Aboulker, Jose: 189
Adcock, Col. Clarence L.: 46
Aegean Sea, coast defense of: 73
Africa, Northwest, landings in. See Landings in Northwest Africa; TORCH.
Agadir: 41, 179
Aïn Beïda: 494
Aïn Bou Driès: 462-63
Aïn Djeloula: 377
Aïn Draham: 604-05
Aïn et Turk: 193n, 200-01, 213, 224-25
Aïn M'lilla: 643, 657-58
Aïn Rebaou: 388-94, 409, 412, 591
Aïn Sebaâ: 142-43
Aïn Seymour: 330
Aïn Taya: 52, 246-47
Aïn Témouchent: 198
Air actions: 109-10, 601
Air attacks
Allied: 109-10, 139, 160-61, 279-80, 293-94, 302, 306, 308, 310, 335-36, 379, 381-82, 398, 412-13, 467, 470, 473, 518, 573, 577, 600-02, 649. See also Air-ground co-operation; Air support; Army Air Forces units; Northwest African Tactical Air Force; Western Desert Air Force.
enemy: 110-11, 112, 114, 187, 248-49, 257, 272-73, 278, 287, 293-94, 300, 315, 318-19, 374, 391-92, 396, 397-98, 411-12, 419-20, 435-36, 462, 470, 573
French, at Mehdia: 158, 159-60
Air forces, Allied
command structure and reorganization: 36-37, 335, 354-55, 492-95
missions assigned: 354-55
strength in March: 573
strength in Tunisia area: 295, 335n
Air forces, enemy
consolidation of in Tunisia: 370
strength in Tunisia area: 295
transfer from Tunisia to Sicily: 648-49
Air forces, French: 21, 40, 52, 118-19, 193, 230
Air Forces Service Command: 493-94
Air Forces Training Command: 493-94
Air Officer, ETOUSA: 354-55
Air Officer Commander in Chief, Middle East (Br.): 354-55
Air Officer Commanding, Malta (Br.): 354-55
Air reconnaissance
Allied: 139, 640n
enemy: 179-80, 185-86, 216, 287, 427, 438, 441-42, 465, 469, 530-31, 565-66
Air supply, enemy, at Tunis: 648-49
Air support
Allied: 36-37, 46, 48, 50, 53-54, 61, 109, 110-11, 114, 116, 119-21, 133, 145, 150, 152-53, 162-63, 165, 192-93, 204-05, 211-12, 215, 216, 231-34, 236-37, 244, 278, 279-80, 288-89, 299-300, 308-09, 314-15, 374, 381, 383-84, 387-88, 391, 393, 401-02, 411-12, 435-36, 467-68, 485-86, 493-94, 509, 514-16, 517-18, 527, 531, 532-33, 535-37, 547-48, 556, 558-59, 562, 573-74, 585-86, 640, 672-73
enemy: 287-89, 291, 304-05, 307-08, 324, 338, 367-68, 382, 406, 434, 449, 459, 467, 479, 517-18, 529, 556, 558, 560-62, 572, 574n, 582, 588, 637, 638
French: 144-45, 154
Air support parties: 280
Air supremacy
Allied: 335, 493-94, 527, 573
enemy: 21, 302, 316-17
Air transport
Allied: 212-13, 280
enemy: 365-66, 601-02, 603
Air-ground co-operation: 61, 480-81, 493-95, 536-37, 585n, 672-73
Air-warning equipment, deficiency: 279-80
Airborne operations
Allied: 48, 192, 210-11, 212-13, 306, 309
enemy: 7, 53, 54, 440
Aircraft, Allied, for French use: 499-500
Aircraft losses
Allied: 111, 139, 204-05, 212-13, 436n, 437, 467-68, 467n, 477, 611
enemy: 300-301, 370, 462, 601
French: 110-11, 139n, 158-59, 204-05, 207-08, 211-12, 218-19
Aircraft, night-fighters: 293-94
Airdromes. See Airfields.
Airdrops: 212-13, 278-79, 289, 306, 309
Airfields
Allied: 21, 41, 46, 48, 49, 52, 278-79, 592
defense of: 490
development: 335, 485, 493-95
in Morocco, rehabilitation of: 180
Thélepte, withdrawal from: 433, 437-38
in Tunisia, protection of: 401-02
enemy: 254-55, 366n, 370, 527
Akarit wadi: 322, 537-41. See also Chott position.
Akers, Col. Russell F., Jr.: 224, 380-81, 448-49
'Alam el Halfa: 75

Alexander, Gen. Sir Harold R. L. G.: 349, 353-54, 489, 492-93, 537-38, 545, 550, 552, 564, 569-70, 572-73, 575-76, 578-79, 582-87, 590-91, 592, 598-600, 608-09, 644
assigned to command 18th Army Group: 474-75
assigned to command Middle East theater: 72
directive from CinC: 485-87
directive on regrouping forces: 475-76
estimate of American troops: 475
Patton's estimate of: 545n
Alger, Lt. Col. James D.: 416-17, 421-22
Algiers: 16, 17, 292, 352, 496
air attack, enemy: 248-49, 254, 293-94
air support at: 230, 231-34, 236-37, 244, 247-48
airfields at: 52, 238-41
AFHQ established: 309
Allied strength, enemy estimates: 260
armor support, Allied: 230, 248-49
armor support, French: 52, 216, 247
assault, character of, to be American: 50-51
attack plan: 229-34, 237, 241-42
beach organization: 230-31, 245-46
casualties, Allied: 173, 243, 244n, 246, 248-49
coastal defenses: 52, 230, 234-35, 236, 242-43, 244
communications: 235, 237-38
debarkation at: 234-39, 241, 243-48
De Gaulle, arrival at: 669
drainage system: 51-52
eastern landings: 244-49
Eastern TF, departure of: 277-78
first day's results: 240-41, 251
French, reaction to assault: 186-87, 188-90, 235-36, 236n, 238, 239, 243-44, 246, 249-51
French forces in: 52
French forces, treatment of: 251-52
garrison strength: 229-30
Giraud's association in: 188-90
government, President's message to: 57
highway system: 230-31
importance of: 229
landing operations: 52, 188, 234-36, 237-39, 241, 244-45, 246-47
marine obstacle at: 241-42
military population: 495
naval operations: 190-91, 231-34, 244n, 248
night operations: 241-49
plans for operations at: 50-54
political problems: 229, 249-51
port facilities: 19
prisoners, Allied: 244n
prisoners, French: 248-49
sabotage activities: 241, 244
secured by Allies: 250-52
security measures: 249
seizure of: 229-52
shore party at: 235
surrender negotiations: 243-44, 249, 251-52
TERMINAL Force operations: 241-44
topography: 51-52, 230-31, 241-42
Vichy attitude toward occupation: 250-51
western landings: 235-38
Algorab, USS: 153, 170n
Allen, Capt. G. R. G. (RN): 195-96
Allen, Maj. Gen. Terry: 47, 205, 213, 215, 220, 223, 381-82, 456-57, 463, 464, 468, 546-48, 559-60, 614-15, 626, 632, 634, 636-37, 656-57
Allen, USS. See Henry T. Allen, USS.
Allfrey, Gen. (Br.): 329-30, 331-32, 394-95, 612
Allied air forces, command reorganization: 354-55
Allied Air Support Command: 492-93
Allied Force Headquarters: 495. See also Allied Forces; Commander in Chief, Allied Force; Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight D.
at Algiers: 309
armistice terms, plans for: 57
Axis strength, estimates of: 543
Clark-Darlan negotiations: 262-69
Darlan, relations with: 265-69, 272
Deputy Chief of Staff, appointment of: 33
directive to Anderson: 401-02
in England: 32-33
at Gibraltar: 84
Joint Rearmament Committee: 270, 362
North African Agreement: 269-70
personnel strength: 495-96
Political Affairs Section: 54-57
political missions, assignment by JCS: 55
political warfare, plans for: 54-57
propaganda activities: 54-57
SOS request for supply plan: 66
staff organization: 15, 33
staff relations, results of experience: 674-75
taxes, plans for collecting: 58
Allied Forces
activation: 33
air command, unity of, established: 383-84
air-ground co-operation, lack of: 480-81
American tardiness, complaints of: 417, 543-44, 573, 590-91, 599-600
Anderson appointed to co-ordinate operations: 383
armor strength: 354n
army groups, activation: 474-77
boundary designations: 418
British and Americans, juncture of: 576-77
build-up after landing, rate of: 65, 65n, 66
campaign experience, usefulness to: 669-77
casualties in Tunisian campaign: 675
Chief Civil Administrator for: 58-59
Chief of Staff, appointment of: 33

civil affairs, plans for administering: 57-59
command organization and relations: 32-37, 264-65, 350, 380-81, 382-86, 470-71, 474-76, 600n
communications zone, reorganization: 494-99
composition in Tunisia: 295-96
consolidation in Tunisia: 373-76
estimate of intentions, by enemy: 322
Faïd pass, result on of Axis attack: 392-93, 399
financial activities, control of: 57-58
Fredendall assigned to command ground troops: 385
French collaboration, organizing: 272-73
French commanders, criticism of appointment of: 267-68, 270
French West Africa, collaboration by: 270-72
genesis: 15
German appraisal of effort: 583n, 592n
liaison organization: 485-86
logistical support: 486, 495-99
Ousseltia Valley operations, effect of: 382-83
regrouping forces, directive on: 475-76
reorganization of battle line: 427-30
reorganization after victory: 665-68
Rommel's estimate of strength: 510-11
Rommel's proposal for countering: 322-24, 326
Sicily, preparations for invading: 665-68
southern sector, defense of: 442-43
strength, enemy, estimates by: 260
strength tables for U.S. forces, periodic: 679-81
Tunisia, advance into: 277-80
Tunisia, strength in: 335-36
supply organization: 495-99
weapons deficiencies: 479-81
Allied Powers, recognition of French Committee of National Liberation by: 671
Allison, Col. Richard: 211n
Almaack, USS: 71, 235, 244-45, 246
Ambrosio, Gen. (It.): 369, 469-70, 502, 645-47
Ambushes: 284, 306-07, 506-07, 671-72
Ammunition supply
Allied: 139-40, 217, 607
enemy: 611, 611n, 634, 640-41, 648-49
Amphibious Force, Atlantic Fleet: 60, 62, 68-70
Amphibious training: 60-63, 89, 103-04, 185
Anderson, Maj. Gen. Jonathan W.: 42, 42n, 121, 128, 132, 136, 139, 145, 172-73
Anderson, Gen. Sir Kenneth A. N.: 63, 71, 84, 279-80, 291, 295-96, 298, 326, 336-37, 343-44, 349-52, 355, 383-84, 399, 401-02, 403-05, 423, 430, 432-34, 443, 456-57, 468, 475, 486-87, 489, 599, 632, 643, 644-45, 667-71
appointed Eastern TF commander: 35, 252
appointed to co-ordinate operations: 383
background: 35n
directives to on operations: 384-86, 401-02
mission as commander of Eastern TF: 51
proposal for withdrawal to west: 423-24
proposes seizure of Philippeville and Bône: 53
Andrus, Brig. Gen. Clift: 220-21
Anfa Conference: 352-54
Anne Arundel, USS: 153
Anthony, USS. See Susan B. Anthony, USS.
Antiaircraft defense
Allied: 118, 119, 138-39, 205-05, 374-76, 462, 516, 574, 574n
enemy, at Mareth position: 527-28
Antiaircraft installations, attack on at Fedala: 128
Antiaircraft units
105th Coast Artillery Battalion: 199n, 461n, 462
106th Separate Coast Artillery Battalion: 195-96, 195n, 210, 210n, 378n
106th Coast Artillery Regiment: 430n
107th Coast Artillery Regiment: 578-79
213th Coast Artillery Regiment: 430n, 443, 547-48
434th Coast Artillery Battalion: 614-20
443d Antiaircraft Battalion: 121, 138-40, 376, 387n, 391n, 392n, 396n, 411, 416-17, 419n, 461n, 462, 549n, 565n
692d Coast Artillery Battalion: 158-59
Anti-British alliance, enemy plans for: 5
Anti-Semitism: 356
Antitank defense
Allied: 394, 397-98
enemy: 393-94, 420-21, 522-23, 537-38, 539-40
ARCADIA Conference: 10
ARCADIA Program, revision of: 11
Arco dei Fileni, enemy planning conference: 323-24
Arcole: 221-22
Arcturus, USS: 140, 145
Argus, HMS: 231-34, 278
Armistice negotiations. See Surrender negotiations.
Armor support
Allied: 102, 105, 107-08, 109, 114-16, 121, 128, 143-44, 145, 149-50, 152-53, 160-65, 192, 211, 215, 216-20, 222-23, 248-49, 291-92, 306, 307, 314, 315, 316-17, 328, 331, 341, 378-79, 386-88, 393-94, 406-07, 440, 451, 453, 464, 466-67, 516, 535, 539, 555, 556-57, 582, 585-90, 623-24, 634-38, 639, 641-42, 642n, 649-50, 657
enemy: 312, 318-19, 320, 374, 393-94, 406, 407-09, 456, 516-17, 539-40, 556n
French: 156-57, 160-61, 239, 247
Armor-versus-armor actions: 139, 161-62, 168-69, 209-12, 300-301, 304-05, 315-16, 317-18, 411-15, 434-35, 465, 559-63, 569-73, 591, 610-11, 642, 656-57, 659-60. See also Armor support.

Armored car action: 200-201, 207-08, 248-49
Armored division, organization: 590-92
Armored divisions. See also Combat commands.
1st: 112-13, 227, 305-06, 352, 354, 374-76, 385-88, 397, 398-99, 403, 406-07, 412-13, 420, 427, 428-30, 435-36, 443, 467-68, 470-73, 477-78, 487, 490-92, 544-50, 552-53, 556-57, 558-59, 564-67, 569-70, 572, 575-77, 599-600, 605-07, 614, 625-26, 638-43, 652-56, 658-59, 667-68
2d: 42, 61, 179-80, 180-81, 332, 546, 575-76
Armored Engineer Battalions
16th: 195n, 197, 210, 210n, 378n, 387n, 391n, 392n, 396n, 399, 416-17, 419n, 430n, 435, 443, 461n, 472-73, 477-78, 548n, 549n, 570n, 639-40, 642-43, 642n, 660
17th: 121
Armored Field Artillery Battalions
27th: 195n, 210n, 223, 315, 319-20, 328, 331, 378n, 433-35, 461n, 462, 638-39, 642n, 660
58th: 549n, 565n, 656n, 659
62d: 565n, 614-20
68th: 387-88, 387n, 392n, 396n, 413, 419n, 420-22, 430n, 431, 435, 461n, 462, 548n, 549n, 570n, 586-87, 660-61
78th: 121
91st: 391n, 392n, 411, 411n, 421, 430n, 431, 477-78, 550, 638-39, 656n, 659
Armored forces, Allied
Casablanca, start for: 114-15
comparison with enemy: 316-17
concept of balanced team: 291-92
critique of tactical employment: 672, 673-74
effect on enemy plans: 310
at Fedala, air attack on: 139
at Mateur: 642n
misuse at Djebel el Guessa: 329
Oran, plans for use at: 48-49
ports required for landing: 40-41
Safi, scheduled landing at: 41
strength in Allied Force: 354
transports for, availability: 44
Armored forces, enemy
merger of, in Tunis drive: 612-13, 612n
misuse: 371-72
North Tunisia, plans for use in: 602-03
tactical methods: 479-80
Tunisia area, strength in: 335-36, 371, 611, 612n, 648-49
Armored forces, French: 21, 52, 108, 230
Armored Infantry Regiments
6th: 195n, 202, 210, 210n, 218-19, 315, 319-20, 328, 332n, 378n, 387-88, 391-92, 392n, 394, 413-14, 416-17, 419n, 430n, 431, 433-34, 435, 452, 453-54, 455-56, 461n, 462-64, 549n, 554-55, 556, 565n, 570n, 620-21, 624-26, 638-39, 642n, 656n, 659, 660n
41st: 121
Armored Medical Battalion, 47th: 195n, 210n, 378n, 387n, 392n, 419n
Armored Reconnaissance Squadron, 91st: 614-21, 654-55, 656n, 659-60
Armored Regiments
1st: 210-11, 217-19, 223, 284n, 296, 298n, 299-301, 311, 314, 316-17, 326-27, 331, 332, 332n, 391n, 392, 392n, 393-94, 411-22, 411n, 430n, 432, 477-78, 505-06, 565n, 570n, 571, 634-35, 656n, 657, 659-61
3d: 150, 153, 154, 161, 162
13th: 49, 195n, 196, 210, 210n, 292, 298n, 303, 307, 307-08, 311, 315-17, 328, 331-32, 378n, 380, 387-88, 387n, 392n, 396n, 416-17, 419n, 421, 430-32, 430n, 433-35, 448-49, 449-50, 455, 461, 461n, 462-64, 546-47, 548, 548n, 549n, 570n, 572, 623-26, 642n, 655-57, 659-61
67th: 102, 116, 121, 122, 140, 144-45, 332n
Armored Signal Company, 141st: 195n, 210n, 387n
Armored Support Battalion, 1st: 210n
Army Air Forces, concept of tactical air support by: 61, 493-94, 573-74, 585n, 672-73
Army Air Forces units
XII Air Support Command: 43n, 116, 145, 150, 153, 291-92, 294, 383, 433, 467-68, 493-95, 497-98, 576-77, 649n
XII Bomber Command: 354-55, 492-93
14th Fighter Group: 293-94
31st Fighter Group: 212n
52d Fighter Group: 212n
64th Troop Carrier Group: 278-79
97th Bombardment Group: 293-94
Army Group Africa: 369-70, 374, 474-77, 509-10, 512-13, 519-21, 525, 529, 540-41, 544, 552-53, 559-60, 592, 602, 604, 610-11, 612-13, 647-48, 650-51, 663, 667
Rommel assigned as commander: 474-75, 476
Army Groups
activation: 474-77
15th: 667
18th: 354, 474-75, 485-94, 496-97, 521, 573, 576-77, 582-83, 591-600, 608-09, 613, 644-45, 652-53
Alexander assigned to command: 474-75
command structure: 486-89
disbanded: 667
plans for March: 543-45, 550-53, 556-57, 564-65, 569-71, 572-73
staff structure: 486-87
Army-Navy Joint Board, succeeded by JCS: 37
Army-Navy TORCH Committee, decisions formulated for ROOFTREE: 39

Arnim, von Gen. Juergen: 333, 338, 342, 349-50, 363, 370, 370-71, 373-74, 376, 394-95, 405-06, 409-10, 425-27, 436-37, 438-42, 455-56, 476, 479n, 501-09, 521, 523n, 535-36, 539-40, 541-42, 603, 611, 612-13, 645-50, 651, 662
Bédja, directive on: 501-04
Bédja, proposal for seizing: 441-42
Chott position, directive on: 529-30
estimate of Axis strength: 510
Gafsa, plan for: 546
Kairouan, estimate of Allied effort at: 592n
review of situation in February: 509-12
succeeds Rommel: 519
supply tonnages, estimate of: 510, 512-13
surrender of: 664-65
Tunisia, assumes command in: 326, 363
Arnold, General of the Army Henry H.: 14
Arram: 523, 527-28
Artillery support
Allied: 108, 121, 139-40, 143, 144, 145, 157-58, 157n, 159, 162-63, 164-65, 167-68, 208, 220-21, 227, 228, 230-31, 234, 303, 331, 336-37, 379, 382, 387-88, 393-94, 395-96, 406-07, 411, 413, 421, 431, 433-34, 447, 453, 454-55, 459, 462, 463-64, 466, 467, 474, 516, 518, 519, 531-533, 535, 536-37, 539ñ40, 547-48, 550, 555, 557-58, 559, 560-62, 570-71, 574, 574n, 575, 577, 581-82, 585-87, 614, 616-18, 618n, 622, 623-24, 625-26, 629-30, 632-33, 635, 638, 640, 642-43, 649, 655, 656-57, 658-59. See also Armored Field Artillery Battalions; Field Artillery Battalions.
enemy: 319-20, 374, 407-09, 413-14, 420, 449, 452-53, 453-54, 518, 556n, 558, 560-62, 571, 572, 576, 587, 588-89, 610-11, 617, 618-19, 623, 635, 636-37, 638, 640, 642-43, 659
fire on own units: 581-82
French, at Oran: 217-19, 218n
infantry fails to benefit from: 671-72
Arundel, USS. See Anne Arundel, USS
Arzew: 193, 220-21, 225
aircraft losses, French: 207-08
armored cars, French, destroyed: 207-08
artillery support, Allied: 208
city secured: 207-08
coastal defenses neutralized: 205-06
command structure, Allied: 205n
defenses of: 48
landings along gulf: 205-07
naval support at: 205
plans for seizure: 48-49
port operation: 499n
port secured: 206
prisoners, French: 207-08
Ranger force action: 205-06
topography: 47
Assault boats. See Landing craft.
Astier, d', Henri: 189
Astier de la Vigerie, d', Gen. François: 356
Atlantic, Battle of: 11
Atlantic Base Section: 495-96
Atlantic Coast: 89-180
Atlas Mountains: 89-180
Augusta, USS: 68-69, 74, 116, 128, 131, 131n, 134, 143
Aurora, HMS: 192-93, 199, 222-23
Austin, Capt. Edward: 434
Automobiles. See Motor convoy operations; Motor vehicles.
Avenger, HMS: 231-34
Aviation fuel. See POL.
Awatea, HMS: 234-36, 278
Axis forces
Allied intentions, estimate by: 322
Americans, estimate of: 582, 673-74
Arco dei Fileni conference: 323-24
armor, methods of employment: 479-80
Arnim assumes command: 326, 363
assault on II Corps: 401-22
attack, halt in: 424-27
boundaries in Tunisia: 370-72, 405-06
coastal plain, pursuit to: 539-42
collapse of in Tunisia: 659-78
command reorganization: 368-70, 441, 475, 476-77, 519-20
disposition in Tunisia: 294-95, 312-13, 333-35, 370-72, 401-02, 647-49, 650-51
February battles, objectives in: 477
France, alert in: 187
French, break with: 287-88
French shipping, use of: 367-68
Goering conference of commanders: 325-26
Hitler, directives from: 322-23, 363-64, 369-70
Hitler's review of capabilities in February: 511-12, 513-14
impressions of campaign on: 673-74
initiative during transitional period: 372
Italian shipping, supply by: 645-48
Italians, distrust of: 540-41
Italy, concern over invasion of: 601-02
Kesselring's directive to Nehring: 311, 322
Kesselring's review of capabilities in February: 509-12
lines of communication in Tunisia: 401-02
logistical support: 324-25
matériel shortages: 373-74
Mediterranean operations, responsibility for: 363-64, 368-69
Messe's review of capabilities in February: 510-11
morale, state of: 512, 541-42
Mussolini's agreement on capabilities: 513-14
north Tunisia, proposal for holding: 601-03

northeast Tunisia, pursuit to: 539-42
Ousseltia valley, tactical attitude in: 382
ports, use of in supply: 365-66
principle of mass, violation of: 479-80
Rastenburg conference: 363-64, 368
relations among troops: 528-30
reorganization for defense: 333-35
Rommel's proposal for merger: 405-06
Rommel's review of capabilities in February: 509-12
Schloss Klessheim conference of commanders: 601-02
shipping losses during campaign: 683
shipping requirements: 365
Soviet Union, proposal for compromise with: 601-602, 676
strategic decisions for Tunisia: 321-26
strength, Arnim's estimate: 510
strength, Rommel's forces, estimate of: 354n
strength in Tunisia: 291-92, 294-95, 603n, 604n
success, failure to exploit: 426-27
supply levels required: 363, 365-66, 512-13
supply shipments during campaign: 368, 682
tactical methods: 479-80
TORCH success, reaction to: 253-54
troop quality, Fischer's criticism: 315-16
troop shipments during campaign: 682, 683
Tunis, strategic importance of: 513-14
Tunis stalemate, revision of plans after: 363-72
Tunisia, estimate of capabilities in: 645-47
Tunisia, juncture of forces in: 364-65, 368-69, 371-72
Tunisia operations, directive for: 288-90, 476-77, 645-47, 665-67
Azemour: 114

Bachaquero (Maracaibo): 196-98
Badoglio, Marshal Pietro (It.): 6
Baer, Lt. Col. Dewey H.: 283
Bahiret Foussana valley: 445-46, 455-57, 460-61, 474
II Corps boundaries established: 467-68
attack, Allied: 471-73, 478
attack, enemy: 463
armor support, Allied: 463-64
artillery support, Allied: 463-64
communications, Allied: 463-64
counterattack, Allied: 464
matériel losses, Allied: 463
matériel losses, enemy: 464
reinforcements, Allied: 463, 469
Baier, Major Hans (Ger.): 662
Baker, Lt. Col. Herschel D.: 434
Bald Hill: 306-09, 373, 614-21. See also Djefna position.
Balearic Islands, enemy proposal for seizing: 601-02
Balkans, as flank security for Germany: 6
Banking activities. See Financial activities.
Barb, USS: 103
Barenthin, Col. Walther (Ger.): 289-90
Baril, Col. (Fr.): 189, 236, 239
Barlow, Major Rudolph: 223, 300
Barnegat, USS: 70, 169
Barrage de l'Oued Kébir: 330, 337, 376-83
Barrau, Gen. Jean (Fr.): 271-72
Barré, Gen. Georges (Fr.): 273, 279, 283, 286-87, 296, 298, 326-27, 330, 350-51, 650
evasion of Axis demands: 254-60, 287
forbidden to act against Axis: 287
views on support of TORCH: 78
Bassenge, Gen. Kurt (Ger.): 604, 647-48, 662
Bastico, Marshal Ettore (It.): 323, 324-25, 363-64
Batory, SS: 195-96
Battalion landing teams. See Infantry Regiments; Regimental Combat Teams.
Batterie du Lazaret: 230, 244, 246-47, 248-49
Batterie du Pont Blondin: 118, 127, 129-30
Batterie El Hank: 133, 134, 142, 145
Bayerlein, Gen. (Ger.): 519, 536, 540-42, 590, 604, 609
Bayonet attack, at Hill 369: 568
Beach matting, use of: 195
Beach organization: 192, 230-31, 245-46
Beatty, USS: 104-05
Beaufre, Capt. André (Fr.): 84
Beckett, 1st Lt. William: 218
Bédja: 259-60, 279, 287, 288-89, 290-91, 298-99, 326, 374, 379, 490, 508-09, 600-01, 604, 608
attacks on, enemy: 290-91, 293-94, 502-09
Kesselring's directive on: 501-04
railhead: 607
seizure, Arnim's proposal for: 441-42
supply point: 651
tank losses, enemy: 290-91
Bell, Ensign John J.: 103-06
Ben Gardane: 517, 522, 526-27
Ben Koceine River: 659
Benalbenech, HMS: 196, 198
Beni Kreddache: 517, 524-25, 527-28
Bennehof, Capt. Olten R. (USN): 187-88
Bennett, Rear Adm. Andrew C.: 50, 225
Benson, Col. Clarence C.: 547, 549, 556-57, 569-70, 576, 656, 660-61. See also Task Force Benson.
Bentley, Col. William C., Jr.: 212-13, 225-27
Berardi, Generale di Corpo d'Armata Paolo (It.): 527-28
Bergeret, Gen. (Fr.): 357-58
Bergeron, Gen. (Fr.): 351, 650
Bergolo, de, Gen. Calvi (It.): 546
Bermuda, HMS: 231, 248
Bernadou, USS: 97, 102-05, 114

