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Originally Posted by Kai-Petri
Didnīt the major part of the US forces for TORCH come all the way from the US so actually not impossible...?!
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Completely different. Firstly, only one of the Task Forces (Western) travelled from the States, and as the US Army states:
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In the Mediterranean, the U.S. Army had to deal with a condition absent from the situation on the Atlantic coast: large-scale British participation.
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http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/brochures...ia/algeria.htm
Basically, whereas with Britain in the war, the American could convoy their troops across the Atlantic protected by the RN (and Canadian Navy), without this protection, the US would have had to divert a lot more resources for an invasion of Britain, including a major commitment of US carriers.
And the invasion of Britain, or a direct assault anywhere on mainland Europe would have been completely different from the invasion of North Africa,
So, maybe not impossible, but a damn sight harder than D-Day was.