6.+General+Dwight+D.+Eisenhower,++General+Erwin+Rommel+and+Operation+Torch

It was a mild evening and the sun was setting as I arrived back to my military barracks after a long day of patrol. I was part of a Vichy French battalion that was station in the town of Safi, Morocco, south of Casa Blanca. As I unequipped my cumbersome military gear I gazed out of my barracks window and observed the golden sunset, contemplating the quickly spreading rumors of an Allied invasion of Africa. I dismissed the thoughts as I climbed into my cot, wary from a day of patrol. I was awoken by the deep blast of our artillery fire, my fellow soldiers and I scrambled to our posts near the beach head. There we saw an overwhelming number of Allied transport ships, full of troops landing along the coast. I manned a machine gun nest and with the help of snipers we halted the Allied advance on the beach. An officer was using a radio nearby and I had overheard that Safi was not the only city to be attacked; the Allies had launched a three pronged amphibious landing on Morocco and Algiers. ([]) British and American troops continued to pour onto the beach and by mid morning we had been pushed into the city. We continued to fight; however, moral plummeted when we discovered that the supplies trucks intended to aid us had been destroyed by Allied planes. By the time it was afternoon were nearly out of ammunition and had leaned that the revered German General Rommel had pulled the remaining forces to Tunisia. We also learned that the American Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower had deployed all of his 107,000 troops and was besieging Morocco’s strong hold, Casa Blanca. After hearing this news, we laid down our arms and surrendered to the allies, hoping they would be merciful. ([])

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