Bernard, Lt. Col. Lyle W.: 121, 125, 129-30
Bèthouart, Maj. Gen. Émile (Fr.): 80, 92-95, 131-32, 176-77, 188, 265
Bieri, Rear Adm. Bernhard H.: 174
Billings, Major William H.: 138
Billot, Lt. Comdr. G. P. (RNR): 202, 203-04
Bir el Hafey: 348, 390-91, 409, 413, 546, 548-49
Bir Mrabott: 386-87
Bir Touta: 234-35
Bird, Capt. Edward W.: 237-38, 637-38
Birmandreïs: 240-41
Biskra: 335
Biter, HMS: 192-93
Bizerte: 17, 257-59, 272-73, 277, 280, 288-90, 295-96, 305, 365-67, 485, 501, 595, 599-600, 659-60, 662
advance beyond: 654-55
air attack, Allied: 293-94, 601
amphibious landing: 309
armor action: 659-60
artillery support, enemy: 659
attack plans, Allied: 600-601, 652-53
casualties, Allied: 309
coastal defenses: 294-95
communications, Allied: 309
counterbattery action: 654-55
defense reorganization, enemy: 333-35
engineer support: 653-54
ground observation from: 654-55
mines, employment: 653-54
reinforcements, Allied: 659-60
seizure of: 644-45, 651-55
surrender of French to enemy: 321
tank losses, Allied: 659-60
threat to, Allied: 640
withdrawal by Allies: 309
withdrawal by enemy: 654
BLACKSTONE operation: 42
BLACKSTONE Sub-Task Force: 101-15
Blade Force: 613-14
Bledsoe, Major Carl E.: 150
Blida: 294, 335
Blida airfield, seizure of: 52, 238-41
Bliss, USS. See Tasker H. Bliss, USS.
Blyskavica (destroyer): 234-35
Boissau, Gen. Robert (Fr.): 189, 193, 212n, 565
Boisson, Gen. Pierre (Fr.) 270-72, 357-58
Bolté, Brig. Gen. Charles L.: 23n
Bond, Lt. Col. Van H.: 150
Bône: 277-80, 288-89, 292, 293, 294, 323-24, 365, 402, 438-39, 440, 542-45
landing, plans for: 26-27
port facilities: 19, 278-79
seizure, Anderson's proposal for: 53
supply depot: 292-93, 607
tank maintenance center: 496-97
Booker, Pvt. Robert D.: 588n
Bordelaise Rock: 246-47
Bordj Chambi: 445, 449
Bordj Toum: 331-33, 337
Bordj Toum bridge: 307
Borowietz, Gen. Willibald (Ger.): 536-37, 648, 661
Bou Arada: 290-91, 329-30, 373, 377, 394-95, 401-02, 489-509, 510-11, 595-97, 600, 608
Bou Chebka: 381, 388, 399, 438, 441, 446, 456-57, 460-61, 462-64, 577, 607
Bou Ficha: 598, 664-65
Bou Guedra: 114
Bou Hamran: 557-59
Bou Sfer, 200-21, 213, 223
Bou Tlélis: 195-96, 198-99
Bougie: 19, 277-78, 496
Bouisseville: 193n, 200-201
Bouley, Gen. Jean (Fr.): 552n
Boundary designations
Allied: 418, 467-68, 471-73
enemy: 405-06
Bowen, Lt. Col. John W.: 338, 623
Bowen Force: 443
Bradley, Maj. Gen. Omar N.: 487, 510n, 599, 608, 613, 627, 632, 638-39, 651, 653, 656-57, 667
Bramham, HMS: 234
Brédéa: 198-99
Bremner, Lt. (RN): 219-20
Bridge construction: 198, 303, 651, 654-55
Brigade group, definition: 296n
Brilliant, HMS: 200
Bristol, USS: 134
British air units. See Royal Air Force.
British Broadcasting Corporation: 90
British Chiefs of Staff: 352-53, 354
disagreements over assault landings: 25-31
role in Combined Chiefs of Staff: 1n
views on selection of French leader: 80-81
British forces
counteroffensive against Rommel: 8, 72-73
directive placing under Eisenhower: 36, 36n
Greece, diversion to: 7
Iraq, seizure by: 7
British Joint Staff Mission: 1n
British units
First Army: 35, 50-51, 63, 291-92, 295-96, 298, 329-30, 349, 350-52, 353-54, 355, 372, 378-79, 381-83, 384, 386n, 394-95, 399, 401-02, 417, 423, 427-28, 428-30, 432, 438-39, 442-43, 448-49, 451-52, 458, 466-67, 468, 470-71, 473, 475-76, 477, 478, 485-87, 489, 492-93, 495-96, 496-97, 497n, 499n, 526, 541, 543-45, 550, 577, 578-79, 582-83, 599-600, 604-07, 608-09, 612, 643, 644-48, 662-68

Eighth Army: 7, 9, 75-77, 323-24, 363-64, 401-02, 405-06, 423-24, 469-70, 475-76, 476-77, 485-94, 496-98, 499n, 510-11, 517, 521-27, 531-34, 537-42, 543, 545-46, 550, 552, 558-59, 564, 570, 573-74, 577, 583n, 590, 591-92, 599-600, 604, 606-07, 609, 644-48, 662-63, 664-68
1st Parachute Battalion: 279, 284, 284n, 301-02
2d Parachute Battalion: 305, 309
3d Battalion, Grenadier Guards: 338-41, 343, 474, 588-89
3d Battalion, Welsh Guards: 587-89
12th Royal Horse Artillery Battalion: 379
84th Light Antiaircraft Battery: 240
457th Light Battery, Royal Artillery: 284n
Blade Force: 284-86, 287-88, 296-98, 299-301, 303-06, 311-17, 326-27
1st Guards Brigade: 308, 326-27, 330, 341-42, 394-95, 427-28, 432-33, 436-37, 442-43, 474, 508-09, 585, 588, 664
1st Parachute Brigade: 352, 374-76, 394-95, 505, 508n, 508-09
2d Armoured Brigade: 663
4th Light Armoured Brigade: 526-27
5th New Zealand Brigade: 516
8th Armoured Brigade: 526-27, 536, 541
10th Infantry Brigade: 664
10th Rifle Brigade: 284n
11th Infantry Brigade Group: 52-53, 234-36, 230-41, 296-98, 299-300, 301-03, 305, 306, 307-08, 311-12, 314-17, 329, 330, 337, 507-08
12th Infantry Brigade: 664
22d Antiaircraft Brigade: 667
22d Armoured Brigade: 650
23d Armoured Brigade: 541
26th Armoured Brigade: 432-33
36th Armoured Brigade: 442-43, 448-49, 451-52, 457, 464-65, 471, 473-74, 486-87, 587-89, 611-12
36th Infantry Brigade Group: 52, 235, 278, 279, 284, 295-96, 299, 306, 308-09, 312, 336-37, 373, 379, 394-95, 402-03, 490, 508-09, 613-14
38th Infantry Brigade: 507-08, 508n
52d Antiaircraft Brigade: 667
69th Infantry Brigade: 531
128th Infantry Brigade: 505-06, 507, 582-85, 587-88
131st Guards Brigade: 514-16
131st Infantry Brigade: 518
138th Brigade: 508-09
139th Brigade: 350n, 504-05, 508-09
151st Brigade: 531-32
152d Infantry Brigade: 514-16
153d Infantry Brigade: 514-16
154th Infantry Brigade: 514-16, 518
201st Guards Brigade: 514-16, 518, 526-27, 530, 541, 644
1st Commandos: 235-36, 240, 244-47, 248-49, 305, 309
6th Commandos: 235-37, 278-79, 308-09
5 Corps: 295-96, 329, 336, 342, 343-44, 374, 377, 383, 394-95, 402-03, 440, 469, 489-90, 550, 577, 600, 604, 608, 609, 612-13, 620-22, 638-39, 644, 645, 649-50, 661, 662-63
9 Corps: 489, 495, 577-78, 582-86, 590-91, 599, 600, 604, 609-10, 612, 645, 649-50, 662-63
10 Corps: 514, 526-27, 530, 534-36, 539-41
30 Corps: 514-16, 517, 526-27, 530, 531-35, 539, 540-41, 558-59
New Zealand Corps: 526-27, 530-31, 533-37, 558-59
1st Armoured Division: 526-27, 534-35, 541, 606-07, 644-45, 662-63
6th Armoured Division: 284, 292-93, 295, 308, 327, 336, 373, 379, 399n, 402, 427-28, 432-33, 436-37, 442-43, 468, 472-73, 489-90, 495, 582-91, 599, 606-07, 610-11, 649-50, 662-64
7th Armoured Division: 514-16, 519n, 526-27, 534-35, 541-42, 545-46, 660-61
1st Division: 489, 612, 649
4th Division: 489, 603, 612, 649-50, 662-63, 664
4th Indian Division: 526-27, 534-40, 541, 644, 649-50, 665n
46th Division: 350, 402, 490, 504-05, 506, 508-09, 550, 603, 604, 610-11
50th (Northumberland) Division: 526-27, 530-31, 534, 539-40, 541
51st (Highland) Division: 514-16, 518, 526-27, 530, 539-40, 541, 644
56th Division: 644
78th Division: 277, 278-80, 284, 287n, 292-93, 293-94, 295-96, 305-06, 336-37, 489-90, 507, 612, 620-21
Y Division: 507-08
2d New Zealand Division: 516, 519n, 526-27, 536, 566-67, 644, 664-65
Hartforce: 284, 284n
1st Parachute Regiment: 278-79
1st Derbyshire Yeomanry: 284n, 314, 403-05, 417-18, 433n, 443, 546, 650
1st Royal Sussex Regiment: 665n
2d Hampshires: 466-67
2d Lothians: 443n, 457, 464-65, 466-67, 588-89
2/5 Leicesters: 464-67
5th Leicestershire Regiment: 457
7th Guards Regiment: 307n
10th Royal Buffs: 443n, 451-52, 457, 464-65
11th Hussars: 650

12th Royal Horse Artillery: 284n
12th Royal Lancers: 663
16/5 Lancers: 402, 417, 432-33, 442-43, 452-53, 457, 466-67, 474, 589-90
17/21 Lancers Regiment: 284n, 301, 311-12, 314, 315, 316, 443n, 457, 461-62, 464-65, 466-67, 507-08, 589
50th Royal Tank Regiment: 531-32
51st Light Antiaircraft Regiment: 284n
51st Royal Tank Regiment: 582-83, 587
56th Reconnaissance Regiment: 52, 284n, 443n
72d Antitank Regiment: 284n, 442-43
93d Antitank Regiment: 442-43
138th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery: 284n
152d Artillery Regiment: 466-67
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders: 278, 306-07, 328
Coldstream Guards: 337, 338-43, 474, 589-90
East Surrey Regiment: 235, 240, 307-08, 315
Hampshire Regiment: 308, 314-15, 316, 318-19
King's Dragoon Guards: 526-27, 606-07
Lancashire Fusiliers: 235, 240, 302
Northamptonshire Regiment: 240-41, 284n, 302, 303, 306-08, 311, 315, 337, 342
Royal Buffs: 379
Royal West Kent Regiment: 240-41, 278, 284n, 308-09, 379, 380
Surrey Regiment: 303-04, 315, 316, 318-19
Royal Engineers: 589
5th Field Squadron, Royal Engineers: 284n
9th Field Squadron, Royal Engineers: 531
Broadhurst, Air Vice Marshal Harry (RAF): 535
Broich, von, Col. Fritz Freiherr (Ger.): 286n, 300-301, 407, 454-55, 467, 559-60, 565-66
Broke, HMS: 241-42, 243-44, 244n
Brooke, Gen. Sir Alan (Br.): 353, 489
Brooklyn, USS: 116, 121, 130, 134, 139
Brown, Lt. Col. C. P.: 623
Brown, Col. J. Trimble: 618
BRUSHWOOD Force: 42. See also Casablanca; Fedala.
BRUSHWOOD Sub-Task Force: 122, 172-73
Bruss, Lt. Col. Hyman: 306, 316-17, 328-29
Buchholz, Gen. Ulrich (Ger.): 366
Buelowius, Gen. Karl (Ger.): 437, 449-50, 453-55, 461-62, 463-64, 648, 662
Buerat el Hsun: 322, 323-24, 326, 338, 363, 364
Bull, Maj. Gen. Harold R.: 585-86
Bulolo, HMS: 71, 231-34
Burrough, Adm. Sir H. M. (RN): 36, 36n, 71, 234, 241
Buse, Lt. Col. (Ger.): 370-71
Butler, Col. Frederic B.: 403-05, 490, 581

Caffey, Brig. Gen. Benjamin F., Jr.: 51, 244-45, 578
Cagliari (Sardinia), air attack on: 293-94
Cairns, Lt. Col. Bogardus E.: 660-61
Calabria (Italy), principal airfields: 366n
Calvert, USS: 68, 103, 108, 111
Camardella, Major Ralph R.: 150
Camelback Mountain: 611n
Camp de la Jonquière: 142, 144
Camp St. Philippe: 223-24
Campbell, Brig. Gen. William A.: 121
Canaris, Adm. Wilhelm (Ger.): 321
Cannon, Brig. Gen. John K.: 37, 43n, 383
Canrobert: 294, 335, 494-95
Cap Bon: 598
Cap Bon peninsula: 595, 598, 599-600, 649
amphibious assault on: 645
defense by enemy: 650-51
enemy intention, estimate of: 645
prisoners, enemy: 663-64
sealing off: 644-45, 662-65
topography: 598
Cap Carbon: 192, 278
Cap Caxine: 235-36
Cap de Fedala: 127-29. See also Fedala.
Cap Falcon: 193n, 200-201, 213
Cap Farina: 660-61
Cap Figalo: 192, 196
Cap Matifou: 52, 234, 244-45, 246, 248-49
Cap Serrat: 490, 504-05, 595, 608, 614-15
Cap Sidi Ferruch: 234-35, 237-38
Capitant, Prof. Rent: 500
Capodichino (Italy): 366, 366n
Capua (Italy): 366n
Cargo transports: 43-44, 367-68
Carleton, Col. Don E.: 150, 432
Carpentier, Col. Marcel (Fr.): 337
Carr, Lt. Col. Frank F.: 659
Carroll, USS. See Charles Carroll, USS.
Cars, passenger. See Motor convoy operations; Motor vehicles.
Casablanca: 17, 179-80
advance to from Fedala: 118, 144-46
air strength, French: 118-19
air support, Allied: 133, 145
air support, French: 144-45
airfield: 41
ammunition supply: 140
antiaircraft defenses: 19
armor operations, Allied: 114-15, 143-44, 145
artillery support, Allied: 143, 144, 145
assault by Force BRUSHWOOD: 142
attack plan, Allied: 46
casualties, Allied: 143, 144
counterbattery action: 143
defenses of: 40-41, 119
French reaction: 139, 141-42
garrison strength: 118-19, 145-46
importance of preserving: 45
landing, plan for: 25, 26-29, 31

matériel captured: 143
motor convoy operations: 498-99
naval operations, Allied: 96, 133-34, 143-44
naval support, French: 96, 143
Patton's proposal to bombard: 44-45
port facilities and operations: 17-18, 40-41, 119, 180, 495-99
reinforcing convoy, arrival: 174-75
replacement depot capacity: 499
seizure of: 114-15, 116 46. See also Fedala.
seizure plans, alternate: 44-45
surrender negotiations: 131-32, 171-73
SYMBOL Conference: 352-54
target for Western TF: 40
topography: 119
unloading operations: 174-76
Cass, Brig. E. E. (Br.): 295-96, 311-12, 316-17
Castiglione: 234-35
Casualties, Allied: 582n, 591n, 592n. See also Prisoners.
Aïn Rebaou: 394n
Algerian-French Moroccan campaign: 173
Algiers: 243, 244n, 246, 248-49
Bizerte: 309
Casablanca: 143, 144, 145
Djebel Alliliga: 395n
Djebel Abiod: 283-84
Djebel Badjar: 638n
Djebel Mansour: 395n
Djedeïda: 300-301, 306-07
Mareth position: 508
El Guettar: 558, 564n, 572, 574n
El Hamma gap: 536
evacuation of: 140-41
Faïd pass: 394n
Fedala: 136-37
Hill 201: 533-34
Hill 350: 623
Hill 407: 623
Hill 609: 633-34
Kasserine pass: 477-78, 477n
Longstop Hill: 338
Maïzila pass: 395-96
Maknassy: 398, 400n, 575n
Mateur and offensive beyond: 651n, 656-57
Medjez el Bab: 302
Morocco and off Morocco coast: 172-73, 176
Oran: 204, 227
Oudna airfield: 309
Ousseltia valley: 381-82
Port-Lyautey: 164-65, 170
Safi: 109-10, 114n
Sidi Bou Zid: 415n, 422
Station de Sened: 387-88
Tébourba gap: 320n
Thala: 467n
Tunis drive: 609-10
Casualties, enemy
'Alam el Halfa: 75
Djebel Abiod: 283-84
Djedeïda: 308n
Fondouk el Aouareb: 592n
Kasserine pass: 477
Mareth position: 478-79, 542n
Médenine: 518-19
Ousseltia valley: 381-82
Sidi Bou Zid: 422
Tunisian campaign: 675-76
Casualties, French: 227-28, 373-74
Catarina Costa (It.): 257-58
Cathay, HMS: 278
Catroux, Gen. Georges (Fr.): 356, 500, 524, 669
Cavallero, Marshal Count Ugo (It.): 185-86, 255, 323-24, 325, 368, 369. See also Comando Supremo.
Cavalry Brigade, 1st Provisional: 179-80
Cekhira: 537
Censorship, in French colonies: 356
Center Naval Task Force: 36, 49. See also Naval forces, Allied.
Center Task Force
air attacks on convoy: 187
air reconnaissance against: 185-86
air support plans: 48, 50, 192-93, 204-05, 211-12
airborne support of landings: 48, 192, 210-11, 212-13
amphibious training: 62, 185
armor support: 48-49, 192, 195-99, 195n, 210n, 211
artillery support: 208
Arzew, plan for seizure of: 48-49
attack plan: 192- 93
beach organization: 192
command structure: 49, 205n
commander, selection of: 35
communications: 57, 212
convoy, detection by enemy, 185-86
convoy organization: 71
debarkation: 193-94, 197-98
employment, plans for: 46-50
first day's operations: 192-213
Fort du Nord, plan for seizing: 49
Gibraltar, arrival at: 185- 86
Golfe de Arzew, landings along: 205-07
headquarters transferred ashore: 224-25
landed force, strength: 213
landing sites, enemy confusion concerning: 186-87
landing teams, composition: 48, 199n, 202, 205
Les Andalouses, plan for seizing: 48-49, 199-202
Luftwaffe, alert against: 187
Mersa bou Zedjar, plan for seizing: 48-49, 195-99
motor vehicles landed: 213

naval action against: 187-88
naval support of: 49, 185-88, 190-91, 192-93, 205
Oggaz airfield, plan for seizing: 49
Oran, seizure of: 48-49, 192-94, 202-04, 215-27
planning, results of: 227
Ranger force in: 205-06
RESERVIST Operation: 202-04
submarine actions against: 186-87
surprise, loss of: 196-97
TORCH, departure for: 70-72
training schedule: 63
United Kingdom, departure from: 70-72
unloading operations: 198, 213-14
Z Beach, seizure of: 48-49, 206-10
Chaouach, enemy attack on: 504, 507
Charles Carroll, USS: 123, 124n, 126, 176n
Charybdis, HMS: 231-34
Chase, USS. See Samuel Chase, USS.
Chassart Teffaha: 339-43
Châtel, Gen. Yves (Fr.): 17, 265-66, 357-58
Cheadle, Col. Henry B.: 208, 221
Cheguimi: 522-23
Chemaïa: 112
Chenango, USS: 111, 145, 150, 153, 165-67
Cheragas: 235, 238-39
Cherchara River valley: 463
Cherchel: 234
Cherchel meeting of Allied commanders: 81-83
Cherqui: 118, 128-30, 131
Cheylus: 649, 650-51
Chittenden, Capt. A. 0.: 160-61
Chott, definition: 282, 322
Chott el Fedjadj: 523-24
Chott el Guettar: 556-57, 560-62, 567
Chott position: 322-23, 523-24
air support, enemy: 529
artillery strength, Allied: 614
artillery support, enemy: 576
attack by Allies: 570, 575
battle for: 485, 535-39
defense, Comando Supremo directive on: 512
defense, Rommel's proposal for: 528-29
defense by enemy: 511, 529-30
drive through, Allied: 613-27, 642-43, 648-52, 658, 661
mines, employment: 576
night operations: 576
strength, enemy, estimate of: 543
topography: 537-38
vulnerability: 537-38
withdrawal to and from, by enemy: 561, 576-77
Chouïgui pass: 296-308, 311-16, 326, 339, 600-601, 658, 661
air attack, enemy: 300
armor support, Allied: 314
armored action: 300, 301-02, 642
counterattack, enemy: 311-21
counterbattery action: 313-14
reconnaissance, Allied: 300-301
repulse, Allied: 314
seizure by Allies: 657-58, 661
tank losses, Allied: 301, 314
tank losses, enemy: 301
withdrawal by enemy: 300
Christmas Hill. See Longstop Hill.
Churchill, Winston: 266-68, 352-54
breaks TORCH deadlocks: 13
Eisenhower's political decisions, approval of: 272n
North African Agreement, support of: 270
Roosevelt conversations regarding TORCH: 28-29
Stalin conversations on TORCH: 29
strategic analysis for 1942-43: 10-13
Ciano, Count Galeazzo: 255-56
Città di Napoli (It.): 257-58
Civil affairs: 16. See also Political situation.
administration of, plans for: 57-59
military control, transfer to: 17
in Morocco, after surrender: 177-78
in Oran: 225-27
planning for: 57-59
political officers of French colonies: 17
staff composition: 58-59
Civilians, behavior at Safi: 108-09
Clan MacTaggart, HMS: 199
Clark, Maj. Gen. J. G. W. (Br.): 292, 496
Clark, Maj. Gen. Mark W.: 28, 47, 63, 66, 84, 252, 292, 350-51, 354, 357, 358
appointed Deputy CinC: 52
directive to for Giraud conversations: 81
negotiations with Darlan: 262-69
relinquishes command of II Corps: 35
role in contacting French leader: 81-83
Clark-Darlan Agreement. See North African Agreement.
Clark-Darlan negotiations: 262-69
Clarke, Col. Brien: 55
Close air support. See Air support.
Cloud, Major Eugene H.: 9 0
Clutterbuck, Maj. Gen. W. E. (Br.): 612
Clymer, USS. See George Clymer, USS.
Coast Guard vessels: 202n
Coastal Air Forces: 493-94
Coastal defenses
Algiers 51-52, 230, 234-35, 236, 242-43, 244
Arzew: 48, 205-06
Bizerte: 294-95
Casablanca: 119
Fedala: 118, 127, 129-30, 133-34
Les Andalouses: 201-02

Mehdia: 154, 156
Oran: 48, 192-94, 203-04, 223
Port-Lyautey: 147-49
rehabilitated ports: 180
Safi: 97-101
Tunisia area: 294-95
Coastal features of Northwest Africa: 17-19
Coastal plain, battle for: 530-33, 539-42
Cocke, Capt. Philip St. G.: 331-32
Cole, Lt. Col. Lydon B.: 659
Cole, USS: 97, 102-03, 104, 105, 114
Collaborationists: 500, 669-70
Colonies, Northwest African. See French colonies.
Combat Commands. See also Armored Divisions.
A, 1st Armored Division: 381-82, 391, 393-94, 399, 403, 409-10, 428-32, 435-37, 472-73, 548-51, 564-65, 565n, 572, 591, 595-97, 606-07, 641-43, 652-53, 656, 656n, 659
B, 1st Armored Division: 49, 63, 195-96, 195n, 198, 205, 206-07, 208, 209-12, 213, 216-23, 291-92, 308, 315-17, 326-32, 332n, 336, 374-87, 394-95, 398-99, 403, 416-17, 427-36, 456-57, 460-61, 463-68, 473-74, 478, 546-47, 548, 550-51, 553-55, 575, 606-07, 627, 638-39, 641-43, 651-53, 656-57, 659-60, 660-61, 660n
B, 2d Armored Division: 42, 102, 114-15, 116, 145
C, 1st Armored Division: 387-88, 393, 395-96, 399, 403, 416-17, 418-21, 428-32, 430n, 435, 436, 478, 548-52, 549n, 553-55, 572, 575
D, 1st Armored Division: 388, 396-99
Combat teams, regimental. See Regimental Combat Teams.
Comando Supremo: 261, 288-89, 363-64, 406, 423, 441, 456, 469-70, 476, 521-22
Ambrosio succeeds Cavallero: 369-70
Chott position, directive on: 512, 529-30
Corsica, plan for seizing: 187
Eastern Dorsal, plan for controlling: 386
Egypt, plan for attack on: 4, 7
Gafsa attack, directive on: 406
German forces, control of: 6-7, 9
German General with, as liaison officer: 369-70
Kesselring, relation to: 369
Mareth position, directive on: 512
Mediterranean operations, hypothetical control of: 73-74, 363-64, 512
reorganization: 7
Rommel, relations with: 9n, 324-25, 363-64, 405-06, 476n, 479n, 502-04, 528-29
Sidi Bou Zid, directive on: 438-40
supply capability, estimate of: 512-13
Tébessa, Rommel's proposal for seizing: 438-41, 442, 455-56
Tébessa attack, directive on: 440-41, 453
Tunisia operations, directive on: 476-77
Combined Chiefs of Staff: 352-54, 361
Allied-French arrangements, approval of: 268
command structure proposed for TORCH: 14
commander for TORCH, selection of: 15
composition and mission: 1n
compromise and agreement on TORCH: 13
disagreements over landings: 16, 25-31
North African Agreement, approval of: 269-70
northern Tunisia, attack plan, approval of: 599
ROOFTREE, decisions formulated for: 39
West Africa, approval of agreement with: 271
Combined Operations Training Center (Br.): 62
Combined Planning Staff: 25-31
Command relations
Allied: 264-66, 298, 335, 350, 600n
enemy: 6-7, 9, 9n, 260-61, 369
French: 93-94, 272-73
Command structure, Allied
18th Army Group: 486-89
for air command: 383-84, 492-95
air commander, relation to CinC: 37
British forces, directive placing under CinC: 36, 36n
in Center TF: 49, 205n
chain of command, organization: 32-37
Commander in Chief, relations with other services: 33-35
directive on command and transfer of control: 38, 39
in Eastern TF: 51, 53
field command, reorganization of: 382-86, 485-89
Giraud's conditions for support of TORCH: 82-83
joint operations, transfer of command in: 39
Kasserine reorganization: 470-71, 474-76
MTOUSA, reorganization in: 352-58
naval forces, command of: 36, 37-38
Ousseltia valley, conflict in: 380-81
system proposed by CCS for TORCH: 13-14
in task forces: 33-35
in Western TF: 137
Command structure, enemy
defects in Axis system: 77
direct communication, Hitler's authorization: 529n
discretionary authority of commander, lack of: 76
Kasserine reorganization: 474-75, 476-77
Médenine reorganization: 519-20
Tébessa reorganization: 441
for Tunisia area: 368-70, 648-49
Command, unity of
Axis lack of, factor in defeat: 77, 405-06
established by Allied directive: 38-39
TORCH, a test of: 39
Commander in Chief, Allied Air Forces: 354-55

