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Few Americans today know about Operation Torch, America's first real large (multi-divisional) amphibious/expeditionary invasion of World War II. Torch, run with British/Commonwealth forces in November 1942, was designed to occupy French North Africa and flank Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps during their retreat from El Alamein.Operation Torch was huge for its time, with five Allied divisions landing on three sets of beaches, running from Casablanca on the Atlantic coast to Oran in the Mediterranean. The largest amphibious landing ever run up to that time, Operation Torch was a crucible for Allied leaders and doctrine in World War II, and forged many of the postwar relationships that we recognize today. To learn more about Operation Torch, tune into this week's edition of Military Monday (#MilitaryMonday on the Writestream Radio Network (@Writestream)) at 1 PM EDT. Author, historian, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and host John D. Gresham (@greshamj01) has invited U.S. Naval Institute Press (@USNIBooks) autho