North Africa in Atlantic strategy [Ressource électronique]

This article discusses the importance of North Africa in the Allied forces' strategy during World War II. A powerful armada landed American and British forces along the African coast from Casablanca, Morocco to Algiers, Algeria. Operation Torch marked the decisive turn of the war. The leap into Europe from the African springboard facilitated the breaking of the Atlantic Wall and the formation of a second front; nor would that front have been as effective if it had not stretched from the Adriatic to the Channel, welded together by the Allied forces coming from Africa through Provence, France. North Africa developed into an unequalled base of manoeuvre and supplied valuable fighting reserves.