Commander in Chief, Allied Force: 174, 354. See also Allied Force Headquarters; Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight D.
Alexander, directive to: 485-87
Anderson, directive to: 381-85
assumes direct command: 350-51
British forces, directive authorizing control of: 36, 36n
Combined Chiefs of Staff, selection by: 15
command relations with other services: 33-35, 37, 38-39
deputy, appointment of: 32
directive on mission: 15, 16
directive on use of II Corps: 599-600, 600n, 601
French commanders, approval of assignment of: 265-66
Gibraltar headquarters: 84
Giraud's demand for position: 337-38
Marshall, proposed for: 15
North African Agreement, role under: 269-71
Patton, directive to: 487-89
political responsibilities: 55, 269, 272, 272n
powers, President's restriction on: 270-71
reviews of situation, periodic: 309, 320-21, 329-30, 403-05, 417
Roosevelt statement on arrangements with Darlan: 268
title, designation of: 32
West Africa, negotiations for collaboration of: 270-72
Commander in Chief, Levant (Br.) 354
Commander in Chief, Libya (It.): 7, 9n
Commander in Chief, Mediterranean (Br.): 354
Commander in Chief, Middle East (Br.): 354
Commander in Chief, Naval Expeditionary Force: 354
Commander in Chief, South: 9, 289-90, 317-18, 365, 438-40, 441-42. See also Kesselring, Marshal Albert.
Commando units: 52, 277. See also Ranger units.
Commodities. See Consumer goods.
Communications
Allied: 137-38, 159-60, 222-23, 235, 419-22, 451, 457-58, 464, 485-86, 517-18, 647-48
enemy: 312
Communications equipment, lack of in Force BRUSHWOOD: 139
Communications failure
Allied: 161, 198-99, 212, 216, 219, 237-38, 280, 309, 316-17, 341-42, 411, 421-22, 432, 455, 461-62, 463, 465-66, 494, 636-37
enemy: 379-80
Communications Zone, reorganization of: 494-99
Communist infiltration: 356
Compass, need for training in use of: 671-72
Coningham, Air Marshal Sir Arthur (RAF): 383-84, 492-93, 494-95, 573
Constantine: 358-59, 277, 327-28, 330, 350-52, 365, 417, 485-86, 492-93, 495-98
II Corps headquarters established: 371
medical facilities: 376
motor transport reserve at: 496-97
railway capacity: 498
Consumer goods, plan for controlling: 58
Contessa, SS: 44, 68, 69, 150, 169
Convolvulus, HMS: 234
Convoys, motor
attack on, in French reinforcement of Safi: 110-14
capacities of: 498-99
movement of II Corps to north flank: 604-07
Convoys, naval: 68-72, 90
Conway, Major Theodore J.: 150
Copland-Griffith, Brig. F. A. V. (Br.): 326-27, 508-09
Corps, II: 350-55, 380-86, 391, 398, 402-23, 427-28, 435, 440, 443, 451, 453-71, 473, 478, 485-98, 519-22, 525, 538-39, 549, 556-57, 558-59, 565-77, 582-83, 592-607, 644-51
air attack on headquarters: 573
air support: 573-74
assault on: 401-22
Bradley succeeds Patton: 608
Chouïgui, drive through: 613-27
Constantine headquarters established: 374
directive on use of: 599, 600n, 604
Eastern Dorsal, defense measures at: 398-400
Eastern Dorsal, mission at: 591-92
flank protection mission: 385-86
Gafsa order of battle: 546
intelligence estimates by: 401
Mateur, drive on and beyond: 613-43, 654-59
northern flank, movement to: 604-07
northern flank offensive: 614-43
Oran, plans for seizing: 46-50
Patton succeeds Fredendall: 487-89, 490-92, 545
plans for March: 543-47, 550-53, 556-57, 564-65, 569-71, 572-73
Sfax order of battle: 374-76
staff composition: 374n, 545n
task force assignment: 35
Tunis drive: 609-13, 649-51
Corsica, enemy plan for seizure: 187, 255-56
Cota, Col. Norman D.: 47
Coulteux de Caumont, de, Col. Guy (Fr.): 287-88
Counterbattery action: 143, 163, 223, 313-15, 392, 420-21, 452-53, 589-90, 654-55. See also Artillery support.
Cowdray, HMS: 235, 246, 248-49
Cowie, USS: 69, 114, 169
Coxen's Farm: 301-02, 309
Craig, Brig. Gen. Howard A,: 383-84
Cramer, Generalleutnant Hans (Ger.): 516, 516n, 611

Crandall, Capt. Robert W.: 124
Crane, Brig. Gen. John A.: 546
Crane, Brig. Gen. William C.: 486-87
Craw, Col. Demas T.: 150, 154-55
Crawford, Lt. Col. Joseph B.: 150, 460-61
Crete: 7, 73
Crocker, Lt. Gen. Sir John (Br.): 489, 582-91, 610-11
Crosby, Col. Ben: 396n, 430-31, 656
Cross-Channel attack: 11-14, 73, 676-77
Culbert, Frederick P.: 177
Cunningham, Adm. Sir Andrew Browne (Br.): 36, 84, 264-66, 354, 669
Currency, exchange rates established: 361-62. See also Financial activities.
Cyrenaica, assembly of enemy forces for attack on Egypt: 4

Dabney, Col. John A.: 374n, 457-58
Dakar: 10, 74, 271
Dallas, USS: 152, 158, 164-67, 170
Damesme: 208
Darlan, Adm. Jean François (Fr.): 141, 171, 176-77, 178, 257-58
Allied command assignment 265-69, 272
arrest by Allies: 263
assassination: 355, 357
attitude toward Allies: 249-51
directive from Pétain: 251
distrust of by Fighting French: 355-56
effect of death on French-Allied relations: 357-58
French preference for: 356
issues neutrality order: 263-64
liaison with Luftwaffe: 254-55
military for civil posts, substitutes: 17
order to resist Axis: 264
political reforms instituted: 356-57
Roosevelt's statement on arrangements with: 268
succeeded by Giraud: 355-59
surrender negotiations authorizes: 251
TORCH role in support of: 77-82
Darby, Lt. Col. William O.: 205-06
Darlan-Clark negotiations: 262-69
Dasher, HMS: 192-93
Davidson, Rear Adm. Lyal A.: 70, 104, 109, 111
Davis, Lt. Col. Kermit Le V.: 143
Debarkation operations: 68, 71, 103-04, 106-07, 123-26, 130, 136, 140-41, 153, 155, 157-59, 193-94, 197-98, 217, 235-36, 237-38, 240-41, 243, 245-47, 248. See also Ports, operation of; Unloading operations.
Deception in concentrations at Massicault: 644-48
Decisions, political: 31, 272n
Decisions, strategic
on Allied seizure of Northwest Africa: 25-31
by Axis for Tunisia: 321-26
concept of Allied operations determined: 29-30
final decisions reached by Allies 31
Decisions, tactical, for ROOFTREE: 39
Deichmann, Gen. Paul (Ger.): 261, 479
Delay, Gen. (Fr.): 272-73
Delhi, HMS: 192-93
Deligne, Gen. Agathon (Fr.): 273, 379-81
Demarais, Lt. Col. Hubert (Fr.): 578n
Demolitions, use of: 289, 417-18, 435-36, 437, 453, 642-43
Dempo, HMS: 235, 248
Denholm, Lt. Col. Charles J.: 634-37
Dentz, Gen. Henri F. (Fr.): 286-87
Depienne: 309
Derbyshire, HMS: 209-10
Dernaïa: 441, 443
De Rohan, Col. Frederick J.: 150, 156, 167, 548, 549, 553-54
Derrien, Adm. Louis (Fr.): 258-59, 260, 286, 294-95, 321
Desré, Brig. Gen. Raymond (Fr.): 94, 171-72
Deutsches Marinekommando Italien. See German Naval Command, Italy.
Deuve, Major (Fr.): 100
Dewdale, HMS: 234
Dewoitine fighter plane: 4n
Dick, Capt. Royer M. (RN): 262
Dickman, USS. See Joseph T. Dickman, USS.
Dickson, Col. B. A.: 374n, 401, 553
Dilley, Major John H.: 156-58, 168
Disher, Harold Leo: 202n
Dive bomber, defeat by Allied antiaircraft: 574, 574n
Dix, USS. See Dorothea L. Dix, USS.
Djebel, definition: 47n
Djebels
Aboid: 279, 283-81, 291, 296, 299, 330, 373-74, 490, 502-05, 508, 512, 604, 607, 651
Adjred. See Bald Hill.
Aïn el Rhorab: 579-80, 582, 583-89
Aïnchouna: 615-21, 640
Alliliga: 394-95, 395n
Azag. See Green Hill.
Badjar: 622-23, 625 26, 638-39, 638n, 642
Gargou: 377-78, 379-80, 423, 490
Bateune Slama: 624
Bech Chekaoui: 603, 620-21
Bel Harch: 505
Ben Kheïr: 559-60, 564-65, 572-73
Berda: 544-45, 557-69, 571, 572-73, 574-75
Berboukr. See Hill 469.
Bireno: 445-46, 464-65, 474
Bou Achour. See Hill 394.
Bou Aoukaz: 328-30, 612
artillery support, Allied: 649
attack by Allies: 512-13
seizure by Allies: 645, 648-49
withdrawal, Allied: 331-32
Bou Dabouss: 370-71, 379
Bou Douaou: 544-45, 552-55, 565-66

Bou Dzer: 388-90, 393
Bou Hedma: 398, 553-54
Bou Keurnine: 611n
Bou Mouss. See Grenadier Hill.
Bou Smail: 565-66
Boudinar: 390-91
Chambi: 441, 444-45, 451, 456-57, 463, 474, 490
Chemsi: 557, 564-65, 572-73
Cheniti: 615-16, 653, 671-72
Chirich: 377, 598, 600, 611, 611n
Dardyss: 603, 615-16, 619-20
Dir: 273
Djebs (Nos. 1 and 2): 553-55, 572
Dribica: 553-55
ech Cherichera: 578-79, 580-81
el Abeid: 418
el Adjered: 445-46, 463-64
el Ahmera. See Longstop Hill.
el Akrat: 615-16
el Ang: 327, 330, 504, 506-07, 612, 620-21
el Ank: 557-58, 569
el Anz: 622-23, 625-27, 633-34, 635, 638
el Aouareb: 579-87, 589-90
el Asker: 565-66
el Asoud: 328, 329-30, 331-32
el Beida. See Hill 407.
el Berakine: 622-23, 625-26
el Djeriri: 582
el Facuar. See Hill 558.
el Garsia: 618
el Guessa: 326-30, 337
air support, enemy, 328
armor action: 328-29
attack plan, enemy: 327-28
battle for: 328-30
tactical value: 328
tank losses, enemy: 328
el Hara: 627
el Kebar: 419-21
el Kheroua: 558, 564-68, 567n, 570-71, 574
el Koumin: 433-34
el Mcheltat: 557-60, 564-71
el Rhar: 339-43
er Roumana: 537-40
es Sif: 445-46
es Stah: 538-39
Fkirine: 281-82, 337, 600, 611, 611n
Garci: 609
Garet Hadid: 390, 409-11, 419, 424-26, 477-78
Gouleb: 388
Goussa: 544, 549-50, 554-55
Grembil: 620-21, 627
Guermach: 640
Haidoudi: 538-39
Halfa: 377
Hallouf: 580-82
Halouga: 523-24, 535, 536-37
Hamadi: 565-66, 569
Hamra: 414-15, 419, 421, 424, 428-32, 445-46, 457-58, 460-62, 472-73
air action: 419-20, 462, 470
aircraft losses, enemy: 462
antiaircraft defenses, Allied: 462
attack by enemy: 424, 425-26, 461-62, 501
defense by Allies: 460, 463
dispositions, Allied: 462
night operations: 462-63
prisoners, Allied: 424
tank losses, Allied: 462
Ichkeul: 642, 648, 655, 662
Khar: 207
Kouif: 472-73, 487, 490
Ksaira: 390-91, 393, 394, 411-16, 419-21, 424-26, 460-61, 477-78
Lanserine: 311-12, 326, 333, 620-21, 636, 638-39
Lessouda: 390, 391-92, 410-11, 407-31
Lettouchi: 567n, 568, 570-71
Madjoura: 549
Maiana. See Hill 186.
Maizila: 575
Mansour: 376-83, 394-95, 395n, 507-08, 510-11, 595-98, 600, 603, 611, 611n
Matleg: 398, 412-13
Mdilla: 547-48
Melab: 527-28, 535, 536-37
Meloussi: 399, 413
Mrhila: 428-30, 459-60
Murdjadjo: 198-99, 201-02, 216, 219, 224-25
Naemia: 553-55
Nechat el Maza. See Hill 406.
Nobueza: 445-46, 462
Orbata: 525, 544-45, 556-58
Ousselat: 377, 379, 381, 582-83, 591, 592n
Rheradok: 435
Rihane: 373-74, 504, 507-08, 510
Rmel. See Hill 350
Sabel Dilou: 433-35
Saikra: 523
Santon: 193, 201-02, 213
Semmama: 444-56, 474, 490
Serdj: 381, 490
Sidi Khalif: 388-91, 392, 394
Sidi Meftah: 622-23, 625-27
Souinia: 546-47, 548
Tahent. See Hill 609.
Tebaga Fatnassa: 523-24, 527-28, 533-35, 538-39, 564-65
Touil: 582, 586
Touro: 620, 639
Touto: 622-23, 625-26

Trozza: 399, 418, 427-28, 509, 578-80
Zarhouan: 337, 347-48, 598, 611n
Zebbeus (Hill 812): 445-51, 454-55, 474, 544, 553-55
Djebibina: 598, 644-45
Djedeïda: 296-306, 311-15, 326, 336-37, 343-44, 595-97, 620-21, 649-50, 652-53, 661
air action: 304-06, 307-09, 649
aircraft losses, enemy: 300-301
airfield, destruction by Allies: 307
airfield, occupation by enemy: 302
ambush of Allied forces: 306-07
armor attack on enemy aircraft: 300-301
armor support, Allied: 307
artillery support, Allied: 307-08
attack plan, Allied: 305-06
battle for: 304-10
casualties, enemy: 308n
defense organization, enemy: 307
motor vehicle losses, Allied: 306-07
prisoners, Allied: 306--07
reconnaissance, Allied: 307
reinforcements, Allied: 307
repulse, Allied: 307-09
strategic value: 283, 289-90
tank losses, Allied: 300-301, 307
topography: 307
Djefna: 299, 306-07, 309, 333, 502-05
Djefna position
air support, Allied: 640, 640n
ammunition shortage, enemy: 640-41
artillery support, Allied: 616-18, 618n, 640n
artillery support, enemy: 617, 618-19, 640
attack on, Allied: 373, 600-601, 603, 614-21, 639-43
counterattack, enemy: 373-74
defensive measures, enemy: 622
dispositions, enemy: 616-17, 617n, 621-22
ground observation: 640
highway system: 615-16
reconnaissance, Allied: 617
strength, enemy: 616-17
supply lines, enemy, threats to: 616-17, 640-41
supply problems, Allied: 619-20
withdrawal by enemy: 640-41
Djeloula pass: 591
Djerissa: 490
Djidjelli: 277-78
Djoumine River: 280, 620-21
Dody, Maj. Gen. Andre (Fr.): 92, 132, 141
Doenitz, Adm. Karl (Ger.): 513-14
Doolittle, Brig. Gen. James H.: 37, 46, 71n, 84, 294, 492-93
Dorothea L. Dix, USS: 106, 111
Douar Gournata: 660
Douglas, Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto (RAF): 354-55
Douimis River: 615-16, 653
Dovera: 234-35
Doyle, Lt. Col. Edward J.: 237-39
Draa Saada el Hamra: 567, 567n, 568-69
Draft Outline Plan (Partial) for TORCH: 27
Drainage systems: 18-19, 52, 116-17, 281-82, 303-04, 348-49, 428, 445-46, 522-23
Drake, Col. Thomas D.: 396, 403, 411, 419, 424, 490
Dressendorfer, Lt. D. C. (USN): 167
DRYSHOD operation: 63
Duke of York, HMS: 185
Dunphie, Brig. Charles A. L. (Br.): 432-33, 442-43, 451-65, 471
Durban Castle, HMS: 209-10
Duvivier: 278-79
Duzerville: 278-79

Eagles, Brig. Gen. William W.: 121, 128, 172-73
Eastburn, Lt. Col. Charley P.: 453-54
Eastern Air Command, 278-79, 308, 354-55, 492
commander, selection of: 37
landings, mission in supporting: 37
organization difficulties: 280
plan for build-up of: 54
Eastern Air Force: 279-80
Eastern Assault Force: 35, 50-54
Eastern Base Section, 495-99, 501, 516, 607
Eastern Dorsal: 281-83, 347-48, 372, 423, 427, 485, 486-87, 578-92
Allied swing from: 427-30
attack by Allies: 337, 564
attack plans, Allied and enemy: 386-88
defensive measures, Allied: 378-79, 398-400
enemy forces established: 333-35, 392
French attacks: 373-74
maneuvering for advantage on: 373-400
mission of II Corps: 591-92
plans for controlling, Allied and enemy: 386-88, 401-02, 406-07
reinforcements, Allied: 377-78
reinforcements, enemy: 373-74
topography: 553-54
Eastern Naval Task Force: 36, 231-34, 248, 254. See also Naval forces, Allied.
Eastern Task Force
air attack on: 278
air reconnaissance against: 185-86
air support of: 53-54, 279-80
airborne support of: 53-54
Algiers, departure from: 277-78
Algiers, seizure of: 50-54, 229-52
amphibious training: 62, 185
Anderson assumes command: 252
command structure: 35, 50-51, 53

commander's mission: 51
commando units in: 52
confusion in landings: 236-39, 246-47
convoy: 71, 185-86, 187, 234
departure for TORCH: 70-72
eastern landings: 244-49
first day's operations: 240-41, 251
force landed: 234-35
Gibraltar, arrival at: 185-86
landing force, strength: 234-36, 241, 244-45
landing sites, enemy confusion as to: 186-87
line of communications: 309
Luftwaffe, alert of against: 187
mission: 35
naval action against: 186, 187-88
naval losses: 278
naval support of: 185-86
progress rate, anticipated: 54
redesignated British First Army: 350-51
reinforcement, plans for: 53n
reorganization for drive on Tunis: 291-92
shipping for, shortage of: 53
submarine actions against: 186-87
TERMINAL Force operations: 241-45
Tunis, preparations for drive on: 277-98
Tunisia, advance into: 253, 277-80
United Kingdom, departure from: 70-72
western landings: 235-38
Ebba Ksour: 281, 417
Eberle, USS: 155, 165-67
Economic Accord of March 1941: 23
Eddekhila: 642-43, 650-51, 658-59, 665-67
Eddy, Maj, Gen. Manton S.: 66, 490-92, 567n, 568, 571, 614-15, 653
Eddy, Lt. Col. William A. (USMC): 24, 55, 212n
Edgar, Capt. Campbell D. (USN): 245-46
Edward Rutledge, USS: 175-76
Edwards, Lt. T. E. (RN): 199
Egypt, battle for: 4, 7, 10, 75-77
Eighth Fleet (U.S.): 354-55
Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight D.: 71, 264-65, 266-68, 292, 343-44, 349-57, 358, 362, 378, 382-84, 386-87, 401-02, 403-05, 417, 470-71, 487, 545, 556, 590-91, 599, 669. See also Allied Force Headquarters; Commander in Chief, Allied Force.
Commander in Chief, selection as: 15
French commanders, approves assignment of: 265-66
French leader, views on acceptance of: 80-81
French officers, action on plight of: 177
Giraud, conference with: 189-92
North African Agreement, view on: 269n, 270n
Outline Plan for TORCH, reaction to: 27-31
political affairs, role in: 55, 269
El Agheila: 8
El Ala: 399, 416-17, 509
El 'Alamein: 9, 72-73, 75-77, 322, 324, 524-25, 672-73
El Alia: 650-51, 659-60, 661
El Ancor: 200-201, 213
El Aouana: 504-05
El Aouïna: 255, 257, 293-94, 366, 649
El Aroussa
air action: 291
attack by enemy: 502-04, 507-08
counterattack, Allied: 508-09
occupation and withdrawal by enemy: 290-91
El Azib: 659-60
El Bahira lake: 598
El Bathan: 290-91, 296, 299-305, 307-08, 311-20, 327-28, 336, 337, 595-97, 600
El Gazala line: 8
El Guettar: 335, 371-72, 403-05, 409-10, 425, 536, 537-40, 541, 553-54, 604
air action, Allied: 558-59, 562, 577
air action, enemy: 558, 560-62, 565-66, 572, 574n
armor action: 556-57, 559-63, 569-73
artillery support, Allied: 557-58, 559, 560-62, 570-71, 574, 574n, 575, 577
artillery support, enemy: 558, 560-62, 565-66, 571, 572
attack by Allies: 550-51, 552-53, 556-57, 564-75
battle for: 556-77
casualties, Allied: 558, 564n, 572, 574n
counterattack, enemy: 559-63
defense by Allies: 574
dispositions, enemy: 565-66, 569-71
engineer support: 574
intelligence estimates, enemy: 565-66
matériel losses, Allied: 558, 560n, 571
mines, employment: 558, 560-62, 571
motor column, enemy, routed: 289
night operations: 557-63
operations beyond: 564-77
prisoners, enemy: 557-58
reconnaissance, Allied: 547
reconnaissance, enemy: 559-60
seizure by Allies: 386-87, 547-48
supply methods, Allied: 574
tank losses, Allied: 571-72
tank losses, enemy: 560-62, 571
topography: 556-57
withdrawal by enemy: 574-77
El Hafay: 557, 564-65
El Hamma gap
air action, Allied: 533, 535-37, 672-73
armor support, Allied: 535
artillery support, Allied: 535-37
attack by Allies: 523-27, 530-31, 533-37, 564
casualties, Allied: 536

counterattack, enemy: 536-37
defense by enemy: 526-27, 533-34, 536-37
Mareth position, as approach to: 525-26
night operations: 526
reinforcements, Allied: 534-35
reinforcements, enemy: 536-37
secured by Allies: 537
Shenandoah Valley, comparison with: 525
smoke, employment: 536-37
El Hamma River: 663
El Ma el Abiod: 427, 436, 438, 441, 443, 456-57, 490, 543, 546
Electra, USS: 153
Elizabeth C. Stanton, USS: 176n
Elmas (Sardinia): 293-94
Emmett, Capt. R. R. M. (USN): 121, 123-24, 130, 136
En Nekala: 208, 217
Enchantress, HMS: 234
Enfidaville: 333-35, 510-11, 595, 598, 600, 603, 644, 650-51, 665
Enfidaville position: 541-42, 598, 599-600, 602-03, 609
Engineer Amphibian Brigade, 1st: 50, 62, 195n
Engineer Aviation Battalion, 871st: 167-68
Engineer Boat Maintenance Company, 561st: 62
Engineer Boat Regiment, 591st: 195n, 210, 210n
Engineer Combat Battalions. See also Armored Engineer Battalions.
1st: 463, 546-47
10th: 121
15th: 549n, 653-54
19th: 213, 418, 433
109th: 411, 582
540th: 167
Engineer Combat Regiments
15th: 164-65, 167-68
16th: 331
19th: 216, 217, 443, 446, 447, 450-51, 452, 546-47, 574
20th: 122, 138, 165, 653-54
36th: 42, 121
Engineer Shore Regiment, 531st: 199n
Engineer Special Brigade, 1st: 49
Engineer support in combat: 410-11, 418, 531, 574, 589, 642-43, 653-54
England. See United Kingdom.
Enright, Lt. Col. C. F.: 567n
Equipment, unit, for TORCH: 62
Er Rahel: 198
Er Refifida: 144
Er Rif mountains: 17
Erickson, Capt. Ray: 582
Estéva, Vice Adm. Jean-Pierre (Fr.): 259-60, 286-87
evasive action toward Axis: 286-87
liaison with Luftwaffe: 254-55
Resident General for Tunisia: 17
support of TORCH, views on: 78
Ethiopia, projected attack on Egypt from: 4
Ettrick, HMS: 207
Evans, Maj. John B: 107
Evelegh, Maj. Gen. Vyvyan (Br.): 71, 240, 277, 280, 295-96, 305-10, 315-16, 331-32, 507, 612
Exceller, USS: 235, 244-45, 246
Exchange rates for local currency: 362
Ez Zerkin wadi: 528
Ez Zouara River: 502-04

Factionalism in French forces: 355-56, 358-61, 500, 669-71
Faïd: 282-83, 401-02, 406-10, 412, 423-24, 544, 550, 590
air attack, enemy: 391-92
counterattack, Allied: 391-92, 401-02
reconnaissance, Allied: 391-92
reinforcements, Allied: 391
security measures, enemy: 394
seizure by enemy: 391
Faïd pass: 335, 390-91, 393-94, 407-09, 410-13, 544, 606-07
air action, Allied: 391-92, 411-13
armor action: 411-12
artillery support, Allied: 411
artillery support, enemy: 411-12
attack by enemy: 388, 392-93
casualties, Allied: 394n
control, enemy plans for: 386
counterattack, Allied: 399n
counterbattery action: 392
defense plans, Allied: 386-88, 399-400
French complaints of American tardiness: 392-93
loss of, effect on Allies: 399
matériel losses, Allied: 394n
prisoners, Allied: 394n
pyrotechnics, use of: 391
recapture, Allied plans for: 401-02
reconnaissance, enemy: 412-13
reinforcements, enemy: 392
security measures, enemy: 388-90
seizure by Allies: 327
tank losses, Allied: 392
tank losses, enemy: 391
topography: 388-90
Falugi, Generale di Brigata Giuseppe (It.): 527-28
Fancourt, Capt H. L. St. J. (RN): 241
Farndale, HMS: 217
Fechet, Col. d'Alary: 380-81, 547
Fedala: 179-80. See also Cap de Fedala.
advance from to Casablanca: 118, 144-46
advance inland: 137-42

air attacks on armor: 139
air support at: 116, 119-21
aircraft losses, Allied and French: 139, 139n
antiaircraft operations: 118, 128, 139
armor support: 116, 121, 128-29, 139
artillery support: 121
attack near coast: 142
beach organization: 117-18
casualties, Allied: 136
coastal batteries, defense by: 118, 127-30, 133-34
command structure: 137
communications, Allied: 137-38
composition of assault force: 121
debarkation at: 123-26, 130, 136, 140-41
drainage system: 116-17
garrison strength: 118
landing craft losses: 125-26, 131, 135
landing site, selection as: 46
landings at: 123-27, 129-30, 130-31
main effort, target of: 41
maneuver plan: 121-22, 124-25, 136
naval action: 133-34
naval defense, French: 118, 133-34
naval support: 116, 127-28, 130, 131-32
patrol operations: 139
port facilities: 41, 116-17, 135-36, 137
prisoners, French: 130-31
reaction of French forces: 125, 131-33
searchlight employment: 125, 130-31
secured by Allies: 127
security measures: 136-37
seizure by Allies: 116-46. See also Casablanca.
shore parties: 135, 137
strength of assault force: 121
submarine action: 134
supply dump establishment: 140-41
topography: 116-18
troop transports for: 119-21
unloading operations: 126, 134-37, 140-41, 144-45, 174-75
Feil, Major Frederick C.: 103
Fenard, Vice Adm. Raymond (Fr.): 17, 78
Ferenbaugh, Col. Claude B.: 46, 224
Fériana: 282-83, 348, 388, 399, 401-02, 403-05, 413, 417-18, 424, 425, 427-28, 441, 451, 470, 477, 478, 546-47
air attack, Allied: 470
attack by enemy: 426-27, 462
defense by Allies: 430, 433
loss of by Allies: 422-23, 436-37
mines, employment: 546-47
reconnaissance, enemy: 407
security measures, Allied: 423
seizure by enemy: 437
withdrawal to and from, Allied: 289, 437-38
Ferme Combier: 193n, 200-201, 213
Ferme Ste. Marie: 193n, 201-02
Fernana: 604-05
Ferryville: 642-43, 652-53, 656-57, 659
Fès: 141, 160-61, 179-80
Field Artillery Battalions. See also Armored Field Artillery Battalions.
5th: 307, 311, 315, 560, 571n
6th: 565
7th: 217, 381, 461n, 571n
9th: 121, 139-40, 143
10th: 121, 139, 143, 145
26th: 571n, 614-20
32d: 207, 215, 222, 560, 571n
33d: 199n, 200-202, 220-21, 381, 391n, 443, 447, 461n, 463, 558, 571n, 657
34th: 466, 571n, 614-20
36th: 443, 614-20
39th: 121, 139, 144, 145, 171-72
41st: 121, 138
60th: 157-59, 157n, 162-63, 165-67, 466, 549n, 614-20
65th: 570n
67th: 614-20
74th: 466n
84th: 108, 466, 548n, 571n, 614-20
107th: 614-20
125th: 578-79
151st: 453
175th: 284-86, 284n, 287, 298n, 302, 303n, 307, 331, 396, 397, 433n, 443, 578-79, 658
185th: 578-79, 614-20
Field Artillery Brigade, 13th: 466n, 546, 547-48
Field Artillery Group, 5th: 565n
Field Artillery Regiments
17th: 411, 412, 477-78, 571n
36th: 338-39, 571n, 578-79, 586
178th: 571n, 578-79
Fifth Army: 35, 350-51, 499, 643, 667-68
Fighter aircraft, enemy employment: 366-67
Fighting French. See also French forces.
Algiers, seizure by: 249-50
British-American support of: 22-23
contacts with: 23
Darlan, distrust of: 355-56
De Gaulle-Giraud relations: 358-61
government for, Allied position on: 361-62
landings, role in: 24-25
merger with other French forces: 500
occupation, areas of: 359-60
plans withheld from: 24
Syria, seizure by: 7
Vichy France, attitude toward: 22, 669-71
Financial activities: 57-58, 361-62
Firth of Clyde, concentration at: 70-71
Fischer, Gen. Wolfgang (Ger.): 296, 306, 311-16, 327-28, 342, 407n, 658-59

