August 17th, 2008, 06:19 PM
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Re: D-Day November 1942
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Originally Posted by T. A. Gardner
In fact, there were three such attempts made with two old destroyers each. The landing at Algriers described above and the one at Oran by the HMS Hartland and Walney was also a disaster. Only the landing at Safi by the USS Bernadou and Cole was successful.
Each operation had about 350 men assigned total.
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How many others at the other two locations surrendered? And IMO it wasn't " a significant portion of the American task force landing at Oran"
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