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Default Re: D-Day November 1942

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Originally Posted by JCFalkenbergIII View Post
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"
The Oran attack was just over 100 men total (52 British troops plus about the same in ship's crew with 33 US Navy and Marines in addition). About a third were killed or wounded with the rest surrendering. All-in-all these operations amounted to less than 1/10 of 1% of the Allied manpower involved in the landings.
All of the ships used were older vessels cut down, stripped, and re-armed for this mission. Their loss was insignificant.
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