Flavell, Brig. J. W. C. (Br.): 352
Fleurus: 208-09, 221
Florence Nightingale, USS: 153, 169
Fondouk el Aouareb (el Okbi): 282-83, 418, 423, 425, 438, 541
air action, enemy: 374, 441-42, 582, 588
air action, Allied: 371, 585-87
armor actions: 591
armor support, Allied: 582, 585-90
armor support, enemy: 374
artillery fire, Allied, on own units: 581-82
artillery support, Allied: 581-82, 585-87
artillery support, enemy: 374, 587-89
American tardiness, complaint of: 590-91, 599-600
attacks by Allies: 550, 556, 564-65, 569, 572, 577, 578-79, 582-87
attacks by enemy: 426-27
battle for: 578-92
breakout, Allied: 589-90
casualties, Allied: 582n, 591n, 592n
casualties, enemy: 592n
casualties, French: 374
counterbattery action: 589-90
defense plans, Allied: 386-87, 398-99
dispositions, Allied: 578-79
dispositions, enemy: 580-81
engineer support: 589
First Army directive on: 578-79, 582-83
German estimate of Allied effort: 583n, 592n
matériel losses, enemy: 591
mines, employment: 587-91
night operations: 586-90
occupation by Allies: 237
order of battle, Allied: 582-83
patrol operations: 586, 588
prisoner interrogation: 580-81
prisoners, Allied: 592n
prisoners, enemy: 588-89, 591
recapture, Allied plans for: 374-76, 378-79, 385, 386-87
seizure by enemy: 374, 426-27
smoke, employment: 586-87
tank losses, Allied: 582, 588, 590, 591n
tank losses, enemy: 374, 591
topography: 578-80
withdrawal, Allied: 585-86
withdrawal, enemy: 591
Foreign exchange. See Financial activities.
Formidable, HMS: 185, 248
Forts:
de l'Eau: 247-48
de la Pointe: 193n, 205-06
de Sidi Ferruch: 234-35, 236, 239-40
d'Estrées: 247-49
du Nord: 49, 193n, 205-06
du Santon: 48, 201-02, 223, 224-25
Duperré: 230, 235, 236-37
Independence: 286
Lamoune: 193n
l'Empereur: 238-39
Fougier, Gen. (It.): 325n
Foum Tatahouine: 525-24, 525, 526-27
Fountain, Col. Ray C.: 402-03, 436 37
France, metropolitan: 187
Franco, Franciso: 5, 7. See also Spain.
Frantz, Generalmajor Gothard (Ger.): 527 28
Frascati: 368-69
Fredendall, Maj. Gen. Lloyd R.: 47, 71, 195-96, 213, 220, 224-27, 350-52, 378, 380-81, 385, 386-88, 392-93, 396-97, 399, 403-05, 432-33, 443-51, 456-57, 470-73, 486-87
Allied ground troops, assigned to command: 385
background: 35n
Center Task Force, selected as commander: 35
Faïd pass directive: 399-400
Ousseltia valley directive: 378
Sidi Bou Zid directive: 418
Station de Sened directive: 396-97
succeeded by Patton: 486-87; 545
Free French. See Fighting French.
Freeman-Attwood, Maj. Gen. H. A. (Br.): 350, 504-05, 610
French colonies
administrative unification: 669-71
censorship in: 356
collaborationists, suppression of: 500
decisions, Allied, on ultimate status: 31
Imperial Council of Governors: 500
landing sites identification of to officials: 56
North African Agreement, provisions of: 269-71
officials, President's message to: 91, 95
political officers in 1942: 17
political problems: 22, 23-24, 77-83, 253-54, 355-62
political reforms instituted: 356- 57
political structure: 16, 500
population, composition: 16-17
Vichy France policies, emulation of: 5, 356-57
French Committee of National Liberation: 22, 669-71. See also Fighting French.
French forces. See also Fighting French.
aircraft for use of: 499-500
Algiers, strength and reaction: 52, 229-30, 235-36, 236n, 238, 239, 243-44, 246
Allied appointments, reaction toward: 267-68
American tardiness, complaints of: 392- 93, 417
Bizerte, surrender at: 321
break with Axis: 287-88
capability, estimate of: 82n
Casablanca, strength and reaction: 118-19, 139, 141, 142, 145-46
Cherchel meeting with Allied leaders: 81-83

Clark-Darlan negotiations: 262-69
collaborationists, vindictiveness toward: 669-70
CCS approval of arrangements with: 268
command relations within: 93-94, 272-73
commander for: 77-84
commanders, assignment of: 267-68, 270, 272
commanders, attitude toward Allies: 249-50
co-operation, enemy efforts to gain: 254-60
co-operation with Allies, attempts to establish: 356-58
Darlan, preference for: 356
Darlan's neutrality directive to: 263-64
De Gaulle acquires complete authority over: 671
disarming ordered by Hitler: 321
distrust of by Axis: 286-87, 294-95
distrust of De Gaulle: 356
employment, plans for: 56
evasive actions toward Axis: 283, 286-87
factionalism in: 354-55, 358-69, 500, 669-71
Fedala strength and reaction: 124-26, 131-33
Fighting French, merger with: 359-61, 500, 669-71
Giraud accepted as commander: 264-66, 272, 361-62
Giraud-De Gaulle differences over control: 670-71
Giraud's proposals for employment: 272-73
Kairouan pass, relief at: 379-80
landings, role in: 89-96
matériel expected from Allies: 361-62
Mehdia, reaction at: 157-58
in Morocco, collaboration with after surrender: 176-78, 180
Morocco garrison, estimate of: 40
North African Agreement, role under: 269-70
Oran, garrison strength: 193, 202-03
Oran-Algiers landings, role in: 186-87, 188-89
organization for collaboration: 272-73
Pétain, devotion to: 23-24
pilot training by Allies: 499-500
Port-Lyautey, strength and reaction: 149-50, 153-57
Rabat, reaction at: 139
rearmament by Allies: 270, 361-62, 499-500
reorganization: 499-500
shipping, allotment to: 362
state of for Allied use: 273
strength in 1942: 21
supply, oversea: 499
TORCH, role in supporting: 81-82, 82-83, 82n, 85, 253-54
training: 499-500
treatment of: 30-31, 45-46, 56, 251-52
Tunisia, disposition in: 258-59, 283-84
Tunisia, juncture with Allies: 279
Tunisia, reaction to Axis occupation: 258-60
ultimatum to by Axis: 287
unification achieved: 669-71
Vichy France, attitude on collaboration with Allies: 262-63, 287, 500
Vichyites, recruitment of: 670-71
West Africa, collaboration by: 270-72
French Navy: 5, 193, 257-58
French Northwest Africa, invasion of. See TORCH.
French units
1st Battalion, Foreign Legion: 220n
3d Battalion, Foreign Legion: 180n
8th Tabor Battalion: 154
Algerian Light Armored Brigade: 273, 442-43
XIX Corps: 298, 350-51, 378-81, 382-84, 386-87, 402-03, 417, 418, 432-33, 469, 486-87, 489-92, 508-09, 579n, 582-83, 591, 600, 610-11, 611n, 612, 614-20, 639-41, 644-45, 662-63, 664-65, 670-71
Corps Franc d'Afrique: 504-05, 615n, 653-54
Detachment Guinet: 442-43
Algiers Division: 52, 239, 273, 379-80, 402-03
Casablanca Division: 52, 171
Constantine Division: 273, 351-52, 374-75, 388-90, 433, 433n, 456-57, 579n
Fès Division: 141
Meknès Division: 141
Division Mathenet: 490, 579n
Oran Division: 48, 193, 664-65
Tunis Division: 257, 258-59, 286-87
Division Welvert: 490
Foreign Legion: 208
L Force: 526-27
7th Legion of Guards: 52
1st Regiment, African Chasseurs: 139n, 160n
1st Algerian Infantry Regiment: 418
1st Moroccan Infantry Regiment: 154, 156-57
2d Algerian Infantry Regiment: 208, 216
2d Regiment, Foreign Legion: 101, 112
2d Moroccan Tirailleurs Regiment: 101, 112
2d Zouaves Regiment: 188, 217, 221-22
3d Algerian Infantry Regiment: 337, 507
4th African Chasseurs Regiment: 650
4th Mixed Zouaves-Tirailleurs Regiment: 303n, 307n, 331
4th Zouaves Regiment: 650, 667
6th Senegalese Infantry Regiment: 127
7th Algerian Infantry Regiment: 327
7th Moroccan Tirailleurs Regiment: 160n, 164, 180-81, 337
15th Senegalese Infantry Regiment: 290-91, 667
16th Tunisian Infantry Regiment: 208, 220n
43d Colonial Infantry Regiment: 307n
62d Artillery Regiment: 303n, 307n, 331
64th African Artillery Regiment: 180n
66th African Artillery Regiment: 222

67th African Artillery Regiment: 443
68th African Artillery Regiment: 208, 221
Moroccan Colonial Artillery Regiment: 112
Southeast Algerian Command: 544-45, 565
11th Squadron, African Chasseurs: 112
Tabor units: 490
6th Motorcycle Troop, Moroccan Guard: 161n
Tunisian Troop Command: 350-51
French Vichy Government. See Vichy France.
French West Africa: 270-72
Freyberg, Lt. Gen. Sir Bernard C. (Br.): 526-27, 533-34, 535, 665
Front de Mer: 100, 104, 107
Fullriede, Col. (Ger.): 580-81, 588-89
Furious, HMS: 49, 192-93, 204-05, 216
Furna: 327-28, 330, 333

Gabès: 260, 278-79, 288-89, 338, 351-52, 364-65, 370, 409-10, 440, 469, 476-77, 485, 494-95, 512, 516, 521-28, 534-37, 544, 557, 564, 607
approaches to: 544
drive on, Allied: 494, 565-77
occupation by enemy: 289
port operation: 607
secured by Allies: 537-38
Gabès position: 322
Gaffey, Brig. Gen. Hugh J.: 102, 107, 487, 552, 569-70, 575-76, 608n
Gafour: 379
Gafsa: 327, 347-48, 351-52, 364-65, 370-71, 387-88, 392, 396-98, 399, 401-06, 441, 477, 478-79, 494-95, 512, 524-25, 528, 529, 544, 550, 556-57, 564-65, 607-08
air action, Allied: 547-48, 573
air support, enemy: 406
artillery support, Allied: 547-48
attack by Allies: 494
attack by enemy: 401, 405-07, 409-10, 415-16, 546, 570
control, enemy plans for: 386
counterattack, enemy: 559-60
defense by Allies: 386-88, 475-76, 569-70, 572-73
demolitions, employment: 417-18
dispositions, Allied: 546-47
dispositions, enemy: 544
Kesselring's assurance on security: 545-46
mines, employment: 547-48
night operations: 417-18
occupation, changes in: 289
order of battle, II Corps: 546
reconnaissance, Allied: 546
reconnaissance, enemy: 406, 409-10, 425
reinforcements, Allied: 569
Rommel's role in attack: 406-07, 409-10, 424-25, 426-27
Second Manassas, comparison with: 545-46
security measures, Allied: 417-18
seizure by Allies: 543-48, 558-59
seizure by enemy: 388, 424-25, 427
strength of Allied forces: 546
strength of enemy forces, estimate: 543
as supply point: 543
vulnerability: 544
withdrawal, Allied: 417-18, 438
Gaines, Lt. Col. Thomas L.: 578n
Gale, Maj. Gen. Humfrey (Br.): 33, 496-97
Gales (training center): 62
Gambetta: 193n
Gandin, Gen. Antonio (It.): 288-89, 325n, 456
Garaet el Mabtouba: 642-43, 660-61
Garaet Ichkeul: 280, 595, 600-601, 613-15, 622-23, 640-43, 647-48, 652-56
Gardiner, Col. Henry E.: 434-35, 474, 656
Gardner, Major Arthur W.: 131, 138
Gariboldi, Gen. Italo (It.): 7
Gasoline supplies. See POL.
Gaulle, de, Gen. Charles (Fr.): 358-61, 500, 669-70
Algiers, arrival in: 669
appointments, Allied, attitude toward: 267-68
background: 22
conversations with Allied leaders: 23
distrust of by French forces: 356
Fighting French, recognized as chief by: 22
French forces, acquires complete authority over: 671
French forces, conflict with Giraud over control of: 670-71
Giraud, conference with: 358-61
popularity, gain in: 669-70
role in TORCH, not considered for: 56
Gaullists. See Fighting French.
Gause, Gen. Alfred (Ger.): 261, 321, 327n
Gay, Col. Hobart S.: 39, 132, 171
General Headquarters, Mideast (Br.): 362
Geography. See Topography.
George Clymer, USS: 150, 153, 164-65
German Admiral, Rome: 514
German air units. See Luftwaffe units.
German armistice commissioners, capture of: 127, 141, 225-27
German forces. See also Rommel.
armor, shift of to Africa: 6-7
Comando Supremo, control by: 7, 8-9, 9n
commander's discretionary authority, lack of: 76
counteroffensive against, British: 8
Greece, conquest of: 7
Italians, distrust of: 540-41
landing points, confusion as to: 186-87
Libya, conquest of: 7
reinforcements for during campaign: 8-9

German General, Rome: 9, 77, 261, 369-70
German-Italian Panzer Army: 76n, 260, 261, 322, 349-50, 363-65, 440, 476, 521-22
German Naval Command, Italy: 186-87
German Naval High Command: 186-87
German units
Panzerarmee Afrika: 8, 72, 75-77, 76n, 368-69
Angriffsgruppe Nord: 430-31, 441
First Army: 257n
Fifth Panzer Army: 326, 333-35, 349-50, 363-65, 369-70, 370-72, 373, 382, 386, 388, 405-07, 426, 436-37, 438, 441-42, 453, 470, 476-77, 501-05, 508, 510-11, 512, 519, 521, 540, 544, 552-53, 577, 602-03, 611, 640-41, 647-51, 659, 661
Army Group Felber: 257n
1st Tunis Battalion: 617, 617n
1st Tunis Field Battalion: 259n, 371-72
2d Tunis Battalion: 390-91, 617
3d Tunis Battalion: 623
3d Tunis Field Battalion: 300-301
4th Tunis Battalion: 617n
10th Motorcycle Battalion: 306n, 376, 407-09, 562, 565-66, 609-10
10th Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion: 648
11th Parachute Engineer Battalion: 284n, 299-300, 504-05, 617
26th Africa Battalion: 556, 588-89
27th Africa Battalion: 580-81, 588-89
29th Africa Battalion: 398
30th Africa Battalion: 617
33d Antitank Battalion: 648
33d Reconnaissance Battalion: 425n, 449, 461-62
34th Africa Battalion: 580-81
49th Panzer Pionier Battalion: 565-66
90th Tank Destroyer Battalion: 306n
190th Panzer Battalion: 259n, 301-02, 311-12, 370-71, 374-77, 398, 417
190th Reconnaissance Battalion: 333-35, 580-81
200th Engineer Battalion: 425n
334th Reconnaissance Battalion: 398, 588-89, 617n
501st Heavy Panzer Battalion: 330-31, 376, 506, 556, 612, 612n
504th Heavy Panzer Battalion: 621-22
508th Reconnaissance Battalion: 390-91, 398, 409, 412-13, 453, 459, 462-63, 556
609th Flak Battalion: 453
Africa Replacement Battalion: 371-72
Algerian Battalion: 617n
German-Arabian Training Battalion: 617n
Moroccan Battalion: 617
Training Battalion: 617n
Tunis Battalion: 610
Tunis Replacement Battalion: 315-16
Bizerte Coast Defense Command: 604, 647-48
Tunis Coast Defense Command: 604
1st Panzer Jaeger Company: 425n
Africa Corps: 7, 8n, 76, 406, 409, 424, 425n, 516, 517-19, 529, 530-31, 539-40, 541, 553, 559-60, 565, 577, 589-90, 602-03, 610-11, 611n, 644-45, 648, 650-51, 663, 664-65
XLV Corps: 257n
XC Corps: 295, 312, 327-28
19th Flak Division: 648, 650-51
10th Panzer Division: 260, 294-95, 306, 311-12, 317-18, 333-36, 342, 370-71, 373-76, 401-17, 425-27, 436-37, 438-42, 453-56, 459-62, 464-65, 470, 476-77, 501-04, 516-19, 523, 528-31, 537, 538-39, 552-53, 559-62, 565-66, 570, 573, 576-77, 590, 603, 611-13, 611n, 648, 650-51, 661-62
15th Panzer Division: 371, 401, 406, 425n, 516-19, 525, 528-29, 530-37, 538-41, 604, 611, 611n, 613, 648-51, 661-62
20th Flak Division: 376, 648
21st Panzer Division: 364-65, 371-72, 371n, 388-90, 398, 401, 405-06, 425-27, 431, 435-36, 436n, 438-42, 452-55, 459-60, 470-71, 476-77, 478, 479, 502, 516-19, 528-31, 533-34, 536-39, 546, 570, 577, 590, 603, 611, 611n, 648, 650-51, 664-65
90th Light Africa Division: 371, 516-18, 527-28, 531-32, 537-42, 550, 664-65
164th Light Africa Division: 371, 516, 527-29, 533-41, 604, 664-65
334th Infantry Division: 260, 370-71, 603, 611-13, 621-22, 640-41, 648, 650-51, 658, 660-62
999th Africa Division: 580-81
Division von Broich: 333-35, 370-71
Hermann Goering Division: 260, 365, 476-77, 504, 507-08, 603, 611-13, 617n, 650-51, 655, 662
Division Manteuffel: 501-05, 603, 616-17, 621-22, 640-41, 648, 661
Kampfgruppe Audorff: 504, 609, 612-13
Kampfgruppe Buhse: 426-27, 436
Kampfgruppe Burk: 376
Kampfgruppe DAK: 409-10, 425-27, 437-38, 441, 449, 451, 453-55, 460, 461-62, 470, 476-77, 478-79
Group Djedeïda: 313-15
Kampfgruppe Eder: 504, 506-07
Kampfgruppe Frantz: 662-63
Kampfgruppe Fullriede: 509n, 580-81
Kampfgruppe Funk: 609-10
Kampfgruppe Gerhardt: 407-09, 420, 425-26, 430-31, 436
Kampfgruppe Gruen: 390-91
Kampfgruppe Holzinger: 507-08
Kampfgruppe Hudel: 312-14, 317-18
Kampfgruppe Irkens: 612-13, 612n, 648
Kampfgruppe Koch: 312-13, 507-08

Kampfgruppe Lang: 407-09, 501-02, 504, 506-08, 555n, 556n, 565, 572, 577, 590
Kampfgruppe von Liebenstein: 536-37
Kampfgruppe Lueder: 312-15, 317-19, 376-79, 506
Kampfgruppe Menton: 449-50
Kampfgruppe Pfeiffer: 390-91, 431, 434, 570, 664-65
Kampfgruppe Reimann: 407-09, 565-66
Kampfgruppe Rommel: 441-42, 469, 470-71, 477
Kampfgruppe Schirmer: 609-10
Kampfgruppe Schmid: 504, 507
Kampfgruppe Schmidt: 611n, 650-51
Kampfgruppe Schuette: 409, 412-13
Kampfgruppe Stenkhoff: 409, 413-20, 434-35
Kampfgruppe Stolz: 376-77
Kampfgruppe Stotten: 449-50
Kampfgruppe Strempel: 398
Kampfgruppe Weber: 376-77, 381
Kampfgruppe Witzig: 306-07, 306n, 308-09, 312
Kampfgruppe Wolf: 580-81
Kampfgruppe Ziegler: 416-17, 439-40, 441-42, 477, 479n
Kasta O. B.: 556
Korpsgruppe Fischer: 370-71, 373-74, 376
Korpsgruppe Weber: 501-04, 507-08, 603
Panzergruppe Afrika: 8n
1st Artillery Regiment, Afrika: 425n
2d Artillery Regiment: 259n
5th Panzer Regiment: 390-91, 409, 412-13, 420, 452-53, 518, 612n
5th Parachute Regiment: 259n, 287, 288n, 291, 301-02, 370-71, 373-74, 376
7th Panzer Regiment: 306n, 328, 330-31, 342-43, 407-09, 411, 461-62, 464-65, 506, 562, 565-66, 609-10, 612n
8th Panzer Regiment: 449-50, 453-55, 463-64, 612n
47th Grenadier Regiment: 333-35, 370-71, 374, 426, 470, 504, 506, 509n, 540, 612-13
69th Panzer Grenadier Regiment: 339-42, 376, 407-09, 507, 509-10, 562, 565-66
71st Rocket Projector Regiment: 425n
86th Panzer Grenadier Regiment: 317-18, 330, 339, 407-09, 411, 556, 562, 565-66
90th Artillery Regiment: 556, 562
104th Panzer Grenadier Regiment: 259n, 390-91, 409, 452-53, 518
115th Panzer Grenadier Regiment: 648, 649-50
135th Flak Regiment: 425n
160th Panzer Grenadier Regiment: 616-17, 617n
190th Artillery Regiment: 259n, 425n
200th Panzer Grenadier Regiment: 540
754th Grenadier Regiment: 504, 609, 612
754th Infantry Regiment: 339-42, 621-22
755th Grenadier Regiment: 504, 506-07
755th Infantry Regiment: 621-22
756th Mountain Regiment: 376-79, 504, 507-08, 612, 621-22
961st Infantry Regiment: 580-81
962d Infantry Regiment: 616-17, 617n
Panzer Grenadier Regiment Afrika: 425n, 449, 453-55, 463, 525, 528, 531-32, 570, 650-51
Regiment Barenthin: 308-09, 504-05, 616-17, 617n, 621-22, 656-57
Regiment Ewert: 610
Hermann Goering Grenadier Regiment: 609-11
Hermann Goering Parachute Regiment: 609-10
Germany
occupation of France, policy regarding: 73-74
internal politics, effect on Allied plans: 11-12
Italy, offer of military aid to: 6
Soviet Union, attack on: 6, 7-8
Vichy France, military policy toward: 73-74, 254
Gershenow, Major Louis: 106
Gibb, Major Frederick W.: 221, 222
Gibraltar: 294
AFHQ established: 84
convoys, arrival at: 185-86
Eisenhower-Giraud conference: 189-91
force concentrated at: 84
safeguarding, plans for: 26, 65
seizure by Spain, Axis plans for: 5, 7
Gibraltar Air Command (RAF): 492
Gibson, Col. Samuel A.: 567n
Giffen, Rear Adm. Robert C.: 68
Giraud, Aspirant Bernard: 84
Giraud, Gen. Henri: 239-40, 252, 262-63, 264-65, 326-27, 330, 350, 358-61, 361-62, 388, 392, 615n, 669-70
Algiers, associations in: 188-89
American aid, conditions regarding: 81-82, 82-83, 82n, 83n
background: 79
command position, demand for: 82-83, 83n
De Gaulle, conference with: 358-61
Eisenhower, conference with: 189-91
French commander, selection as: 55-56, 79, 176-77, 178-79, 264-66, 272, 361-62
French forces, conflict with De Gaulle over control: 670-71
French forces, plans for employing: 272-73
High Commissioner, appointment as: 357-58
Oran, associations in: 188-89
political role: 358, 499-500
popularity, diminution of: 669-70
succeeds Darlan: 355-58
supreme command position, demand for: 190, 337-38
TORCH, role in support of: 80-85

Glassford, Rear Adm. William A., Jr., mission to Dakar: 271-72
Gleason, Lt. John C.: 435
Glengyle, HMS: 199
GOALPOST: 42, 151. See also Mehdia; Port-Lyautey.
Goering, Field Marshal Hermann (Ger.): 324
Goering conference of commanders: 325-26
Golfe d'Arzew: 213-14
Golfe de Bougie: 277
Golfe de Tunis: 366-67, 598, 601
Gore, Lt. Col. A. C. (Br.): 451-55
Goubellat: 283-84, 290-91, 326-27, 330, 373, 609-10
Goubellat plain: 595-98
Goumiers: 154, 669
Graham, Capt. D. C. (RN): 205
Grand Dorsal. See Western Dorsal.
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem: 321
Graziani, Marshal Rodolfo, replaced in Libya: 7
Great Britain. See United Kingdom.
Greece: 6, 7
Greek Sacred Squadron: 526-27
Green Hill: 306-07, 308-09, 373. See also Djefna position.
Artillery support, Allied: 616-18, 618n
attack by Allies: 614-21, 640
night operations: 308-09
topography: 614-16
Greer, Col. Frank U.: 207, 220, 341-42, 381-82, 547
Grenadier Hill: 302, 309, 609-10
Grich el Oued: 331-32, 336-37, 338-41, 507, 612
Griggs, Major Farrar O.: 246-47
Grombalia: 663-64
Ground observation
Allied: 246, 628-29, 638, 640, 654-55
enemy: 636, 640
Group Schlagtot: 175-76
Gruenther, Brig. Gen. Alfred M.: 25, 33
Guelma: 380-81, 402
Guensch, Col. (Ger.): 312
Guercif: 179-80
Gulf of Hammamet: 595, 598
Gumtree road: 553-54, 556-65, 569, 574, 576-77
Gwin, Capt. Robert D.: 634
GYMNAST Task Force: 10n

Hadjeb el Aïoun: 352, 386-87, 394-95, 399, 402-03, 407-09, 415-16, 419, 425, 473, 476, 485-86, 490, 578-79
Haecke, Col. Jean Van (Fr.): 189
Haïdra: 446, 457-58, 360-61, 472-73, 599, 604-05
Hains, Col. Peter C.: 111, 411, 419, 430-31, 432, 473
Hall, Major Garnett: 582, 586, 632-33
Hall, Rear Adm. John Leslie, Jr.: 46
Hallouf River: 517-18
Halte d'el Heri: 336-37, 339-41
Hamblen, Col. Archelaus L.: 81
Hambleton, USS: 175-76
Hamilton, Capt. Edgar Guérard (Fr.): 206n
Hamilton, Major Pierpont M.: 150, 154-55, 164, 169-70
Hamlett, Lt. Col. Barksdale: 472-73
Hammam Lif: 598, 650-51, 662
Hammamet: 598, 600, 644, 662-63
Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation: 67
Handy, Gen. Thomas T.: 496n
Harlinghausen, Col. (Ger.): 257, 258-59, 284-86, 286n
Harmon, Maj. Gen. Ernest N.: 42, 42n, 102, 107-08, 111, 113-14, 471-74, 575-76, 641-43, 654-55, 662
Hartland, HMS: 202-04
Harris, USS: 103-04, 106-07, 111
Harry C. Lee, USS: 68
Harwood, Adm. Sir Henry (RN): 354
Hatab River: 444-47, 452, 457-58, 462
Hawkesworth, Maj. Gen. J. L. I. (Br.): 612
Hawkins, Col. John R.: 212n
Haydon, Maj. Gen. J. C.: 63
Heïdous: 342, 612, 620-21
Heigl, Col. (Ger.): 512-13
Hendaye conference, Franco-Hitler: 5
Hendrickson, Col. Norman E.: 578n
Henney, Lt. Col. Frederic A.: 150, 164-65
Henry T. Allen, USS: 150, 153, 157
Hewes, USS. See Joseph Hewes, USS.
Hewitt, Adm. Henry Kent: 36, 44, 60, 111, 155, 170, 171-74, 354-55. See also Amphibious Force, Atlantic Fleet.
Hewitt, Col. Robert A,: 374n, 608n
Heydte, von der, Major (Ger.): 604
Hightower, Lt. Col. Louis V.: 411-13, 430-31
Highway systems: 20, 155-56, 199-200, 230-31, 281-83, 293, 298, 347-48, 419, 428, 444-46, 615-16, 642
Hildebrandt, Col. Hans Georg (Ger.): 390, 398, 407, 413, 426, 434, 452-53, 459-60, 535, 546
Hill, Lt. Col. S. J. L.: 287-88, 288n
Hillenmeyer, Capt. Herbert F.: 636-37
Hills
58: 158-59, 163
74: 158-59
104: 314-15
107: 620
112: 539-40
145: 328
148: 328
186 (Djebel Maïana): 303, 306, 311, 315, 316, 318-19
201: 533-34, 558-59
258: 312-13
270: 517-18
275: 539-40

