The Operation
The British victory in the crucial Battle of El Alamein caused a long, slow westward retreat of the German tank corps and made possible the American-led Operation Torch on 8 November 1942. An amphibious landing on the shores of Morocco and Algeria. The success of Operation Torch launched its planner Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, into the front ranks of American strategists and led to his later appointment as supreme Allied commander in Europe.