From 'Army at Dawn' by Atkinson the casualties of Pattons corps & Adm Hewitts amphibious fleet for capturing Morroco were:

337 killed

637 wounded

122 missing

71 captured

That is from three days combat. There were two attacks by French tanks, which I belive were Renault 35 models. In one attack the French tanks were countered by Stuart type light tanks. In the other by light US AT weapons. There had been numerous FT17 types in Africa pre 1939 but I dont find any refered to by any knowledgeable historian for 1942 or 1942. That suggests none were still operable.

The landing of Pattons Armored Corps was marked by disorder and serious logistic problems. He & his staff ignored both the experince from previous corps size exercises in 1941 and 1942 and the advice of Adm Hewitts staff. When the fighting ceased Patton had only 2/3 of his combat units ashore and the beach sites were a worse mess than usuall.

At Oran Algeria the US II Corps under Ferhendall it went better. The landing sites were less well defended, and the French reserves less aggresive than in Morroco. Ward commanding the US 1st Armored Div and Allen commanding the US 1st Div were able to bypass key French defense positions between their landing site and Oran. Atkinson does not give exact casualty counts for the II corps but from his text I estimate them at a minium of 800 killed wounded captured. A large portion of these were from the failed Operation Reservist, a high risk commando style 'coup de main'.

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