290: 567-71, 567n
294: 619-20
299: 640
306: 581-82, 588, 589-90
322: 553-56, 575
336: 558-62, 569
344: 626
346: 625
350: 622-24
361: 567n
369: 560, 566-74, 568n
382: 640
388: 624-25
394: 624-26
398: 619-20
400: 622-24
406: 640
407: 622-25
420: 624-25
428: 628-29
432: 617-18
435: 628-33
438: 617-19
455: 628-38
461: 628-37
466: 185-86, 342
469: 624-26
473: 626
476: 628-29
482: 565-66, 569, 571
485: 624-25
490: 628-35
513: 618-19
523: 628-37
529: 628-36
531: 626-27, 628-38
533: 626
545: 628-36
549: 623-24
558: 628-29, 634
574: 569
575: 622-27
598: 619-20
609: 504-06, 595-97, 622
air support, enemy: 637
ammunition shortage, enemy: 634
armor support, Allied: 634-38, 641-42
artillery preparation, infantry fails to benefit from: 671-72
artillery support, Allied: 622, 626, 629-30, 632-33, 635, 638
artillery support, enemy: 635, 636-37
attack by Allies: 622-24, 626-27, 628-35
battle for: 628-43
casualties, Allied: 633-34
communications, Allied: 636-37
counterattacks, enemy: 631-38
defensive measures, enemy: 630-32
ground observation, Allied: 628-29, 638
ground observation, enemy: 636
mines, employment: 632, 637
night operations: 631-32, 635-38
patrol operations: 637-38
prisoners, Allied: 633-34, 636-37
prisoners, enemy: 634
reconnaissance, Allied: 634
reinforcements, Allied: 637-38
reinforcements, enemy: 634, 637-38
smoke, employment: 635
supply shortage, enemy: 634
tank losses, Allied: 635, 637
topography: 628-31
644: 390-91
667: 608
668: 620-21
704: 452, 455-56
712: 447, 450-51, 454-55
732: 464
772: 559-60, 562-63, 565-66, 567n, 568, 571, 572-73, 574
812 (not Djebel Zebbeus): 463-64
974: 449-51, 454-55
1191: 445, 502-04, 507-08, 509-10
Hinley, Capt. Lacey W.: 332n
Hir Moussa: 376-77, 379-80
Hitler, Adolf: 186-87, 321-26, 363-65, 368-69. See also German forces; Germany.
Allied-French collaboration, reaction to: 253-62
Americans, estimate of: 673
anti-British alliance, attempts to foster: 5
Axis capabilities in February, review of: 511-12, 513-14
Chott position directive: 529-30
Ciano, conference with: 255-57
commanders, authorizes direct communication by: 529n
conference with commanders: 513-14, 529
Cross-Channel attack, concern for: 73
El 'Alamein, demand for resistance at: 76
England, plans for invading: 4-5
Franco, conference with: 5
French forces, order to disarm: 321
Italian shipping, proposal for use: 602
Kesselring, directive to: 369-70
Malta, blunder in postponing assault on: 9
Middle and Near East, plans for invading: 8
Rommel, conference with and directive to: 322-23, 324-25
supply requirements, estimate of: 511-12, 513-14
Tunisia, proposal for holding: 601-02, 665-67
Vichy government, distrust of: 254

Holmes, Col. Julius: 58-59, 81
Holmes, Brig. L. C. (Br.): 486-87
Homs: 364
Hopkins, Harry: 12
Horrocks, Lt. Gen Sir Brian (Br.): 514, 526-27, 535
Horseshoe Hill: 109
Hospital, evacuation, at Constantine: 376
Howard, Col. Edwin B.: 46, 225-27
Howze, Lt. Col. Hamilton H.: 468, 656, 660-61
Hudel, Capt. (Ger.): 312
Hugh L. Scott, USS: 175-76
Hughes, Brig. Gen. Everett S.: 495-96
Hughes-Hallett, Commodore John (RN): 63
Hugulet, Major Warren: 339
Hull, Col. R. A. (Br.): 284n, 287n, 295-96, 299-300, 303-04
Hunt's Gap: 505-07
Husseïn Dey: 235, 247

Iceland, American garrison replaces British: 11
Identification of units, failure at Mehdia: 162
Île Zembra, enemy prisoners captured: 663-64
Imperial Council of Governors: 500
Imperiali, Gen. Giovanni (It.): 333-35, 370-71, 388
Imports, plan for control of: 58
Infantry, American, critique on methods: 660-61, 673-74
Infantry Divisions
1st: 192, 213, 220-21, 223-24, 227, 380-81, 402-03, 436-37, 456-57, 464, 468, 474, 478, 490-92, 505-06, 544-65, 564n, 567n, 569, 570-71, 571n, 574-77, 605-07, 613-14, 620-27, 629-38, 642-43, 652-53, 656-58, 667-68
3d: 42, 61, 116, 179-81, 546, 643, 657-58, 667-68
9th: 42, 61, 66n, 180-81, 427-28, 465-66, 466n, 467n, 473, 478, 490-92, 546, 550, 562-71, 571n, 574-77, 603-07, 614-18, 639-41, 642-43, 652-53, 658-59, 667-68
34th: 53, 241, 381-82, 399, 402-03, 427-28, 432-33, 442-43, 459, 490, 505-06, 509, 546, 550, 564, 572, 577-92, 599, 605-07, 625-28, 642-43, 652-53, 658-59, 661, 667-68
Infantry Regiments. See also Armored Infantry Regiments; Regimental Combat Teams.
7th: 121, 136, 138-40, 142-45
15th: 121-36, 138-40, 144-46
16th: 381, 394-95, 398n, 456-57, 460-64, 461n, 474, 517-48, 558-62, 569, 622-23, 624-27, 629-38, 650, 657-58
18th: 215-22, 224-25, 337-43, 436-37, 547-48, 557-63, 569, 620-27, 657-58
26th: 338, 391n, 392n, 393-94, 433, 433n, 443, 447-48, 449-50, 452, 453-55, 490-92, 547-48, 557-59, 564-65, 569, 571, 622-27, 633-39, 657-58
30th: 121-36, 138, 145, 171, 179-80
39th: 180-81, 187-88, 327-28, 396n, 448-50, 455-56, 461n, 490-92, 567-68, 570n, 571, 614-20, 639-41, 656n, 660-61
17th: 97, 99, 103-08, 179-80, 466, 548n, 567-68, 574, 604, 614-20, 640-41, 653-55
60th: 466, 549n, 550, 554-55, 614-20, 639-41, 653
133d: 427-28, 432-33, 436-37, 442-43, 490, 578-92, 632-38, 658-59
135th: 244n, 402-03, 436-37, 442-43, 509, 578-92, 629-38, 641-42
168th: 396, 396n, 397, 399, 411n, 412-13, 433n, 435-36, 443, 477-78, 486-87, 490, 578-92, 620-21, 624, 624n, 626-27, 658-59
Innsbruck conference, Keitel-Badoglio: 6
Intelligence collection: 485-86, 489
Intelligence estimates
Allied: 401, 553, 556n, 645
enemy: 74, 565-66
Intelligence operations: 23, 24-25
Inverary. See Combined Operations Training Center.
Inverchaolain peninsula: 63
Iraq, British occupation of: 7
Irkens, Col. (Ger.): 612-13
Irwin, Brig. Gen. S. Le Roy: 465-67, 567n
Italian air forces, reinforcement of in Tunisia: 257
Italian Naval High Command: 186, 514
Italian Navy, in policing of Mediterranean: 7
Italian units
First Army: 368-70, 441, 476, 510-11, 519, 521, 525, 527-31, 540-41, 552-53, 562-64, 575-77, 589-90, 591-92, 603-04, 609, 611, 611n, 613, 648, 650-51, 664-65
Battalion Grado: 617n
5th Bersaglieri Battalion: 451, 454-55, 463-64
7th Bersaglieri Battalion: 525
135th Armored Battalion: 588-89
136th Tank Destroyer Battalion: 259n
557th Assault Gun Battalion: 259n
50th Special Brigade: 333-35, 370-71, 388-90, 398, 555, 603
XX Corps: 524-25, 527, 536-37, 538-39, 664-65
XXI Corps: 527-28, 535, 536-37, 538-39, 664-65
XXX Corps: 8n, 295, 370-71, 580-81, 603-04
Ariete Division: 338
1st (Superga) Division: 295, 295n, 333-35, 337, 370-71, 373-74, 376-77, 381, 406, 603, 611n, 650-51

16th (Pistoia) Motorized Division: 371, 516, 527-30, 538-40, 604
80th (La Spezia) Division: 371, 516-18, 527-30, 538-40, 604
101st (Trieste) Division: 371, 516, 527-30, 538-40, 604, 665
131st (Centauro) Armored Division: 371-72, 388-90, 398, 401, 405-06, 425, 425n, 441, 451, 453-54, 455, 462, 463-64, 470, 529-30, 538-39, 543-44, 546, 557-58, 565-66, 577, 590, 602, 604
136th (Young Fascist) Division: 371, 516, 527-28, 531-32, 538, 542, 604
Group Benigni: 370-71, 381
Group Imperiali: 592n
Saharan Group: 371, 527-28, 538-39
10th Bersaglieri Regiment: 504-05, 617
91st Infantry Regiment: 580-81
Italy. See also Comando Supremo; Mussolini, Benito.
anti-British alliance, plans for: 5
distrust of by Germans: 540-41
Greece, attack on: 6
invasion, expectation of: 74, 601-02
Mediterranean, paramount interest in: 6
military aid, German offer of: 6
Tunisia, effect on of loss: 676
Vichy France, attitude toward: 73-74, 255-56

Jamaica, HMS: 192-93, 217, 222-23
James, Brig. M. A. (Br.): 505-06
Jamison, Comdr. J. W. (USN): 136
Japan, consideration of main effort against: 12
Jean Bart (Fr.): 40, 96, 118, 133, 143-44
Jean-Bart (town): 246-47
Jeeps. See Motor convoy operation; Motor vehicles.
Jefferson, USS. See Thomas Jefferson, USS.
Jemmapes: 295-96
Jetée du Nord: 230, 243, 244
Jewish population, propaganda among: 178-79
Jodl, Gen. Gustav (Ger.): 511, 513-14, 529
John Penn, USS: 153
Johnson, Major Charles E.: 131
Johnston, Capt. James D.: 108, 568
Joint Army-Navy Plan for Participation in TORCH. See ROOFTREE.
Joint Chiefs of Staff: 352-54
disagreements over landings: 25-31
political missions, assignment by: 55
role in CCS: 1n
successor to Army-Navy Joint Board: 37
Joint operations, direction of: 37-39
Joint Rearmament Committee: 270, 362
Joseph Hewes, USS: 175-76
Joseph T. Dickman, USS: 123, 124n, 126
Jousse, Lt. Col. Louis G. M. (Fr.): 81, 189
Juin, Gen. Alphonse: 132, 178, 189, 258-59, 263-64, 272-73, 298, 326-27, 329-30, 350-52, 377-78, 383-84, 388, 475-76, 650, 669
Algiers, role in surrender of: 251-52
command assignments: 17, 265-66, 272
Resident General of Tunisia, appointment: 669
support of TORCH, views on: 78, 84-85, 249-50
surrender, authorized to negotiate: 251

Kairouan: 370, 407, 438, 441, 453, 541, 578, 580-81, 583, 588-91, 592n, 604
Kairouan pass: 294-95, 327, 347-48, 351-52, 373-74, 379, 381
air attack by Allies: 379
artillery support, Allied: 379
attack by enemy: 376-77, 379
communications, enemy: 379-80
counterattack, Allied: 379-80
French forces, relief of: 379-80
occupation by enemy: 289
reinforcements, enemy: 379
supply, enemy: 379-80
Kalaa Djerda: 494
Kamelberg: 611, 611n
Karachoum Gap: 374, 376-78
Karanja, HMS: 234, 235, 278
Kasba. See Port-Lyautey.
Kasba Tadla: 179-80
Kasserine: 282-83, 348, 349, 403-05, 439-40, 453, 546
air reconnaissance, enemy: 427
defense by Allies: 430, 433-35
engineer support: 418
prisoners, French: 427
reinforcements, Allied: 460-61
security measures, Allied: 423
seizure by enemy: 427
Kasserine pass: 521-22, 546-47
air attack by Allies: 473
air support, enemy: 449, 479
aircraft losses, Allied: 477
armor support, Allied: 449-51, 453-54
artillery support, Allied: 447, 462
artillery support, enemy: 449, 453-54
battle for: 438-80
boundary designations, Allied: 471-73
casualties, Allied: 477-78, 477n
casualties, enemy: 477
command reorganization, Allied: 470-71
communications, Allied: 451, 455, 457-58, 461-62
counterattack, Allied: 457-58, 470-75
defense at and beyond, Allied: 433-35, 446-58
defense features: 446-47
dispositions, Allied: 449-50, 456-57, 472-73, 478-79
drainage system: 445-46

highway system: 444-46
lessons gained by Americans: 479-81
loss of by Allies: 453-56
matériel losses, Allied: 477
matériel losses, enemy: 477
mines, employment: 447-48, 450-51, 455, 474
night operations: 452
patrol operations, Allied: 447
POL losses, Allied: 477
POL supply, enemy: 469
principle of mass, enemy violation of: 479-80
prisoners, Allied: 450-51, 477
reconnaissance, Allied: 451, 457-58, 473
reinforcements, Allied: 443, 449-51, 474
reinforcements, enemy: 451, 454-55, 459-60
road construction: 472-73
rocket support, enemy: 453-54
Rommel's decision to shift to: 453
summary of operations: 478-81
tank losses, Allied: 461-62, 477
tank losses, enemy: 450-51, 477
thrust through, enemy: 438-58, 478-79
topography: 444-47
withdrawal, Allied: 450-51
withdrawal through, enemy: 469-75
Kasserine Valley (misnomer): 446
Kaufman, Gauleiter (Ger.): 325-26, 325n
Kbir River: 370-71
Kean, Col. William B.: 608n
Kearny, USS: 163, 165-67, 170n
Kebili: 335, 533-34
Kebir River: 595-98, 611n, 612
Kebir River reservoir. See Barrage de l'Oued Kebir.
Kebir River valley: 376-77
Keddab wadi: 548, 560-62, 574
Kef el Ahmar: 423
Kef el Goraa. See Hill 575.
Kef el Guebli. See Hill 529.
Kef el Korath: 459-60
Kef en Nsour (Hill 523): 615-20, 639-40
Keightley, Maj. Gen. Sir Charles F.: 326-27, 468, 587-88
Keitel, Marshal Wilhelm (Ger.): 6, 322-23, 513-14. See also German forces; Oberkommando der Wehrmacht.
Kelly, Lt. Col. Joseph E.: 287n
Kelly, Rear Adm. Monroe: 70, 155, 170
Kennedy, Capt. Kenneth: 195n
Kent-Lemon, Brig. A. L. (Br.): 295-96, 312
Keren, HMS: 234-35, 238
Kern, Col. William B.: 195n, 196-97, 219-20, 223-24, 391-92, 393-94, 413-14, 554-55, 556n
Kern's Crossroads: 414n, 421, 422, 425-26, 430
Khemisset: 132, 141
Kesra, 327, 378, 490
Kesselring Marshal Albert (Ger.): 77, 186-87, 254, 262, 288-89, 294-95, 300-301, 302, 321-24, 325n, 338, 364-65, 368-69, 373-74, 406, 425, 439-42, 455-56, 460, 469-70, 476, 479, 501-04, 513-14, 536, 552-53, 562, 570, 602-03, 645-47
airfield retention, emphasis on: 511
Axis capabilities, estimates of: 509-12, 645-47
Bédja attack directive: 501-04
Chott position directive: 529-30
Comando Supremo, relation to: 369
commander's discretionary authority, conviction of need for: 76
Gafsa, assurance of: 545-46
Hitler conferences and directive: 369-70, 513-14
landings, conclusions on: 674
Mareth, assurance of security of: 545-46
Mareth position, decision to shift to: 469-70
Mediterranean-Aegean coast, charged with defense of: 73, 260-61
Mussolini, subordination to: 8-9
Nehring, directive to: 311, 322
at Rastenburg conference: 529
supply capability, estimate of: 512-13, 512n
Tébessa, Rommel's proposal to for seizure: 438-42, 455-56
Tébessa attack directive: 439-40
Tunisia inspection trip: 512
Keyes, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey: 42, 42n, 137, 178-79, 576
King, David W.: 92
King, Adm. Ernest J.: 12
Knight, Ridgeway B.: 81, 189
Knight, USS: 106, 114
Knoche, Capt. Wilhelm (Ger.): 287
Knox, Frank: 268n, 270
Koch, Lt. Col. (Ger.): 286n, 312
Koeltz, Gen. Louis-Marie (Fr.): 78, 189, 239, 250-51, 298, 350-51, 379, 381, 427-28, 442-43, 486-87, 490, 583, 585-86
Koléa: 234-36, 239-40
Krause, Gen. Fritz (Ger.): 648, 662
Ksar el Hallouf: 516-17, 523-25, 527-28, 534-35
Ksar Mezouar: 506-07
Ksar Tyr: 290-91, 333-35, 595-97, 612
Ksour: 298, 441, 452-53, 606-07
Kuter, Brig. Gen. Laurence S.: 383, 492-93, 573

La Bouzaréa: 235, 239
La Calle: 278-79, 288-89
La Fauconnerie: 370, 409-10, 527
La Ferla, Generale di Brigata Francesco (It.): 527
La Macta: 208-09, 216-17, 221
La Mohammedia: 312
La Railleuse: 100
La Sebala, Allied air attack on: 218-19, 649
La Senia: 193, 210-13, 217-25, 239, 241

La Surprise (Fr.): 199
Labor, native, employment of: 497-98
Labor units. See Service units.
Laborde, de, Adm. (Fr.): 263-64
Lac de Bizerte: 280, 595, 642-43, 659-60
Lahoulle, Gen. (Fr.): 93, 132, 171
Lake Maracaibo oil tankers. See Maracaibos.
Lakehurst (seatrain): 102, 107, 108
Lalande, HMS: 234
Lambert, Col. Kent C.: 40, 571, 608n, 641-42, 656
Lamberton: HMS: 278
Lambiridi, Allied seizure of: 237-41
Landing craft: 12n, 62-63, 125-26, 135, 158, 168-69, 187-88, 196-97
amphibian tractors: 135n
LCPR: 105
LCV: 106
Landing forces, agreement on: 29, 43
Landing strips. See Airfields.
Landings in Northwest Africa
Aïn Taya, selection of: 52
air support of: 37, 48, 53-54
airborne support of: 37, 53, 54
Algiers, selection of: 52
American effort, identification as: 29, 50-51
armor, plan for employment: 48-49
Arzew, plans for seizing: 48-49
Commando units in: 52
Center TF, composition: 48, 49
convoy routes to sites: 70, 71-72
date, factors influencing: 25-26, 28
disagreements over: 25-31
Fedala, confusion at: 125-26, 129-30, 130-31
hazards affecting: 43-45
Kesselring's conclusions on: 674
Les Andalouses, plans for seizing: 48-49
Mehdia, landing miscarried: 153, 157, 158-59
Mersa bou Zedjar, plan for seizing: 48-49
methods to be employed: 89-90
Oran, plan for seizing: 48-49
plans for, considerations affecting: 32
reinforcement of: 53n
RESERVIST Force, role in: 49-50
resistance, forces available for: 90-91, 92
resistance forces, friendly, role in: 24-25
shipping in support of: 53, 65
signals for returning hostile fire: 45
sites, identification of to French officials: 56
sites selected for assault: 25-29, 31, 475-76
subtask forces, composition: 46
tides, effect on: 43
time set for: 89
weather, alternate plans for meeting: 44-45
Z Beach, plan for seizing: 48-49
Lang, Col. Rudolph (Ger.): 339-43, 426, 470, 506-07, 555
Largs, HMS: 71, 195-96, 202, 203, 224-25
Larkin, Brig. Gen. Thomas B.: 46, 66, 495-96
Larson, Major Werner L.: 376
Lascroux, Gen. Georges (Fr.): 92, 93, 132, 141, 160-61, 171
Lauer, Col. Walter E.: 121
Laval, Pierre: 253, 254, 255-56, 263-64
Laverdure: 405, 486, 492-93
Lawson, Air Commodore G. M. (RAF): 71, 280
Layard, Lt. Comdr. A. F. C. (RN): 241
Le Bardo: 312, 650
Le Kef: 273, 326-27, 330, 347-48, 440-42, 453, 467, 469-70, 473, 490, 502, 604-08
Le Krib: 608
Le Kroub, tank maintenance center: 496-97
Le Sers: 494-95, 606-07
Le Tarf: 606-07
Leadership, Allied, critique of: 674-76
Leahy, Adm. William D.: 14, 250
Leben wadi: 553-55
Le Beau, Col. Leon (Fr.): 169
Le Clerc, Gen. Jean (Fr.): 526-27, 669-71
Lederer, Col. Hans: 258-59, 286n
Leedstown, USS: 71n, 235, 244-46, 248-49
Lees, Capt. E. V. (RN): 199
Leese, Lt. Gen. Sir Oliver (Br.): 514, 526-27
Leinster, HMS: 202
Lemnitzer, Brig. Gen. Lyman L.: 47, 81
Leonard Wood, USS: 121, 123, 124n, 125, 128, 176n
Les Andalouses: 196, 213-14, 217
ammunition shortage, Allied: 217
armored cars destroyed: 200-201
beach abandoned: 225
coastal defenses, reaction by: 201-02
highway system: 200-201
landings at: 199-202, 199n
naval action: 199-200
seizure, plans for: 48-49
topography: 200
Les Eucalyptus radio station: 52n
Lessouda Force: 410-13, 419, 424
Leyer, Gen. Roger (Fr.): 132, 141
Liaison organizations: 485-86
Libby, Lt. Col. Donald M.: 150
Libya: 7, 9n
Liebenstein, von, Generalleutnant Freiherr Kurt: 409-10, 424, 426-27, 437, 527-28, 535-37
Liggett, Capt. John C.: 150
"Lincoln" (clandestine radio station): 91
Lines of communication: 277-78, 282-83, 288-89, 292-93, 309, 325-26, 327, 352, 365-66, 401-02, 485, 496-97, 552-53, 575, 591-92, 616-17
Llangibby Castle, HMS: 199. 201-02
Loerzer, Gen. Bruno (Ger.): 255
Logistical support: 38-39, 43-44, 63-67, 75, 292-93, 310, 324-26, 365-68, 474, 495-99, 512-14

Long Range Desert Group: 525-26
Longstop Gap: 329, 329n
Longstop Hill: 336-37, 338-44, 600, 603, 612
Lorenzelli, Gen. Dante (It.): 295
Lorraine (Fr.): 153
Lourmel: 195-96, 198-99, 213
Loycke, Capt. (Ger.): 259
Lubricants. See POL.
Ludlow, USS: 121, 124, 130, 134
Luftflotte 2: 260-61
Luftwaffe
airfields in Tunisia, use of: 254-55
Darlan, liaison with: 254-55
Estéva, liaison with: 254-55
Italy, shift of units to: 6-7
Mediterranean convoy, attacks on: 187-88
potential in 1942: 21
RAF, failure to eliminate: 4-5
strength, attempts to maintain: 187, 370
Luftwaffe units
Second Air Force: 9, 369, 440
1st Jaeger Brigade: 371, 437n, 525, 528, 531-32
Parachute Brigade: 604
19th Flak Division: 527-28, 538-39, 604
Fliegerkorps Tunis: 370, 406
II Fliegerkorps: 255
X Fliegerkorps: 6, 9
53d Fighter Wing: 370
77th Fighter Wing: 370
Lutes, Brig. Gen. Le Roy: 66
Lyon, USS: 97, 103, 108, 111

