , USS Knight , USS Beatty , USS Cowie , USS Quick , USS Doran , USS Cole , USS Bernadou , USS Rodman and USS Emmons
Submarine USS Barb
Tankers USS Housatonic and USS Merrimack
3 mine hunting ships
6 transport ships US I Armored Corps
Major General George S. Patton
Northern Attack Group (Mehedia) Brig. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott (9,099 officers and enlisted)
60th Infantry Regiment (Reinforced) of 9th Infantry Division 1st Battalion of 66th Armored Regiment of 2nd Armored Division
1st Battalion of 540th Engineers Centre Attack Group (Fedhala) Maj. Gen. J. W. Anderson (18,783 officers and enlisted)
3rd Infantry Division
7th Infantry Regiment (Reinforced) 15th Infantry Regiment (Reinforced) 30th Infantry Regiment (Reinforced) Southern Attack Group (Safi) Maj. Gen. Ernest N. Harmon (6,423 officers and enlisted)
47th Regimental Combat Team of 9th Infantry Division 3rd and elements of 2nd Battalion of 67th Armored Regiment of 2nd Armored Division
French forces in Morocco
Général de division Georges Lascroux
Covering Task Force - Force H - Mediterranean
ViceAdmiral Edward Neville Syfret , RN
Aircraft carriers HMS Victorious , HMS Formidable and HMS Furious
Battleships HMS Duke of York , HMS Rodney and HMS Nelson
Battle cruiser HMS Renown
light cruisers HMS Bermuda , HMS Argonaut and HMS Sirius
17 Destroyers
A Royal Air Force Spitfire that suffered landing gear failure upon landing near Bône , Algeria Commodore Thomas Hope Troubridge
Escort carriers HMS Biter and HMS Dasher
Light cruisers HMS Jamaica and HMS Aurora
Anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Delhi
Headquarters ship HMS Largs 1 anti-aircraft ship
13 Destroyers
4 sloops
6 Corvettes
8 mine hunters
8 Trawlers
2 Submarines
19 Landing ships
28 Transport ships US II Corps
Major General Lloyd R. Fredendall
Approx. 39,000 officers and enlisted
1st Infantry "Big Red One" Division (Maj. Gen. Terry Allen )
16th Infantry Regiment 18th Infantry Regiment 26th Infantry Regiment 1st Armored Division (Maj. Gen. Orlando Ward )
Combat Command B
6th Armored Infantry Regiment 1st Ranger Battalion 2nd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Rear Admiral Sir Harold Burrough
Aircraft carrier HMS Argus
Escort carrier HMS Avenger
Light cruisers HMS Sheffield , HMS Scylla and HMS Charybdis
Headquarters ship HMS Bulolo
Monitor HMS Roberts
3 anti-aircraft ships
13 Destroyers
3 Sloops
6 Corvettes
7 Mine hunters
8 Trawlers
3 Submarines
17 Landing ships
16 Transport ships Allied Landing Forces
Major General Charles W. Ryder [ a]
Approx. 33,000 officers and enlisted
British (approx. 23,000)
78th Infantry Division (Maj. Gen. Vyvyan Evelegh )
11th Infantry Brigade 36th Infantry Brigade
No. 1 Commando No. 6 Commando 5 squadrons of RAF Regiment United States (approx. 10,000)
9th Infantry Division (Maj. Gen. Manton S. Eddy )
39th Infantry Regiment 34th Infantry Division (Maj. Gen. Charles W. Ryder )
135th Infantry Regiment 168th Infantry Regiment
Notes
^ CG, US 34th Infantry Division
Citations
Bibliography
Morison, Samuel Eliot (1947). Operations in North African Waters . History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. II. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. ISBN 0-7858-1303-9 Rohwer, J. (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945 . Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-119-8 
