DEATH AT THE HANDS OF FRIENDS: The Oran Harbor Raid during Operation TORCH This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Charles Hurd, “4 Points Invaded,” New York Times, 9 Nov 1942, p ...

On the 8th November 1942 American and English troupes from Gibraltar arrived on the North African Coast The taking of Alger owes its success to a small group of maverick fighters Operation Torch ...

On the 11th of January 1944, the Istiqlal party, recently formed, wrote a Manifesto demanding Morocco’s full independence.

The Government of Gibraltar also marked this important milestone of the Second World War in 2004 when an Operation Torch coin was minted. Gibraltar National Archives will host an exhibition to ...