Macharda, HMS: 235, 248
Machine gun employment, enemy: 373
Mack, W. H. B.: 54
MacMillan, Brig. Gordon (Br.): 583-85
Macmillan, Harold: 499-500
Macon, Col. Robert C.: 121
Magnan, Col. Pierre (Fr.): 177
Maharès: 347, 552-54
Maison Blanche airfield: 235, 239-40, 247-48, 278, 279, 335
Maison Carrée: 52, 235, 247
Maïzila pass: 388, 390-91, 392, 395-96, 398-99, 407-09, 412-13
Maknassy: 282-83, 355, 386-87, 406, 536, 538, 541, 544, 546, 550, 557, 564, 577
advance beyond: 543, 544-45, 550-54
air action, Allied: 398, 556
air action, enemy: 397-98, 556, 562
antitank action: 397-98
armor support, Allied: 555, 556
armor support, enemy: 556n
artillery support, Allied: 555
artillery support, enemy: 556n
attack by Allies: 386-87, 292-93, 550-55, 569-70, 572, 575
attack by enemy: 501-02
casualties, Allied: 398, 400n, 575n
communications, Allied: 393
defense by Allies: 564-65, 569-70, 572, 575-76
defense by enemy: 553-57
intelligence estimate, Allied: 553, 556n
matériel losses, Allied and enemy: 398
mines, employment: 555
night operations: 338, 553-57
prisoners, enemy: 338, 398, 555n
raid on: 338
reconnaissance, Allied: 552, 553-54
reinforcements, Allied: 552
reinforcements, enemy: 555-56
seizure by Allies: 577
strength, enemy, estimate of: 543
tank losses, Allied and enemy: 398
topography: 388, 553-54
withdrawal by enemy: 553-54
Maknassy pass: 553-57, 558-59
Maktar: 282-83, 298, 327, 349, 379, 380-81, 387, 394-95, 398-99, 403-05, 417, 440, 456, 470, 490, 507
Malah River: 280, 615-16, 620-21
Malcolm, HMS: 241-42, 243, 244n
Malta, 8, 9, 73
Malta Air Command (RAF): 492
Manchester, HMS: 234
Mancinelli: 665
Manhart, Lt. Col. Ashton H.: 131
Manly, Lt. Col. L. A.: 240
Mannerini, Generale di Brigata Alberto: 527-28, 535, 538-39
Map reading, need for training in: 671-72
Maps, inadequacy of: 419, 566-67, 567n
Maracaibos, plan for transporting armor in: 48-49
Maraist, Col. Robert V.: 388, 393, 396-97
Marches, arduous
1st Infantry Division: 547-48
9th Infantry Division: 465-66, 466n
9th Division Artillery: 427-28
47th Infantry: 180
60th RCT: 549
II Corps, to north Tunisia: 604-07
Mareth position: 322-23, 364-65, 370, 405, 423-24, 427, 522
air reconnaissance, enemy: 530-31
air support, Allied: 509, 527, 532-33, 536, 582
antiaircraft support, enemy: 527-28
antitank measures: 522-23
approaches to: 525-26
artillery strength, enemy: 524-25
artillery support, Allied: 531-33
attack on, Allied: 526-27, 558-59, 564
battle for: 485, 494-95, 508-09, 514, 521-37
casualties, enemy: 530-31, 542n
Catroux's proposal for turning: 524

coastal plan battle: 530-33
counterattack, enemy: 532-33
defense by enemy: 440, 441, 511-12, 512n, 514, 516, 527-30
defensibility: 522-25
directive on by Comando Supremo: 512
dispositions, Allied: 508-09, 526-27
dispositions, enemy: 527-29
drainage system: 522-23
engineer support: 531
mines, employment: 523-24, 525, 527-28, 531-32
morale, Allied: 526
matériel losses, Allied: 505, 508
matériel losses, Axis: 542n
night operations: 531-33
objectives, contending: 521-22
prisoners, Allied: 505, 508, 533
prisoners, enemy: 537
reconnaissance, Allied: 525-26
relations among Axis forces: 528-30
river crossing operations: 531-32
security of, Kesselring's assurance: 545-46
shift to, enemy decision to: 469-70, 475-76, 477
strength, Allies: 475-77
strength, enemy: 476-77, 530-31, 543
SUPERCHARGE II, shift to: 533-37
tank losses, Allied: 505, 508, 532-33
tank losses, enemy: 508
topography: 522-24, 525
withdrawal by enemy: 565
Marguellil River: 578-80, 583-86, 588-90
Marigold, HMS: 234
Mark Twain, USS: 196
Mark VI (Tiger) tank: 305
Markoe, Lt. Col. Francis A,: 46
Marnix van Suit Aldegonde (Dutch): 234, 235, 278
Maron, HMS: 235, 248
Marrakech: 46, 110, 111-14, 141, 171, 179
Marsa el Brega: 261-62, 322-24, 363
Marshall, Lt. Col. Carley L.: 635
Marshall, Gen. George C.: 12, 13, 15, 268, 350-51, 356-57, 358, 569, 572-73. See also Joint Chiefs of Staff; Combined Chiefs of Staff.
Marshall, Lt. Col. George F.: 202, 203-04
Martin, Maj. Gen. Henri (Fr.): 92, 111, 132
Mary Slessor, HMS: 196
Mascara: 210
Mass, principle of, violated by enemy: 479-80
Massachusetts, USS: 96, 133, 134n
Massicault: 311, 327-28, 330, 331, 333, 336, 595-97, 600, 612, 644-50
Mast, Maj. Gen. Charles E. (Fr.): 80, 81-82, 82n, 84, 85, 188-89, 236n, 239-40, 249-50, 262, 265, 358, 361, 362
Matériel, enemy shortages in: 373-74
Matériel losses
Allied: 175-76, 284, 319-20, 320n, 321-22, 332-33, 394n, 398, 412-13, 414-15, 415n, 422n, 436n, 453-54, 467n, 477, 490-92, 505, 508, 519, 558, 560n, 609-10, 611
enemy: 76, 381-82, 398, 421-22, 464, 477, 542n, 550, 571, 591, 656-57
French: 142-43, 218-19, 224-25, 382
Mateur: 286-87, 290-91, 296, 299-307, 308-09, 312, 373, 595-97
armor action: 656-57
armor strength and support, Allied: 638-39, 642n, 657
artillery strength and support, Allied: 614, 642-43, 656, 657
artillery support, enemy: 642-43, 655
bridge construction: 651, 654-55
casualties, Allied: 651n, 656-57
demolitions by enemy: 642-43
drive on, by Allies: 613-43
engineer support, Allied: 642-43
highway system: 642
matériel losses, enemy: 656-57
mines, employment: 626
offensive beyond, Allied: 654-59
prisoners, enemy: 651n, 656-57
reconnaissance, Allied: 651, 655
river crossings: 642-43, 651, 654-55
seizure by Allies: 641-43
smoke, employment: 656
strategic value: 283
tank losses, Allied: 656-57
threat to: 640
topography: 622-23, 642
traffic congestion: 652-53
Mathenet, Gen. Maurice (Fr.): 132, 154, 160-61, 169-70, 337, 664-65
Matmata: 516-17, 522-24, 526, 527-30, 534-35
Matthews, H. Freeman, role in Civil Affairs Section: 57-59
Mazagan: 114, 179
McBride, Capt. Verle: 167
McCarley, Major Percy De W., Jr.: 157-58
McCleod, Lt. Col. William R.: 150
McCloy, John J.: 496n
McConnaughy, Col. Donald S.: 71n
McCreery, Maj. Gen. Sir Richard L. (Br.): 486-87, 545, 550
McGinness, Lt. Col. John R.: 331-32
"McGowan, Lt. Col." See Murphy, Robert.
McKowsky, Capt. William S.: 150
McNabb, Brig. C. V. (Br.): 432-33, 451-52, 458, 464-65
McNarney, Gen. Joseph T.: 14
McQuillin, Brig. Gen. Raymond E.: 387-94, 411, 412, 413, 430-32, 430n, 435, 443, 472-73, 548, 548n, 550-51, 564-65, 572, 608

McWatters, Capt. Herman: 430-31
McWhorter, Rear Adm. Ernest D.: 68
Medal of Honor awards
Minue, Pvt. Nicholas: 638-39, 638n
Nelson, Sgt. William L.: 619-20, 620n
Wilbur, Brig. Gen. William H.: 128n
Médenine: 514-19, 522-24, 527-28, 534-35
Medical Battalions. See also Armored Medical Battalions.
9th: 549n
16th: 461n
49th: 461n
51st: 417-18
Medical supply, Constantine depot: 376
Mediterranean Air Command: 492
Mediterranean Base Section: 495-96
Mediterranean theater
air transport operations, enemy: 365-68
as Axis theater: 4-10
cargo transport for, enemy: 367-68
coast defenses, Kesselring charged with: 225, 260-61
command structure, enemy: 260-61
convoys, naval support of: 190-91
invasion capabilities, Allied, enemy estimates: 74
Italian hypothetical control of operations: 6, 73-74, 323, 363-64, 368-69, 512
lines of communication, enemy: 365-66
logistical problems, enemy: 365-68
Luftwaffe, alert of: 187
naval forces, enemy, disposition: 186
naval policing of by enemy: 7
operations prior to TORCH: 4-10
plans, enemy, revision of: 363-65
shipping strength and losses, enemy: 367-68
situation in 1940-42: 1-14
situation in, effect of El 'Alamein on: 76
situation, enemy, on eve of TORCH: 72-77
supply routes, enemy: 6, 7, 365-66
transports, Allied, arrival in: 84
Mediterranean Theater of Operations, USA
activation: 1n
boundaries established: 354
command structure established and reorganized: 354-59
Medjerda, enemy withdrawal from: 456
Medjerda River valley, operations in: 266-67, 280, 281, 294, 296, 298, 300, 303-04, 307-08, 311-18, 326-39, 370-71, 442, 490, 504, 507, 508, 595-97, 603, 611-14, 621-22, 647-48, 650-51, 661
Medjez el Bab: 299-300, 307, 315, 317, 326-28, 329-32, 336, 338-42, 371n, 401-02, 490, 541, 595-97, 603
action at: 331
air action, enemy: 287-89, 302
air attack, Allied, on own units: 302
artillery support, Allied: 489
attack by Allies: 489
attack by enemy: 330-31, 373-74, 501-09, 510-11, 512
bridges at: 303
casualties, Allied: 302
counterattack, enemy: 302
first battle in Tunisia: 287-89
night operations: 302
occupation by Allies: 303
occupation by enemy: 288
reinforcements, Allied and enemy: 287-88
repulse, Allied: 302
security measures, Allied: 303
tank losses, Allied and enemy: 331
withdrawal by enemy: 302
Mehdia: 179-80. See also Port-Lyautey.
air action, Allied: 150, 152-53, 157-58, 157n, 162-63
air action, French: 154, 158-60
armor action, first in Morocco: 161-62
armor support, Allied: 152-53, 160-61, 162
armor support, French: 156-57, 160-61
artillery support, Allied: 159, 162-63
basic plan abandoned: 159
beach organization: 150-53
coastal defenses, and attack on: 154, 156
communications, Allied: 159-61
counterattack, French: 156-57, 161-63
debarkation at: 153, 155, 157-59
French reaction to landing: 157-58
highway system: 155-56
identification, failures in: 162
landing craft losses: 158
landing site, selection of: 46
landings, conduct of: 150-53, 155-56, 157-60
naval support: 150, 155, 158-63
port capacity: 17-18
Port-Lyautey, advance to from Mehdia: 147-70
prisoners, Allied: 157
reinforcements, Allied: 162
reinforcements, French: 156-58, 159-60, 162-63
river crossings: 152, 163, 165-67
roadblocks at: 157
sabotage, failure of: 153
searchlight employment: 155
situation on D-day: 159-60
staff structure at: 150
surprise, loss of: 153-54
tank losses, French: 161
unloading cargo: 160-61
Mehdia-Port-Lyautey, substituted for Rabat as objective: 42
Meheri Zebbeus: 398-99, 411, 552-54, 572
Meïch: 565-66
Meknés: 160-61, 179-80

Mellah River: 130, 131, 136
Menzel Djemil: 659-60
Menzel el Heurr: 664
Merchandise quay: 105
Mers el Kébir: 193n, 225
Mersa Bou Zedjar: 213-14
beach abandoned: 225
landings at: 195-99, 195n
seizure, Allied plans for: 48-49
topography: 196
Mervine, USS: 104, 106
Messe, Field Marshal Giovanni (It.): 441, 519, 527-31, 535, 540-42, 544-45, 562
Chott position directive: 529-30
review of enemy capabilities in February: 510-11
succeeds Rommel: 368-69, 370
Metameur: 516-18
Metlaoui: 417-18, 425, 544-45, 546
Metline: 659-60
Meyrick, Lt. Comdr. P. C. (RN): 202
Mezzouna: 370-71, 525, 527, 544-45, 550-56, 576-77
Mhignat Touama: 162-63, 168
Michelier, Adm. François (Fr.): 92-95, 132, 171-73, 176-78, 185
Middle East, enemy plans for invading: 8
Middle East Air Command (RAF): 492
Middle East Command (Br.): 352
Milan, SS: 134
Miliane River: 280, 595-98
Military government, civil affairs transferred to: 17
Military Intelligence Division, WD, estimates by: 401
Military Police Battalion, 204th: 122
Miller, Maj. Gen. C. H. (Br.): 496-97
Miller, Lt. Col. Robert P.: 586-87, 629-31
Mines, land, employment of: 75, 331, 343, 402, 431, 436-37, 447-48, 450-51, 452-53, 455, 474, 487-89, 523-25, 527-28, 531-32, 538, 546-48, 555, 558-59, 560-62, 571, 576, 587-90, 610, 612, 614, 626, 632, 637, 639-40, 653-54
Mines, marine: 325
Minue, Pvt. Nicholas: 638, 638n
Mirage, appearance of: 419-20
Misoa (Maracaibo): 209-10
Misurata: 363-64
Misserrhin: 198-99, 218-20
Mockler-Ferryman, Brig. Eric E. (Br.): 489
Mogador: 41, 179
Molle, Lt. Col. Eugene (Fr.): 93
Molotov-Roosevelt conversations: 12
Monarch of Bermuda, HMS: 199, 202
Monnet, Jean: 500
Monroe, Col. Thomas H.: 121
Monsabert, de, Brig. Gen. A. J. (Fr.): 189, 239-40, 615n
Monstrelet, Col. Leon (Fr.): 240
Montesquieu: 298
Montgomery, Gen. Sir Bernard L.: 73, 485, 514, 521-22, 526, 533-35, 539-40, 552, 570, 599, 609, 611, 644
Moore, Col. Anderson T. W.: 418, 433, 443, 446-47, 455
Moore, Major Robert R.: 238
Moore, Lt. Col. Roy E.: 121, 127, 128, 138
Morale
Allied: 70, 526
enemy: 382, 512, 541-42, 665-67
French: 382-83
Moreau, Adm. Jacques: 267-68, 272
Morgan, Lt. Gen. Frederick E. (Br.): 65
Morliére Col. Louis (Fr.): 403-05
Morocco
air reconnaissance, Allied: 179-80
airfields, rehabilitation of: 180
amphibious operations in: 89-181
armor action, first: 161-62
attack, Allied, enemy expectation of: 74
attitude of French forces: 176-78
casualties, Allied: 172-73
civil affairs problems: 176-78
civil officials, retention: 177-78
collaborationist activities: 177-78
collaboration with French after surrender: 180
French forces, estimate of: 40
French plans disrupted: 132-33
as French and Spanish spheres: 179
government officials, communication to from President: 57, 91, 95
hostilities, end of: 171-81
naval losses: 175-76
political atmosphere: 176-79
political structure: 16
port facilities, operation and rehabilitation: 40-41, 179-80, 499n
propaganda activities after surrender: 178-79
railroads, rehabilitation of: 180
reconnaissance, Allied: 179-80
siege, state of, proclaimed: 96
submarine activities: 174-76
surrender negotiations: 171-74
training by Western TF after surrender: 171-81
treatment of French forces: 173-74, 176-77
Morsott: 577, 606-07
Mortar employment, enemy: 373
Moslem population, propaganda among: 178-79
Mostaganem: 216, 499n
Motor convoy operation: 498-99
Motor transport. See also Motor convoy operation; Motor vehicles.
Axis strength and use in Tunisia: 371, 602
deficiencies, Allied: 292-93
expansion, Allied: 498-99
movement of II Corps to north sector: 604-07
reserve at Constantine: 496-97

Motor vehicles
Allied losses. See Matériel losses.
lack of in BRUSHWOOD Force: 139-40
landed at Oran: 213
Mountain warfare, need for training in: 671-72
Mountainous areas, Northwest Africa: 17-18
Mousetrap. See Tine River valley, operations in.
Msoun: 179-80
Munchar: 508-09
Murphy, Robert: 23, 92, 188, 262, 265, 269, 356-57, 361-62, 499-500
appointed Chief Civil Administrator: 58
role in finding French leader: 80-83, 84-85
role in political preparations: 54-57
role in surrender of Algiers: 249-52
Murphy, USS: 121, 124, 130
Mussolini, Benito: 186, 260-61, 262, 289, 323-25, 512. See also Comando Supremo; Italy; Italian forces.
Axis capabilities, agreement with Hitler on: 513-14
Balearic Islands, proposal for seizing: 601-02
El 'Alamein, demand for resistance at: 76
invasion of Italy, concern over: 601-02
Kesselring, subordination of: 9
Kesselring's assurance on security of Gafsa and Mareth: 545-46
Malta, consent to postponement of assault on: 9
Soviet Union, proposal for compromise with: 601-02, 677
Spain, proposal for attacking through: 601-02
Spanish Morocco, proposal for attacking through: 601-02
Tunisia, determination to defend: 601-03, 665-67

Naples (Italy), principal airfields: 366-67, 366n
Nation, Lt. B. H. C. (RN): 240n
Natives, enemy efforts to recruit: 321
Naval actions: 133-34, 143-44, 187-88, 196, 199-200, 203-04, 213
Naval Command Africa: 440
Naval Commander in Chief, Mediterranean: 493-94
Naval forces, Allied. See also Naval task forces; Center, Eastern and Western Naval Task Forces.
command structure and reorganization: 36-37, 354-55
control of by CinC: 36, 37
detection by enemy: 185-86
role in landings: 29, 43-45
shortages in: 27-28
Naval forces, enemy: 186, 514
Naval forces, French: 40, 92-95, 118, 133-34
Naval Forces, Northwest African Waters: 354-55
Naval losses
Allied: 175-76, 203-04, 244n, 278
French: 213
Naval support
Allied: 49, 97, 104-05, 106-08, 116, 127-28, 130, 131-32, 133-34, 143, 150, 158-59, 160, 161, 162-63, 165-69, 185-88, 190-93, 205, 220-21, 222-23, 231-34, 248
French: 142, 143
Naval task forces: 36-38
Near East, enemy plans for invading: 8
Neely, Lt. Col. Robert B.: 578n
Nefifikh River: 130, 131, 139
Nehring, Gen. Walther (Ger.): 75, 261-62, 287, 294-95, 298, 300-301, 302, 303-04, 305, 306, 307, 309, 310, 315-16, 327-28, 658-59
assumes command in Tunisia: 284-87
background: 262n
mission assigned: 288-91, 311, 322
succeeded by Arnim: 326
ultimatum to French: 287
Nelson, Major Richard E.: 121
Nelson, Sgt. William L.: 619-20, 620n
Neuffer, Gen. Georg (Ger.): 311n, 333-35, 648, 662
Nevins, Col. Arthur S.: 46
New Jersey (seatrain): 44, 67
New York, USS: 97, 104, 109
Nicholson, Brig. Cameron: 423, 458, 460-61, 464-65, 466-67, 468
Nickforce: 423-24, 458, 460, 464-65, 468
Night operations: 163-65, 219-20, 221, 241-49, 302, 308-09, 338, 342-43, 376-77, 381, 382, 417-18, 424, 427, 431-34, 462, 462-63, 526, 531-33, 539-40, 553-63, 568-69, 576, 586-90, 609-10, 631-32, 635, 636, 637-38, 658
Night training, need for: 671-72
Nightingale, USS. See Florence Nightingale, USS.
Ninth Air Force: 492, 527
No. 1 Line of Communications Area: 496
Noguès, Gen. Auguste Paul: 115, 132, 141, 146, 171, 172-73, 176-78, 277, 357-58
assigned authority by Vichy: 264, 265-67
command assignment, Allied: 265-66
message to from President: 95
Resident General for Morocco: 17
support of TORCH, role in: 78, 92-95
Norstad, Col. Lauris: 37, 46, 71
North Africa, operations in. See British forces; Rommel, Marshal Erwin.
North African Agreement: 269-71, 358-59
North African Theater of Operations, USA, activation: 1n, 495-96
Northern Task Force: 65, 266-67
Northwest African Air Forces: 354-55, 366-67, 492, 493, 527

Northwest African campaign
Allied leadership, critique of: 674-76
as contribution to Allied war effort: 669-77
Cross-Channel success, enhancement of in light of experience gained: 676-77
impression on enemy: 673-74
strategic consequences: 675-77
supply shipments, Allied: 679
supply shipments, enemy: 682
tactical methods, critique of: 671-73
troop shipments, Allied: 679
troop shipments, enemy: 682, 683
troop strength, Allied, periodic: 679-81
victory parade for: 669
Northwest African Strategic Air Force: 492-93, 494-95, 527, 533, 573
Northwest African Tactical Air Force: 414-15, 485-86, 492-95, 527, 573
Northwest African Tactical Bomber Force: 527, 649
Norway, British readiness for operations in: 12

Oakes, Major Walter M.: 187-88
OB South. See Commander in Chief, South; Kesselring, Marshal Albert.
Oberkommando der Marine. See German Naval High Command.
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht: 260-61, 363-65, 369-70
Oberkommando West: 185-86
Observation, ground, at Sidi Bou Zid: 411
Obstacles, marine: 152, 154, 155, 159-60, 164-65, 203, 241-42
Ocean Rider, HMS: 248
Ocean Viceroy, HMS: 234
Ocean Wanderer, HMS: 234
O'Daniel, Col. John W.: 51, 235-36, 238-39
Office of Coordinator of Information, agents of: 24
Office of Strategic Services: 58-59, 165, 212n.
Office of War Information: 58
Officers, combat, benefits of African experience to: 674-76
Oggaz airfield: 49, 210
Oil supplies. See POL.
OLIVENERNTE (code name): 373-74
Oliver, Brig;. Gen. Lunsford E.: 47, 195, 198-99, 205, 209-10, 220-23, 292, 305-06, 315-16, 317, 326-27, 328, 331-32, 374.
Oran: 351-52, 402, 427-28
aftermath of operations: 225-28
air action, Allied: 48, 192-93, 204-05, 211-12, 215-16
air strength, French: 193
air transports, mislandings: 212-13
airborne force, plans for employment: 48
aircraft losses, French: 204-05, 211-12, 218-19
airdrops from transports: 212-13
airfields, seizure of: 48, 218-19
antiaircraft action: 204-05
approach of assault force: 220-23
armor support, Allied: 48-49, 192, 209-10, 215, 216-18, 219, 227
artillery support, Allied: 220-21
artillery support, French: 217-18, 218n, 219
attacks by Allies: 192-93, 222-25
beach organization: 192
casualties, Allied: 204, 227
casualties, French: 227-28
Center TF, role in: 49, 192-94
civil affairs administration: 225-27
coastal defenses, action against: 192-94, 203-04, 223
collaborationist activities: 225-27
communications, Allied: 212, 216, 219, 222, 223
counterattack, French: 215-17
counterbattery action: 223
debarkation: 193-94, 217
defenses of: 48
envelopment of: 222-23
first day's operations: 192-214
French, friendly, aid of landing: 188-90
French forces, hostile, reaction of: 186-87
garrison strength: 193, 202-03
Giraud's associations in: 188-90
harbor, assault on: 202-04
landed force, strength: 213
landings, plans for: 27, 28, 29, 31
matériel losses, French: 218-19, 224-25
motor convoy operations: 498-99
motor vehicles landed: 213
naval actions: 203-04, 213
naval strength, French: 193-94
naval support of landing: 190-91, 192-93, 220-21, 222-23
night operations: 219-20, 221
obstacles in harbor: 203
political problems: 225-27
population: 47
port facilities, operation and rehabilitation: 19, 225, 495-99, 499n
postponement of landing, French request for: 188
prisoners, Allied: 212-13, 223-24
prisoners, French: 218-19, 224-25
propaganda activities: 204-05
reconnaissance, Allied: 211
reinforcements, Allied: 216, 222
reinforcements, French: 208-09, 216, 222
replacement depot, capacity: 499
RESERVIST Force, mission and operations: 49-50, 202-04
resistance expected: 215
salvage operations: 225

secured by Allies: 225
seizure by Allies: 46-50, 215-28
surrender negotiations: 224
tank destroyer support: 218
tank losses, French: 218
topography: 47, 203
unloading operations: 213-14
Orlando, Generale di Divisione Taddeo: 527
Orléansville, motor convoy operations at: 498-99
Orders, confusion in: 397-98, 441-42
Ordnance shops, at Tebessa: 376
Osprey, USS: 158, 169
Otranto, HMS: 234-36, 238
Oudna airfield: 305, 309
Oued Zarga: 288, 291, 329-30, 373-74, 504-05, 506
Oujda: 350-51
Ouled Fayet: 238
Ouled Rahmoun: 498-99
Ousseltia: 377-81
Ousseltia River valley, operations in: 348, 376-84, 386-87, 402-03, 427-28, 470

Pacific theater, competing claims upon Allied resources: 10-11
Palermo (Sicily): 366n
Palomares, HMS: 234-35
Panther, HMS: 187
Parachute Infantry Regiment, 509th: 279, 289
Parham, Brig. H. J. (Br.): 465-66
Paris, Col. (Fr.): 112
Parker, USS: 170n
Parsons, Major Norman, 411
Patrol operations: 139, 284, 403-05, 447, 586, 588, 637-38
Patrolling, need for training in: 671-72
Patton, Maj. Gen. George S.: 66, 70n, 108-10, 144-45, 172-74, 177, 178, 350-51, 548-56, 558, 564-65, 569-77, 578, 582, 591, 599
air support, complains of lack: 573
Alexander's abilities, estimate of: 545n
arrival at beachhead: 131-32, 136-37
assumes command of II Corps: 487-89, 490-92, 545
attack of primary objectives, insistence on: 44-45
background: 35n
Casablanca, requests directive to bombard: 44-45
confidence, admonition to instill: 70
directive to from CinC: 487-89
eagerness to engage enemy: 45, 543-44
French, action on plight of: 177-78
succeeded by Bradley: 608
unloading operations, speeds: 137
Western TF, selection as commander: 35
Pence, Col. Arthur W.: 495-96
Penn, USS. See John Penn, USS.
Perrégaux: 210
Pétain, Marshal Henri Philippe: 5, 170, 250-51, 257, 263-64, 265-67, 271, 287
Peters, Capt. Frederic T., (RN): 202, 224
Peter's Corner: 330, 600, 612
Petty, Lt. Col. John C.: 396n
Peyrouton, Marcel: 358
Petit, Col. Charles (Fr.): 154-55, 164
Petite Darse: 105
Petitjean: 132, 141, 179-80
Pfeiffer, Col. (Ger.): 390-91, 650-51, 664n
PHANTOM FORCE: 485-86, 572
Philadelphia, USS: 97n, 104, 107-08, 109, 114, 115
Philippeville: 19, 28, 53, 496, 497-98, 499n
Pichon: 282-83, 291, 294-95, 315, 316-20, 423-24, 426-28, 436, 441, 442, 453, 579, 580-81, 583-85, 587, 606-07
attack by Allies: 509
attack by enemy: 401-03, 407, 436
mines, employment: 436
occupation by Allies: 327
tank losses, Allied: 509n
Pickett, Major George E.: 567n
Piddock, Lt. Col. Charles A.: 150
Pilots, French, training by Allies: 499-500
Pizzolato, Generale di Brigata Gavino: 527-28
Plaine des Andalouses: 213
Plains area of Northwest Africa: 17
Plan Howze: 474
Plans, Allied. See also Decisions, strategic; TORCH.
air support: 46, 50, 53-54
airborne support: 53, 54
Algiers operations: 50-54
ARCADIA program and revision: 10, 11
armistice terms: 57
Casablanca seizure: 44-45
for Center TF: 46-50
Churchill's strategic analysis for 1942-43: 10
civil affairs administration: 57-59
Cross-Channel attack, 1942: 11-13
directive to CCS to plan for TORCH: 13
French forces, employment and treatment: 56
Germany, effect of political disturbances in: 11
guiding principle in 1942: 10
Japan, main effort against considered: 12
landings, considerations affecting plans for: 32
logistical support of TORCH: 38-39, 63-67
Mehdia seizure: 150-53
naval forces employment: 43-45, 49, 185-86
Northwest Africa, decision to seize: 10-14
Oran seizure: 46-50
political considerations affecting: 22-25
political planning: 54-59
political warfare: 54-57
preparations for TORCH, completing: 60-85
propaganda activities: 54-57
reinforcement of Eastern TF: 53n

Roosevelt's commitment to TORCH: 13-14
sabotage in support of TORCH: 92
Safi seizure: 102-03
shipping, protection of: 50
SLEDGEHAMMER plans: 11-14
SOS request for AFHQ supply plan: 66
Soviet Union, difficulties in assistance to: 11-12
strategic planning for TORCH: 15-31
tactical plans for TORCH: 32-59
tactical plans for Tunisia: 485-86
Tripoli seizure: 10
weather, plans for meeting: 44-45
for Western Task Force: 39-46
Plans, enemy
Corsica seizure: 255-56
based on German viewpoint: 73-74, 77
after TORCH: 260-62
Plans, French: 89-96, 132-33
Plans, tactical, need for training in preparation of: 671-72
Platon, Vice Adm. Rene (Fr.): 259, 286-87
Pohl, Gen. (Ger.): 325n
Points
243: 343
270: 235, 236, 516
290: 210-13
732: 462
Pointe Canastel: 193, 222
Pointe de la Tour: 100, 104, 106, 107
Pointe d'Espagnole: 193n
Pointe El Hank: 119
POL (petroleum, oil, lubricants): 111
consumption and requirements in north Tunisia: 607-08, 607n
deficiencies, Allied: 293
delivery problems: 44
losses at Kasserine, Allied: 477
reserves for Tunisia: 278-79, 496-97
shortage, Axis, in Tunis drive: 611, 611n, 612-13
supply, Axis, at Kasserine pass: 469
supply, Axis, at Tunis: 648-49, 650-51
Political Affairs Section, AFHQ: 54-57
Political negotiations in French colonies: 55, 77-83, 269
Political preparations: 54-59
interpretation of role by CinC: 55, 269
officials, President's message to: 91, 95
President, personal direction by: 55
proclamations, preparation of: 57
Political prisoners: 356, 500
Political problems: 77-83, 176-79, 225-27, 229, 249-51, 253-54, 355-62
Political situation in French colonies: 16. See also Civil affairs.
Political structure in French colonies, revision of: 500
Political warfare, plans for: 54-57
Pomigliano (Italy): 366n
Pomptow, Col. Heinz (Ger.): 409-10, 426-27
Pont Blondin: 130
Pont-du-Fahs: 290-91, 327, 333-35, 339, 370-71, 376-77, 394-99, 401, 403-05, 440, 456, 504, 541, 595-97, 600, 610-11, 644-45, 647-48, 653
Population of French Northwest Africa: 16-17, 47
Port-aux-Poules: 208
Porter, Capt. M. E.: 130
Port-Lyautey: 179-81. See also Mehdia.
advance from Mehdia to: 147-70
air action, Allied: 160-61, 165-68
airfield, seizure of: 41, 46, 149-53, 164-68
armor action: 168-69
armor support, Allied: 149-50, 152-53, 164-65
artillery support, Allied: 163, 164-68
attack by Allies: 157-70
casualties, Allied: 164-65, 170
coastal defenses: 147-48
counterbattery action: 163
French forces, reaction to assault: 153-57
garrison strength: 149-50, 154
Kasba, capture of: 167-68
landing craft losses: 168-69
naval support at: 163, 165-69
night operations: 163-65
port capacity: 17-18
prisoners, Allied: 164
prisoners, French: 164-65, 168
reinforcements, French: 160-61, 168-69
salvage operations: 169-70
secured by Allies: 167-68
submarine action: 169
surrender negotiations: 154-55, 169-70
topography: 147-49
unloading operations: 168-69
Port-Lyautey-Mehdia, substitute for Rabat: 42
Porter, Brig. Gen. Ray E.: 50-51, 251, 351-52, 396-97, 399n, 403-05
Porto Farina: 661
Ports. See also Debarkation operations; Unloading operations.
air attack by Allies: 306, 308, 335-36
antiaircraft defense of: 293-94
armor, required for seizing: 40-41
artificial, French development: 18-19
availability to enemy: 365-66
capacities of: 18, 497-98
conversion to Allied use, plans for: 270-71
native labor, employment of: 497-98
rehabilitated ports, defense of: 180
rehabilitation by Allies and enemy: 179-80, 258, 292-93

seizure, plans for: 25
supply operations: 497-99
Ports, facilities at: 40-41, 97-98, 116-17, 119, 135-36, 139-40, 278-79
Ports, Operation of: 495-99, 499n, 607
Ports of embarkation, as supply control agencies: 66-67
Portugal, communication to government from President: 57
Poste de Lessouda: 391-92, 411-12
Pozarica, HMS: 234
Primauguet (Fr.): 134
Princess Beatrix, HMS: 196
Prisoners. See also Casualties.
Allied: 157, 164, 212-13, 306-07, 330n, 394n, 396, 412- 13, 424, 436n, 450-51, 465-66, 467n, 477, 505, 508, 519, 533, 568n, 592n, 609-10, 633-34, 636-37
enemy: 320, 338, 381-82, 387-88, 398, 486, 537, 540-41, 550, 555n, 557-58, 580-81, 588-89, 591, 592n, 623, 634, 651n, 656-57, 662, 663-64, 665-67
French: 109, 130-31, 164-65, 168, 207-08, 218-19, 224-25, 248-49, 382, 427
Prisoners, interrogation of: 486, 580-81
Prisoners, recovered: 223-24, 381, 650
Proclamations, preparation of: 57
Propaganda activities: 54-57, 178-79, 204-05, 324
Protville: 312, 598, 660-61
Provisional Assault Group: 160-62
Provisional outline plan for TORCH: 29-30
Public Garden (Safi): 101
PUGILIST-GALLOP, abandonment of: 533-35
Pulks, definition: 366-67
Pyrotechnics, employment: 391

Queen Emma, HMS: 196-97

Rabat: 18, 41-42, 132, 139, 145, 179-80
Radar employment: 279-80, 366-67, 493-94
Radio activities: 57, 91. See also Communications.
Radio Alger (THA), plan for seizing: 52
Raeder, Grossadmiral Erich (Ger.): 73
Raff, Col. Edson D.: 212-13, 279, 289
Rahn, Dr. Rudolph: 286-87
Railway operation: 19-20, 180, 281-83, 292-93, 498, 607
Rainfall in Tunisia: 281-82
Randle, Col. Edwin H.: 107, 567
Ranger Battalion, 1st: 49, 192, 205-06, 216, 417-18, 433n, 443, 546-48, 557-58, 562-63, 574
Ranger, USS: 68, 121, 133, 139, 175-76
Rass Acrata: 235-36
Rass ed Dekhla: 565-66, 569
Rass el Djebel: 660-61
Rass Sidi Ali el Mekki. See Cap Farina,
Rastenburg conference of Axis commanders: 363-64, 368, 529
Raven, USS: 169
Ravin Blanc: 193n
Rebaa Oulad Yahia: 377-78, 379, 402-03, 490, 600
Rebaa Oulad Yahia valley: 337, 377-79, 386, 394
Rebaou pass: 391-92, 394
Reconnaissance, air. See Air reconnaissance.
Reconnaissance Battalions
81st: 387-88, 393n, 396, 397-98, 399, 412-13, 477-78, 548n, 565, 570n, 591, 620-21, 642-43, 656n, 660n
82d: 121
Reconnaissance, ground. See also Observation; Patrol operations.
Allied: 179-80, 198, 211, 300-301, 307, 378-79, 391-92, 407, 420, 461, 457-58, 473, 525-26, 546, 547, 552-54, 566-67, 617, 634, 651, 655, 672
enemy: 283-84, 286-87, 406, 407, 409-11, 412-13, 415-16, 425-26, 427, 438, 467, 471, 517, 559-60
Reconnaissance Troops
1st: 391n
3d: 125, 128
9th: 614-20, 653-54
Refugees, release of: 500
Reggio di Calabria (Italy): 366n
Regimental Combat Teams
7th: 643, 657-58
15th: 657-58
16th: 49, 63, 192, 205, 206-07, 208-10, 215-17, 221-22, 381-82, 427-28, 547, 571, 622-23, 624
18th: 49, 63, 192, 205, 206-08, 213, 336, 338-39, 350, 381-82, 402-03, 432-33, 442-43, 452-53, 456-57, 547, 562, 622
26th: 49, 63, 192, 199-201, 199n, 213, 216-17, 224-25, 352, 374, 381, 382-83, 402-03, 443, 456-57, 508-09, 547-48, 559-60, 571, 622
30th: 657-58
39th: 42, 51-52, 62, 67, 71, 235, 244-48, 291-93
47th: 114
60th: 150-52, 155-61, 162-63, 546-55, 564, 565n, 567n, 575n, 527
133d: 402-03, 418, 564
135th: 402
168th: 51, 52, 62, 63, 234-39, 291-92, 403, 411, 427-28
Région du Tell: 17
Rehearsals of landings: 68, 71
Reid, W. Stafford: 91
Reina del Pacifico, HMS: 205, 207

Reinforcements. See also Troop shipments.
Allied: 111-14, 162, 174-75, 216, 222, 287-88, 307-08, 326-27, 376-78, 380-81, 391-92, 395-96, 430-31, 432, 443, 449-50, 451-52, 459-60, 463, 465-67, 466n, 467, 469, 474, 506-07, 534-35, 552, 569, 637-38, 659-60
enemy: 9, 26-27, 255-56, 259n, 277, 288, 305-06, 310, 317-18, 323, 335-36, 338, 363-64, 368, 373-74, 379, 392, 396-97, 451, 454-55, 459-60, 536-40, 555-56, 603, 611, 613, 623-24
French: 111-14, 156-61, 162-63, 208-09, 216, 222
Relizane: 667
Rénan: 207-08
Renown, HMS: 185
Replacement depots, at Casablanca and Oran: 499
Reports, tactical, need for training in preparation of: 671-72
RESERVIST Force at Oran: 49-50, 202-04
Resistance forces, French. See Fighting French.
Resources, Allied, competing claims in Pacific upon: 10-11
RETRIBUTION (code name:) 663
Rhardimaou: 225-26, 402, 606-07, 643
Riccardi, Gen. (It.): 325n, 514
Richelieu (Fr.): 40, 271
Rigault, Jean: 189
Ringsak, Lt. Col. Elton W.: 433-34
Rintelen, von, Gen. Enno (Ger.): 9, 77, 261, 369-70
Rio Salado: 195-96
Rioult, Adm. (Fr.): 224
Ritter, Col. William L.: 618-19
River-crossing operations: 152, 163, 165-67, 531-32, 642-43, 651, 654-55
River systems. See Drainage systems.
Road construction: 399, 416-17, 472-73, 546-47
Road systems. See Highway systems.
Roadblocks: 157, 195-96, 198-99, 379, 418, 443
Robb, Air Vice Marshal J. M. (RAF): 354-55
Robb, Major Robert W.: 567n
Roberts, HMS: 234-35, 278
Robinett, Brig. Gen. Paul McD.: 47, 195, 198, 219-24, 317, 332, 374-81, 431, 433-34, 443, 457-74, 548, 552n, 554, 641, 656n
Roches Noires: 142
Rocket support, enemy, at Kasserine pass: 453-54
Rodney, HMS: 49, 185, 192-93, 202, 222-25
Roe USS: 156, 165, 169
Rogers, Col. Arthur H.: 121, 128
Rohia: 442-43, 458, 468, 470-71
Rommel, General Field Marshal Erwin: 260-61, 325n, 406, 426-27, 440-41, 449-57, 459-69, 479, 479n, 501-02, 508, 509-10, 517, 518-19, 521-22, 523n, 526
Allied strength, estimate of: 354n, 510-11
assigned to command Army Group Africa: 474-75, 476
Axis capabilities in February, review of: 509-12
Chott position, proposal for defense of: 528-29
Comando Supremo, acceptance of proposals by: 324-25
command status in 1941: 6-7
departure from Africa and return: 75-76
directive from Comando Supremo: 363-64
distrust of Comando Supremo: 476n, 479n, 502-04, 528-29
eclipse of: 77
force transferred to control of Comando Supremo: 9n
Gafsa attack, role in: 406-07, 409-10, 424-25, 426-27
Hitler, conference and directive: 322-25
Kasserine pass, decision to shift to: 453
Mareth position, proposal to shift to: 469-70, 475-77, 524-25
promotions: 8n, 9n
proposals for combining Axis forces: 405-06
proposals for countering Allies: 322-24, 326
reinforcement of: 363
relation of operations to Tunisia action: 321-22
second offensive, 1942: 8-10
succeeded by Arnim: 514, 519-20
succeeded by Messe: 368-70
supplies to: 9, 325-26
supply tonnages, estimate of: 511, 512-13
Tebessa, proposal for seizing: 426-27, 438-41, 442, 455-56
Tunisia, withdrawal of forces into: 363-65
Ronarc'h, Adm. Pierre Jean (Fr.): 171-72
ROOFTREE: 37-39
Rooks, Brig. Gen. Lowell W.: 47, 47n, 216, 487
Roosevelt, Franklin D.: 352-54, 358-59, 361-62, 499-500
Churchill conversations on strategy: 10-13, 28-29
Commander in Chief, restriction on powers of: 270-71
commits U.S. to TORCH: 13-14
Darlan, statement on arrangement with: 268
expectation of U.S. engagement in 1942: 12
French officials, message to: 57, 91, 95
Giraud's conditions, "approval" of: 83, 83n
North African Agreement, approval of: 269-70
political activities, personal direction of: 55
Roosevelt, Brig. Gen. Theodore: 199, 213, 217, 223, 381-82, 474, 623-24
Roosevelt-Molotov conversations: 11-12
Roper, Col. Harry McK.: 172-73
Rosenfeld, Lt. Col. A. H.: 246-47
Rosneath (training center): 62
Roubertie, Gen. Jean (Fr.): 239
Roum es Souk: 604-07

Rounds, Leland L.: 71, 225-27
ROUNDUP: 11n, 12-13, 15
Route de Grande Ceinture: 142, 145
Royal Air Force, failure of Luftwaffe to eliminate: 4-5
Royal Air Force units
43 Squadron: 247-48
81 Squadron: 248n
82 Squadron: 248n
242 Group: 355, 383-84, 493-95, 649, 667
272 Squadron: 257
Royal Navy. See Naval forces, Allied.
Royal Scotsman, HMS: 205-06
Royal Ulsterman, HMS: 205-06
Ruge, Vice Admiral Friedrich (Ger.): 514, 647n
Russell, Comdr. A. B.: 241
Russell, Lt. Col. Edward A., Jr.: 458
Russell, H. Earle: 91
Rutledge, USS. See Edward Rutledge, USS.
Ryder, Maj. Gen. Charles W.: 36-37, 37n, 51, 71, 234, 251-52, 442-43, 486-87, 490, 578-87, 590-91, 631-32, 634, 658

3d "S" Boat Flotilla: 254
Sabotage activities: 49-50, 56-57, 92, 153, 241, 244, 338
Safi: 17, 179-80
air action, Allied: 109-11
armor counterattack on: 108
armor support, Allied: 102, 105, 106-09
artillery support, Allied: 108
beach organization and expansion: 98-99, 109
casualties, Allied: 109, 114n
civilians, behavior of: 108-09
debarkation at: 102-04, 106-07
defenses of: 97-101
garrison strength: 99-101
landing at: 41, 46, 105-06
landing forces, composition: 42-43, 102
naval support at: 97, 104-08
port facilities: 17-18, 41, 97-98
prisoners, French: 109
reinforcements, French, attack on: 110-11, 112-14
security measures: 109
seizure by Allies: 97-115
submarine support of landing: 102-03
surrender negotiations: 172-73
topography: 97-98
unloading operations: 111
St. Amiel (Fr.): 165-67
St. Cyprien: 300-301, 305, 312, 649-50
St. Denis-du-Sig: 210
St. Didier, Gen. (Fr.): 402-03
St. Eugene: 221
St. Joseph's Farm: 301
St. Leu: 198, 208-11, 225
St. Cloud: 207-08, 213, 215, 220-21, 224-25
St. Lucien: 217-18
Ste. Barbe-du-Tlélat: 210-11, 216, 218
Ste. Marie-du-Zit: 598, 667
Sakket: 388-90, 550, 557, 565-66, 574
Salacia, HMS: 199
Salé: 18, 41, 46, 170, 179-80
Salients, Allied, at Sidi Bou Zid and Sbeïtla: 427-28
Salvage operations: 62, 169-70, 225. See also Ports, operation of.
Salzmann, Lt. Col. Rafael L.: 121, 129, 130, 138
Samuel Chase, USS: 71, 235, 244-46
Sanborn, Lt. Col. Oliver T., Jr.: 150
Sandaguïa: 420
Sanders, Air Commodore A. P. (RAF): 84
Sangamon, USS: 68, 150, 153, 165
Santee, USS: 68, 97, 109-10, 112, 114
Saouf: 644-45, 664-65
Sardinia, enemy expectation of attack on: 645-47
SATIN: 374, 382-84, 385-86
Savannah, USS: 150, 153, 158-59, 160, 165
Sbeïtla: 327, 348, 349, 352, 365, 374-76, 377-78, 381, 385, 387, 388-90, 391, 397, 399, 401-05, 407-09, 411, 413-14, 417-18, 423-24, 427-28, 440-42, 452-53, 477, 494, 544, 546-47, 548, 564, 577-79, 606-07
air action, Allied: 436, 436n
air action, enemy: 434-36
armor action: 377-78, 434-35
artillery support, Allied: 431, 433-35
attack by Allies: 425-27, 428-36
communications, Allied: 432
counterattack, enemy: 434-36
defense by Allies: 578-79
demolitions operations: 435-36
drainage system: 428
highway system: 428
matériel losses, Allied: 436n
minelaying operations: 431
night operations: 427, 431-34
prisoners, Allied: 436n
reconnaissance, enemy: 407, 425-26, 427
reinforcements, Allied: 430-31
salient, Allied, retraction of: 427-28
security measures, Allied: 423
seizure by Allies: 289-90
seizure by enemy: 289, 435, 441-42
as supply point: 607
tank losses, Allied: 435, 435n, 436n
tank losses, enemy: 434-35
topography: 428
withdrawal by Allies: 423-24, 426, 428-36, 438, 478
Sbiba: 282-83, 348, 349, 418, 423, 427-28, 438, 441, 442-43, 449-50, 451-52, 470-71, 479, 490, 509, 543, 546, 606-07
air support, enemy: 459

artillery support, Allied: 453-55, 459
artillery support, enemy: 452-53
attack by Allies: 428-30, 433
attack by enemy: 452-53, 458-60
counterbattery action: 452-53
defense by Allies: 436-37
demolitions operations: 453
mines, employment: 436-37, 452-53
reinforcements, Allied: 432-33, 459-60
roadblock established: 418, 443
security measures, Allied: 453
tank losses, Allied: 452-53
tank losses, enemy: 453, 459
withdrawal from and to, Allied: 436-37, 470
Sbikha: 591
Schirmer, Capt. (Ger.): 288n
Schloss Klessheim conference of Axis Commanders: 601-02, 645-47
Schmid, Gen. (Ger.): 609
Schmundt, Col. (Ger.): 664n
Schuermeyer, Capt. (Ger.): 254
Schwartz, Brig. Gen. Jacques (Fr.): 390, 393
"Scorpion" tanks: 531-32
Scott, USS. See Hugh L. Scott, USS.
Scouting, need for training in: 671-72
Scylla, HMS: 231-34
Sea Frontier Forces, Western TF, composition: 46
Seaplane anchorages. See Airfields.
Searchlight employment: 125, 130, 155, 243
Seatrains. See Shipping, Allied.
Sebou River: 41, 147-68
Sebkra, definition: 47
Sebkra d'Oran: 198-99, 218-19
Sebkret el Kourzia: 595-97, 600, 610-12
Sebkret en Noual: 557, 576-77
Sebkret es Sedjoumi: 598, 650
Second front, Soviet demands for: 11-12, 28-29
Second Manassas, comparison of Gafsa to: 545-46
Security measures
Allied: 65, 68-69, 72, 109, 136-37, 225-27, 249, 303, 379-81, 394, 403-05, 417-18, 423, 453, 667
enemy: 303-06, 307, 388-90, 394
Sedjenane: 308-09, 504-05, 541, 577, 604
Sedjenane River: 280, 296, 616-20, 639-40
Seidemann, Brig. Gen. Hans (Ger.): 370, 409-10, 469-70
Semmes, Lt. Col. Harry H.: 157-58, 169
Sened: 388-90, 397-98, 405-06, 543, 544-45, 550, 565-66, 569-70
Sened Station. See Station de Sened.
Service units, employment as combatants: 293
service units, enemy: 365-66
Service d'Ordre Legionnaire: 500
Services of Supply, ETOUSA: 65
Services of Supply, NATOUSA, 496
Services of Supply, War Department: 66
Sétif: 277-78, 292, 294, 496
Sfax: 260, 294-95, 338, 347-50, 351-53, 364-66, 371-72, 405-06, 440, 469-70, 476-77, 527, 583n, 590
antiaircraft support, Allied: 374-76
attack plans, enemy: 401
objective of Mareth operation: 526-27
occupation by enemy: 289
order of battle, Allied: 374-76
port operation: 607
seizure by Allies: 374-76, 514, 541
supply points for: 376
Shaw, Capt, R. J. (Rn): 235-36
Sheffield, HMS: 231-34
Shenandoah Valley, comparison of El Hamma to: 525
Shipping, Allied. See also Cargo transports; Troop transports.
availability for TORCH: 43-44
convoy organization: 65-66, 68-70, 71
French, allotments to: 362, 499
loading, plans and training for: 63, 67-68, 70
plans for protecting: 46, 49-50
responsibilities of each service for: 38-39
shortages in: 11, 53
use in support of landings: 65
Shipping, enemy
air attacks on: 73, 335-36
air support of: 367-68
losses during campaign: 367-68, 683
requirements for Tunisia: 325-326, 365
resort to coastal routes: 73
strength in Mediterranean: 367-68
supply deliveries, reliance on for: 513-14
Shipping, French
conversion to Allies, plan for: 270-71
directive on treatment of: 30-31
use by enemy: 367-68, 513-14
Shipping, Italian: 602, 645-48
Shockley, 2d Lt. Orion C.: 654-55
Shore parties: 135, 137, 195, 210, 235
Shore-to-shore operations, Tabarka to Bizerte: 309
Sicily: 366n, 494-95, 499, 595, 645-47, 648-49, 665-68
Sicily, strait of, enemy naval forces in: 7
Sidi Ahmed: 258, 293-94, 342, 366
Sidi Amor gap: 273
Sidi Athman: 312-13, 660-61
Sidi bel Abbes: 210, 216
Sidi Bou Zid: 365, 390-91, 393-94, 399, 403-05, 425-26, 433-34, 435-36, 477, 479, 487-90, 546, 577
air attack by enemy: 412, 419-20
antitank support, enemy: 420-21
armor action: 413-15
armor support, Allied: 406-07
armor support, enemy: 406-09
artillery support, Allied: 406, 413, 421

artillery support, enemy: 407-14, 420
attack by enemy: 405-07, 489
battle for: 410-11
casualties, Allied: 415n, 422
casualties, enemy: 422
communications, Allied: 411, 421-22
counterattack, Allied: 411, 416-17, 419-22
counterbattery action: 420-21
defense plans, enemy: 419-20
directive, enemy, on exploitation of: 435-40
directives, Allied: 418
highway system: 419-20
matériel losses, Allied: 414-16, 415n, 422n
matériel losses, enemy: 421-22
observation, ground: 411
reconnaissance, Allied: 420
reserve forces, Allied: 391-92, 416-17
salient, Allied, retraction of: 427-28
secured by enemy: 414-16
security measures, Allied: 394
seizure by enemy: 478-79
tank losses, Allied: 413-15, 415n, 421-22, 422n
tank losses, enemy: 421-22
topography: 419-20
withdrawal by Allies: 413, 423
Sidi Bou Zitouna: 619
Sidi Ferruch: 237-38
Sidi Mahmoud: 507-08
Sidi Mediene: 331. See also Peter's Corner.
Sidi Mhimech, supply point: 607
Sidi Nsir: 284, 290-91, 296, 298, 305-06, 330, 336-37, 490, 502-08, 613-14, 621-27, 641-42, 651
Sidi Saïd: 377
Sidi Salem: 420-21
Siebel ferries: 367-68, 640-41
Siglin, Major Carl: 299-301
Signal Companies. See also Armored Signal Companies.
3d: 145
9th: 549n
71st: 42
72d: 42
Signal Operation Company, 239th: 138
Signal Service Battalion, 829th: 137
Siliana: 349, 502-04, 507-08
Siliana River valley: 379
Sixth Port of Embarkation: 497-98
Sladen, Lt. Col. Fred W., Jr.: 121, 130-31
SLEDGEHAMMER: 11-14, 11n, 12n
Slessor, HMS. See Mary Slessor, HMS.
Slopes, defense of, need for training in: 671-72
Slourhia: 288, 330, 373-74, 504, 507-08
Smidia: 339
Smith, Lt. Col. John C.: 376
Smith, Lt. Col. Lon H.: 374
Smith, Maj. Gen. Walter B.: 33, 270, 357, 487, 515
Smoke, employment of: 381, 465, 536-37, 586-87, 635, 656
Sobieski, SS: 234-35
Sogno, Gen. Vittorio (It.): 295, 580-81
Soliman: 662-63
Somervell, Lt. Gen. Brehon B.: 361
Souk Ahras: 277, 292, 490, 496, 604-07
Souk el Arba: 273, 279, 287, 292-94, 305, 333, 494-95, 604-07
Souk el Khémis: 293-94, 295-96, 326-27, 401-02, 494-95
Sousse: 260, 279n, 289, 347, 348-49, 351-52, 365, 469, 485, 528, 533, 541, 580-81
Soviet Union
assistance to, difficulties in: 11-12
attack on, German: 6-8
second front, demand for: 11-12, 28-29
compromise with, Mussolini's proposal for: 601-02, 676
Cross-Channel attack, Allied dependence on for: 11-12
German success in 1952: 9-10
TORCH, approval of: 28-29
Sozzani, Generale di Divisione Nino: 527
Spaatz, Maj. Gen. Carl: 350, 354-55, 383, 492, 493-94, 573
Spain: 5, 26, 57, 601-02. See also Franco, Francisco.
Spanish Morocco, enemy proposal for attack through: 601-02
Special Operations Executive Section (Br.): 59
Spey, HMS: 187-88
Sponeck, von, Generalmajor Theodor Graf: 527-28, 664-65
Sprindis, 2d Lt. S. W.: 157
Stack, Col. Robert I.: 387, 392-96, 418, 419-21, 430, 548, 549, 552, 572, 624
Staff relations, Allied, results of African experience: 674-75
Staff structure, Allied: 15, 33, 150, 486-87
Stalin, Joseph V.: 28, 356n
Stalingrad, effect on of Tunisia operations: 363-64
Stanton, USS. See Elizabeth C. Stanton, USS.
Stark, Col. Alexander N., Jr.: 199, 352, 374-76, 381, 391-92, 393-94, 403, 432-33, 443, 446-52, 453-54, 456-57. See also Stark Force.
Stark, Adm. Harold R.: 23, 267-68, 270
Stark Force: 443, 451-52, 457-58
Starkweather, Lt. M. K. (USNR): 161-65
Station de Sened: 370-71, 388-90, 551
air attacks by enemy: 396
air support, Allied: 387-88
armor support, Allied: 387-88
artillery support, Allied: 387-88, 550
attack by Allies: 387-88, 396-99, 556-57, 558-59
casualties, Allied and enemy: 387-88

directives to Maraist on: 396-97
matériel losses, enemy: 550
orders, confusion in: 397-98
prisoners, Allied: 396
prisoners, enemy: 387-88, 550
reinforcements, Allied: 396
reinforcements, enemy: 396-97
seizure by Allies: 396-97, 548-50
tank losses, Allied: 387-88
Station de Zannouch: 547-50
Sternberg, Lt. Col. Ben: 623
Stevens, Col. Burrowes G.: 546
Stimson, Henry L.: 14, 268
Stokes, Lt. Col. W. M.: 112-13
Stolz, Lt. Col. (Ger.): 286-87, 289-90, 312
Stone, USS. See Thomas Stone, USS.
Stork, HMS: 234
Strategic consequences of Northwest African campaign: 675-77
Strategic decisions. See Decisions, strategic; Plans.
Strempel, Lt. Col. (Ger.): 398
Stroh, Brig. Gen. Donald A.: 567n, 618-19
Strong, Brig, Kenneth D. W. (Br.): 489
Stuka. See Dive bomber.
Stumme, Gen. Georg (Ger.): 75, 76
Styer, Maj. Gen. Wilhelm D.: 496n
Submarine, support by: 68-69, 102-03
Submarine actions: 7, 11, 72, 134, 169, 174-76, 186-87
Subversive activities, plans for fomenting: 57
Summerall, Lt. Col. Charles P., Jr.: 412
Sundin, Lt. Col. Alvar B.: 567n
SUPERCHARGE II: 533-37. See also El Hamma gap.
Supermarina. See Italian Naval High Command.
Supply, Allied. See also Unloading operations.
Crete, threat to: 7
daily tonnage estimates: 497n
at Djefna position: 619-20
at El Guettar: 574
at Kairouan pass: 379-80
in Mediterranean: 6, 7
in north Tunisia: 607-08
organization: 495-99
plans for: 66-47
through ports: 66, 497-99
requirements for TORCH, estimate of: 65-66, 67
reserve in United Kingdom, level established: 66-67
responsibility for classes of: 65, 65n
routing methods: 65-66
to Soviet Union, difficulties in: 11
supply shipments: 679
at Tebessa, accumulation: 376
Tébourba, resupply at: 315
within task forces: 66
Supply, enemy
by air in Tunis: 648-49
amounts delivered to enemy during campaign: 368
capability, Comando Supremo estimate: 512
capability, Kesselring's estimate: 512-13, 512n
deficiencies in Tunisia: 325-26
diversion from Rommel to Tunisia: 325-26
failure in Ousseltia valley: 382
Italian shipping for, use of: 602, 645-48
Malta, threat of: 8
Mediterranean routes: 365-66
naval forces, use in: 514
receipts in March: 499n
requirements, Hitler's estimate: 511-12, 513-14
to Rommel's forces: 9
shipping, reliance on: 513-14
shortage at Hill 609: 634
supply lines, threats to: 600-602, 640-41, 640n
supply shipments during campaign: 682
Tobruk, threat of: 7
tonnages required, estimates of: 363, 365-66, 510, 511, 512-13
Supply points: 141, 293, 376, 543, 607, 651
Supreme Allied Commander. See Allied Force Headquarters; Commander in Chief, Allied Forces; Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight D.
Supreme Command (General Staff), Italian. See Comando Supremo.
Surgical Hospital, 48th: 417-18
Surprise, loss of: 153-54, 196-97, 303-04, 339-41
Surrender negotiations: 57-58, 131-32, 154-55, 169-70, 171-74, 224, 243-44, 249-52, 662
Susan B. Anthony, USS: 153, 158, 170n
Suwanee, USS: 68, 121, 133
Svoboda, Lt. Col. Albert A.: 581-82
Swanson, USS: 121, 124, 130, 134
Swenson, Lt. Col. Edwin T.: 241, 244
Syfret, Vice Adm. Sir Neville (RN): 185
Sympson, Capt. Gordon H.: 105, 619-20
Syria, French seizure of: 7

Tabarka: 272-73, 279, 286-87, 288-89, 309, 440, 476-77, 604
Table d'Oukacha: 119, 133, 142-43
Tactical air support. See Air-ground co-operation; Air support.
Tactical methods, Allied, critique of: 671-73
Tactical methods, enemy: 479-80
Tadjera Kbir: 516, 517-18
Tadjerouïne: 273, 298, 440, 604-05
Tafaraoui airfield: 193, 195-96, 198-99, 209-12, 213, 216-17, 221-23, 225, 294
Takrouna: 598, 609
Tamera: 330, 505, 507-09
Tamezred: 527-28, 535

Tank Battalions
70th: 42, 102, 114, 162, 164, 169
751st: 578-79, 582n, 586, 653-54
756th: 42, 121, 128, 138
Tank Destroyer Battalions
601st: 378-79, 378n, 433-35, 461n, 462, 546n, 547-48, 560-62, 614-20
603d: 42
609th: 42
701st: 195n, 210, 210n, 289n, 302, 331, 391n, 392n, 396n, 397-98, 411-12, 411n, 419n, 430-31, 430n, 435, 546n, 548n, 623-24, 624n, 625
702d: 42
776th: 546n, 549n, 565n, 642n, 656, 660n
805th: 413, 430n, 443, 447-50, 455-56, 546n
813th: 546n, 578-79, 582n, 586
894th: 453-55, 461n, 462, 546n, 614-20, 653-54
899th: 546n, 560-62, 570n
Tank Destroyer Group, 1st: 546, 574
Tank destroyer support: 218
Tank employment, critique of tactical methods: 672-73
Tank losses
Allied: 300-301, 304-05, 307, 314, 317, 319-20, 331-32, 332n, 387-88, 392, 398, 413-15, 415n, 421-22, 422n, 435, 435n, 436n, 452-53, 459, 461-62, 466-67, 467n, 477, 505, 508, 509n, 519, 532-33, 571-72, 582, 588, 590, 591, 591n, 609-10, 611n, 612-13, 623, 635, 637, 656-57, 659-60
enemy: 283-84, 290-91, 301, 328, 331, 374, 381-82, 391, 398, 421-22, 434-35, 450-51, 453, 477, 508, 518-19, 519, 519n, 560-62, 571, 611, 612-13
French: 161, 218
Tank maintenance centers, at Bône and Le Kroub: 496-97
Tank recovery, Allied, at Bordj Toum: 332
Tank support. See Armor support.
Tank Transporter Company, 2622d: 606-07
Tank transporters, employment: 497-98, 606-07
Tank types: 306, 531-32
Tank versus tank. See Armor versus armor action.
Tarhuna: 364
Tasajera (Maracaibo): 209-10
Task Force A, Provisional Corps: 66
Task Force Benson: 570-77, 570n
Task Force GREEN. See Center Task Force; Oran.
Task Force Howze: 660-61
Task Force RED. See Center Task Force; Oran.
Task Force 34, Atlantic Fleet. See Western Naval Task Force.
Task forces, for TORCH: 31, 35, 66
Tasker H. Bliss, USS: 128, 175-76
Taxes, plans for collecting: 58
Taylor, Col. Georg. A.: 547, 631, 636-37
Taza: 179
Taza gap: 17
Tébessa: 272-73, 279, 292, 326-27, 351-52, 364-65, 394-95, 401-02, 403-05, 409-10, 427-28, 435, 457, 465-66, 470-71, 478-79, 490, 496-99, 512, 525, 544, 604-06
attack by enemy: 388, 401, 405-06, 426-27, 439-42, 449-50, 453, 455-56, 479n
command reorganization, enemy: 441
concentration, Allied: 438
defense by Allies: 436, 443, 457-58
mines, employment: 512
motor convoy operations: 499n
orders, enemy, confusion in: 441-42
ordnance shops at: 376
supply dumps at: 376
Tébourba: 290-91, 296, 299-307, 311-20, 336-37, 343-44, 372, 595, 620-21
air attack by Allies: 649
air attack by enemy: 318-19
armor attack by enemy: 304-05
artillery support, enemy: 319-20
defense organization, enemy: 303-06
dispositions, Allied: 311
drainage system: 303-04
occupation by Allies: 303
reinforcements, Allied: 307-08
resupply at: 315
tactical importance: 303-04
tank losses, Allied: 304-05
topography: 303-04
withdrawal by Allies: 318-20
withdrawal by enemy: 300-301, 304-05, 650
Tébourba gap: 311-20, 329-31, 337, 342, 371-72, 373-74
air attack by enemy: 315-19
air support, Allied: 314-15
armor action: 315-19
artillery support, Allied: 314-15, 317-20
casualties, Allied: 320n
communications, Allied: 316-17
counterbattery action: 314-15
matériel losses, Allied: 320, 320n
prisoners, Allied: 320
tank losses, Allied: 317, 319-20
topography: 311
withdrawal from and to, Allied: 314-15, 316-17
Teboursouk: 287, 293-94, 326-27, 330, 507, 608
Tedder, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur (RAF): 354-55, 492, 573, 669
Tegelberg (Dutch): 207
Télergma: 335
TERMINAL Force operations: 53, 241-44
Terrain description. See Topography.

Terrain features, necessity for seizing: 671-72
Testour: 291, 329-30, 373-74, 502-04, 507-09
Texas, USS: 150, 153, 159, 165-67
Thala: 418, 427-28, 435, 442-43, 448, 451-53, 457-58, 460-62, 470-73, 479, 490
air action, Allied: 467-68, 467n
air action, enemy: 465, 467, 470
armor action: 465-66
armor support, Allied: 466-67
artillery support, Allied: 466-67
attack by enemy: 460, 501, 508
casualties, Allied: 467n
communications failure, Allied: 465-66
defense by Allies: 457-58, 460, 464-73
failure to exploit, enemy: 467
matériel losses, Allied: 467n
prisoners, Allied: 465-66, 467n
reconnaissance, enemy: 467
reinforcements, Allied: 466n, 465-67, 469
smoke, employment: 465
tank losses, Allied: 466-67, 467n
Thélepte: 401-02, 439-40, 451, 470, 490, 494-95, 546-47, 573
aircraft losses, Allied: 437
airfield, seizure of and withdrawal from by Allies: 423-24, 433, 436-38, 543
attack by enemy: 462
demolitions, employment: 437
matériel losses, Allied: 437
reconnaissance, enemy: 427
road construction: 546-47
Thibar: 326-27, 494-95, 608
Third Port of Embarkation: 497-98
Thomas Jefferson, USS: 123, 124n, 125, 176n
Thomas Stone, USS: 71, 187, 187n, 188, 245
Thurston, USS: 140, 176n
Tides, effect on landing operations: 43. See also Weather.
Tine River: 280
Tine River valley, operations in: 299-301, 304-05, 309, 333-35, 495-97, 613-14, 620-27, 634, 638-40, 641-43, 648-53, 656-58
Tit Mellil: 142, 144, 145
Titania, USS: 102, 108, 111
Tobruk: 7-9
Tlemcen: 466
Todd, Lt. Col. John: 195n, 198-99, 218-20, 223-24, 328-29
Toffey, Lt. Col. John J., Jr.: 157-58, 554-55
Togoland, collaboration with Allies: 270-72
Topography: 19-20, 47-48, 51-52, 97-99, 116-18, 119, 147-49, 196, 200, 203, 230-31, 241-42, 280-83, 303-04, 307, 338-39, 388-90, 419-20, 428, 444-47, 505-06, 517, 522-24, 525, 537-38, 544-45, 553-54, 557-58, 566-67, 578-80, 598, 604-05, 613-16, 620-21, 622-23, 628-31, 642
TORCH (landing in Northwest Africa)
air build-up for: 50
Algiers, plans for operations at: 50-54
Allied capabilities, enemy estimates: 74
Allied commander, selection and directive to: 15-16
amphibious training, inadequacy of: 185
Center TF, role in: 46-50, 70-72
Churchill-Roosevelt conversations: 13, 28-29
Churchill-Stalin conversations: 28-29
Combined Chiefs of Staff, role in: 13-14, 16
command, unity of, tested: 37, 39
command structure proposed: 14, 37-38, 39, 50-51, 53
concept of operation determined: 29
conclusion of operation: 253-73, 295-96
convoy organization and routes: 68-70, 71-72
D-day, selection of: 27
deadlock on, broken: 13
decision to undertake: 10-14
Draft Outline Plan (Partial): 27, 29-30
Eastern TF, role in: 35, 70-72
enemy plans after: 260-62
enemy reaction to Allied success: 253-54
French co-operation after, efforts to gain by enemy: 254-60
French forces, role in: 13n, 82, 82n, 83, 92-95, 253-54
joint Army-Navy participation, directives for: 37-39
landing forces, agreement on: 29
landing sites, enemy confusion regarding: 186-87
landings, time set for: 89
logistical support, plans for: 63-67
mission of: 16-21
naval support, plans for: 36-37, 185-86
Northern TF, role in: 65, 266-67
Oran, plans for seizing: 46-50
phases of, two major: 89-90
planning responsibilities, directive providing for: 38
plans, tactical: 32-59
political considerations involved: 54-59, 77-83
postponement, French request for: 85
preparations for, completing: 60-85
radio activities: 90-91
Raeder's warning on: 73
reinforcements for Eastern TF: 53n
Roosevelt decisions on: 13-14
sabotage plans in support of: 92
ship loading plans: 67-68, 70
shipping in support of landings: 65
Soviet approval of: 28-29
strategic planning for: 25-31
submarine protection of: 68-69
supply plans: 65-67

target, failure of enemy to identify: 74
target date, factors affecting: 13
task forces, composition: 31
training for assault: 60-63
transports, arrival in Mediterranean: 84
Western TF, role in: 39-46, 67-70
Tostain, Col. Paul (Fr.): 188-89
Toudjane: 522-24, 534-35
Toukabeur: 342, 504, 506-07, 508-09
Toulon, French warships scuttled at: 321
Toungar: 342
Toward (training center): 62
Tozeur: 425, 440, 525, 528
Traffic congestion, at Mateur: 652-53
Training, amphibious. See Amphibious training.
Training, of landing forces: 61, 62, 63, 171-81
Transportation. See Motor convoy operation; Motor vehicles.
Transports. See Cargo transports; Shipping; Troop transports.
Trapani (Sicily): 366-67
Trevor, Lt. Col. T. H.: 236, 239-40, 246-47
Tripoli: 10, 353-54, 364, 365, 521-22
Tripolitania: 323-24
Troop shipments
Allied: 679
enemy: 682, 683
Troop transports
arrival in Mediterranean: 84
attack on, Allied: 600-601
availability for TORCH: 43-44
for Fedala landing: 121
loading, plans for: 67-68, 70
Troubridge, Commodore Thomas H. (RN): 36, 36n, 71, 191-93, 195-96, 213, 224
Trucks. See Motor convoy operation: Motor vehicles.
Truscott, Maj. Gen. Lucian K.: 42n, 145, 149, 150, 153-54, 157-58, 159-62, 168, 169, 350-51, 383, 391-92, 417, 432, 487, 643, 657-58
Tuck, S. Pinkney: 250-51
Tuck, Major William R.: 218, 219-20, 300
Tunis: 17, 258-59, 277, 280, 288-89, 290, 295-96, 305-06, 365-67, 370, 485, 501, 595-98, 599-600, 604-05
air action, Allied: 257, 293-94, 299-300, 601
air supply, enemy: 648-49
airborne operations: 306, 309
aircraft losses, Allied: 611
aircraft losses, enemy: 370
ammunition supply, enemy: 611, 611n, 648-49
armor, enemy, merger of: 611, 612-13, 612n
armor action: 610-11
armor strength, enemy: 648-49
armor support, Allied: 291-92, 312
artillery support, Allied: 336-37
artillery support, enemy: 610-11
attack, enemy discovery of: 303-04
attack from north, Allied: 299-302
attack plans, Allied: 277-98, 326-28, 329-30, 335-99, 402, 614-49
attack from south, Allied: 301-05
attack toward, Allied: 299-310
battle for: 601-51
bridgehead, enemy, extension of: 405-06
casualties, Allied: 609-10
climax of Allied drive: 307-08
command reorganization, Allied: 354 59
command structure, enemy: 648-49
communications, enemy: 312
counterattacks, enemy: 311-21, 644
defense plans, enemy: 300-301, 333-35, 603
dispositions, enemy: 312-13, 647-49, 650-51
dispositions, French: 326-28
drive on, by Allies: 609-13, 649-51
effect of defeats on Allied advance to: 317-18
effect of operations on enemy forces: 310
matériel losses, Allied: 609-10, 611
mines, employment: 610, 612
perimeter established by enemy: 289-91
POL supply, enemy: 611, 611n, 612-13, 648-51
postponement of Allied second attack: 343-44
prisoners, Allied: 609-10, 650
regrouping, Allied, for attack: 291-92, 329-35
reinforcements, enemy: 611, 613
stalemate at: 311-44, 363-72
strategic importance to enemy: 513-14
tank losses, Allied: 609-10, 611n, 612-13
tank losses, enemy: 611, 612-13
victory parade in: 669
advance into, Allied: 277-80
Tunisia
air attacks, Allied: 279-80, 293-94, 310, 494-95, 600-602
air attacks, enemy: 278, 287, 293-94
air command reorganization, Allied: 492-95
air defense, Allied, organization after surrender: 667
air forces, Allied, missions: 354-55
air forces, enemy, consolidation: 370
air power, Allied, problems faced: 335
air reconnaissance, enemy, on southern front: 469
air reinforcements, enemy: 257
air strength, Allied: 335n
air strength, enemy: 295
air support, Allied: 278, 279-80, 401-02, 485-86
air support, enemy: 338
air transport, Allied, use of: 280
air transport, enemy, in reinforcement role: 603
air warning equipment, deficiency in: 279-80

airborne support: 277, 278-79, 289
aircraft, enemy, transfer to Sicily: 648-49
aircraft losses, enemy: 601
airfield development and defense: 335, 401-02, 485, 493-95
airfields, enemy: 254-55, 370
airfields seized: 277, 278-79
Allied intentions, enemy estimate of: 322
ammunition supply, Allied: 607
Arabs, enemy efforts to recruit: 321
armor action, first: 301-02
armor employment, enemy plans for: 602-03
armor strength, enemy: 310, 335-36, 371
armor support, enemy: 305-06
attack, enemy, halt in: 424-27
attack plans, Allied: 295-98, 349-54, 595, 598-602, 605-07
attack plans, enemy: 333-35, 405-16
boundary designations, Allied: 418
boundary designations, enemy: 370-72, 405-06
bridgehead, enemy, defensibility: 288-91
casualties, Allied, during campaign: 675
casualties, enemy: 675-76
coastal defenses: 294-95
coastal plain, area: 281-82
coastal plain, battle for and pursuit to: 530-33, 539-42
collapse of enemy forces: 659-68
command, unity of, enemy: 405-06
command relations and reorganization, Allied: 298, 382-83, 474-77, 485-89, 600n
command reorganization, enemy: 474-75, 476-77
Commandos, plans for employment: 277
communications, Allied: 280, 485-86, 494
communications zone, reorganization: 494-99
composition of Allied forces: 295-96
concentration of Allied forces: 347-481
consolidation of Allied forces: 373-76, 427-30
contact with enemy, first: 283-86
defense, enemy plans for: 363-64, 419-20, 476-77, 601-04, 645-47, 665-67
defense, Rommel's proposals for: 322-24, 326
defense lines, enemy: 595-98
defense organization, Allied, after surrender: 667
demolition teams, Allied: 289
directive on employment of II Corps: 599-600, 600n, 604
directives to Anderson: 401-02
dispositions, Allied: 402-05, 486-87, 489-92, 604-08
dispositions, enemy: 294-95, 333-35, 401-02, 601-04
dispositions, French: 258-59, 283-84
drainage system: 280-82, 348-49
Eastern TF, landing and advance toward: 253, 278
Eighth Army, approach of: 521-22
Eisenhower assumes direct command: 350-51
enemy capabilities, estimate of: 645-47
February battles, enemy objectives: 477
February battles, situation after: 477-81, 490-92
February offensive, enemy, summary of: 508-09
final phase of operations: 593-668
first battle at Medjez el Bab: 287-89
French, Axis break with: 287-88
French forces, attitude toward Axis: 283-86, 294-95, 321
French forces, contact with: 279
German occupation, appearance of: 257
government, communications to from President: 57
highway system: 281-83, 298, 348-49
importance to enemy: 321-22, 323-24
intelligence collection in: 485-46, 489
Juin appointed Resident General: 669
juncture of Allied forces: 576-77
juncture of enemy forces: 364-65, 368-69, 371-72
lines of communication, Allied: 277-78, 282, 292-93, 309, 327, 352
lines of communication, enemy: 288-89, 325-26, 401-02, 591-92
logistical support, enemy: 310, 324-26, 512-14
loss of, effect on Italy: 676
loss of, Hitler's explanation: 676-77
mass, principle of, violation by enemy: 479-80
middle phase, end of: 592
mines, employment: 402, 487-89
mission, enemy: 288-91
morale, enemy, after surrender: 665-67
motor march of II Corps: 604-07
motor transport strength and use, enemy: 371, 602
Nehring assumes command of enemy forces: 284-87
northern sector, enemy attack on: 501-05, 508-09
northern sector, operations in: 483-96, 600-62
northern sector, pursuit of enemy to: 539-42
occupation, enemy, and French reaction: 256-57, 258-60
offensive, Allied: 586-91
offensive of II Corps: 613-43
order of battle, Allied: 601n
patrol operations, Allied: 403-05
pocketing of enemy forces: 661-62
POL consumption and requirements, Allied: 278-79, 496-97, 607-08, 607n
policy in, enemy: 257
political structure: 16

ports, air attacks on by Allies: 306, 308
possession required for control of NW Africa: 26-27
prisoners, enemy: 592n, 662, 665-67
propaganda activities, enemy: 324
radar, employment: 493-94
railway systems: 278-79, 281-83, 292-93
rainfall: 281-82
rearmament of French by Allies: 361-62
reconnaissance, enemy: 283-84, 469
reinforcements, Allied: 326-27
reinforcements, enemy: 74, 255-61, 277, 305-06, 310, 317-18, 335-36, 338, 363-64, 368, 603
reorganization, Allied, after surrender: 665-68
repulse, enemy: 459-81
review of situation by Arnim in February: 509-12
reviews of situation, periodic, by CinC: 403-05, 417
Rommel's operations, relation to: 321-22
Rommel's withdrawal into: 363-65
sabotage activities: 338
security measures, Allied: 403-05, 667
SATIN operation: 349-54
shift of operations to: 483-96
shipping, enemy: 325-26
southern sector, operations in: 423-37, 442-43, 662-65
stalemate in after Tunis: 371-72
Stalingrad, effect of on enemy forces: 363-64
strategic decisions, enemy: 321-26
strategic plans, Allied: 485-86
strength of Allied forces: 335-36
strength of enemy forces: 291-92, 294-95, 370-72, 603n, 604n
supply level requirements, Allied: 607
supply level requirements, enemy: 363, 365-66
supply operations, Allied: 607-08
supply operations, enemy: 325-26, 368, 602, 645-48
surrender of enemy forces: 659-62
topography: 280-83, 347-49, 595-98, 604-05
vegetation: 280-81, 348-49
withdrawal by enemy, operations to prevent: 663-64
withdrawal to west, Allied plan for: 423-24
Turkey, neutrality proclaimed: 7
Tuscaloosa, USS: 96, 133
Twain, USS. See Mark Twain, USS.
Twelfth Air Force: 37, 53, 211-12, 215, 223, 225, 293-94, 354-55, 492, 497n
Tynwald, HMS: 235, 278
Typhon, (Fr.): 204

U-130: 175-76
U-173: 175-76
Underground forces. See Fighting French.
Ulster Monarch, HMS: 205-06
Unification of French forces: 669-71
Unit of fire, definition: 62n
United Kingdom
American troops in, plans for concentrating: 11
Cross-Channel attack in 1942, doubt concerning: 12
departure of task forces from: 70-72
invasion of, German plans for: 4-5
Norway, readiness for operations in: 12
supply levels established for: 65-66, 67
Vichy France in Africa, potential support of: 10
Unloading operations: 111, 125-27, 134-37, 140, 144-45, 160, 161, 168-69, 174-76, 198, 213-14, 237-38, 365-66. See also Debarkation.

Vaerst, von, General der Panzer Truppen Gustav: 519, 612-13, 647-49, 650-51, 661-62
Valmy: 218-23
Van Nostrand, 1st Lt. Richard H.: 195, 198
Van Vliet, Lt. Col. John H., Jr,: 419
Vegetation in Tunisia: 280-81, 348-49
Veteran organizations, activities of: 356
Vibo Valentia (Italy): 366n
Viceroy of India, HMS: 234, 235
Vichy France
action against Axis, forbids: 287
Algiers occupation, reaction to: 250-51
anti-British alliance, plans for: 5
attitude of population toward Allies: 22
collaboration with Allies, reaction toward: 262-63
colonies, pledge to defend: 5
colonies, relations with 5, 22-24, 500
distrust of by Axis: 254-56
distrust of by French military forces: 669-71
Fighting French, attitude toward: 22
government, communications to from President: 57
government, recognized by U.S.: 23
Hitler's aspirations, attitude toward: 5
Noguès, assigned as commander: 264, 265-67
occupation of by Axis forces: 256-57, 264
Oran, activities at: 225-27
policies, emulation of by colonies: 356-57
policy of friendly relations with Axis: 73-74
policy toward, Allied, objective of: 22-24
reaction to Mediterranean landings: 187
recruitment of supporters of for Fighting French: 670-71
support, military, Axis offer of: 254
support of by British, potential: 10
Ultimate status, decisions on: 31
United States, break with: 251

Victorious, HMS: 185
Victory parade in Tunis: 669
Vigier, de, Col. J. L. Touzet (Fr.): 273
Vincent, Lt. Col. Stewart T.: 238-39
Viret, Lt. de Vaisseau Hubert (Fr.): 84

Wadi Zebbeus: 449-51
Walney, HMS: 202-04
Walt Whitman, USS: 196
Ward, Maj. Gen. Orlando: 352, 374-76, 387, 393, 395, 397, 399-400, 413-17, 418, 421-22, 428-30, 432-33, 443, 468, 471-74, 487, 490-92, 549-56, 564-65, 572, 575-76
Ward, Col. Robert W.: 402-03, 436-37, 509, 581, 630-32
Waters, Lt. Col. John K.: 210, 218-19, 220, 223-24, 299, 410-11, 419, 422, 424
Weapons, comparison of Allied and enemy: 479-81
Weather, alternative plans for meeting: 44-45
Weber, Col. Friedrich (Ger.): 370-71, 376-77
Weichold, Adm. (Ger.): 325-26, 325n
Wells, Lt. Col. W. W.: 452
Welsh, Air Marshal Sir William L. (RAF): 37, 84, 294
Welshman, HMS: 174
Welvert, Gen. Joseph Edouard (Fr.): 273, 351, 352, 387, 392-93, 417, 443, 456-57, 591-92
"Welvert Road": 546-47
Wendt, Lt. Col. Walter W.: 578n
West Africa, co-operation of French forces in: 270-72
Western Air Command: 37, 46
Western Desert Air Force: 493-95, 527, 531, 532-33, 535, 547-48, 649n
Western Dorsal: 281-82, 348-49, 477, 490
air reconnaissance, enemy: 438
attack by Allies: 337
defense by Allies: 438, 456-57
dispositions, Allied: 443
failure to exploit by enemy: 426-27
reconnaissance, enemy: 438
swing to by Allies: 427-30
withdrawal to, Allied: 423-24, 436-37
Western Naval Task Force: 44, 103-04, 176-80. See also Naval forces, Allied.
Western Task Force
air support of: 43, 46
amphibious training: 60-63
Casablanca selected as target: 40
commander, selection of: 35, 36
convoy organization: 68-70
departure for TORCH: 67-70
deputy commander, assignment of: 42
Fedala landings: 121, 123-27, 130-31
mission finally established: 40
naval support of: 46
operations after surrender: 178-81
Oran, target changed to: 40
plans for employment: 3946
reorganization in Morocco: 178-81
shore headquarters established: 137
subtask forces, composition: 46
supply levels fixed: 66
in surrender negotiations: 171-72
training after surrender: 171-81
units, assignment of: 42, 43-44, 44n
Westphal, Col. Siegfried (Ger.): 260-61, 502
Weygand, Gen. Maxime (Fr.): 17, 23
Wheatland, HMS: 278
White Fathers' monastery: 608
Whiteley, Brig. J. F. M. (Br.): 33
Whitman, USS. See Walt Whitman, USS.
Wichita, USS: 96, 133
Wilbur, Brig. Gen. William H.: 96, 128, 128n, 132
Wilkes, USS: 121, 124, 130, 134
Williams, Col. Paul L.: 383-84, 433
Willkie, Wendell: 268
Wilson, Brig. Gen. Arthur R.: 66
Wilson, Col. Robert W.: 374n, 607
Wilson, Capt. Thomson: 105
Wilton, HMS: 234-35
Winchester Castle, HMS: 234-35, 237
Windmill Farm: 623
Winooski, USS: 121, 175-76
Witzig, Major Rudolph (Ger.): 284n, 504-05
Wolfe, Col. Henry C.: 62
Wood, USS. See Leonard Wood, USS.
WOP Operation: 544-47
Wright, Capt. Jerauld (USN): 81

X Beach. See Mersa Bou Zedjar

Y Beach. See Les Andalouses.
Youks-les-Bains: 279, 293-94, 335, 494, 573

Z Beach: 48-49, 206-10, 210n
Zaafria: 413-14
Zarat: 522, 532-33
Zarhouan: 290-91, 327, 333-35, 598, 600, 604, 650-51, 663, 664-65
Zemlet el Lebene: 516-18, 522
Zéralda: 235-36
Zeroud River: 579-81
Zetland, HMS: 235, 244, 246, 248
Ziegler, Gen. Heinz (Ger.): 326, 407-10, 415-16, 425-26
Zigzaou wadi: 522-23, 526, 531-34

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