How Did The United States Begin Our First Large Scale Offensive In World War II?
With a surprise attack on a neutral power, Vichy France. After our agents tried to subvert the government in French North Africa. The agents failed and our landings in French Morocco and Algeria were met with resistance that lasted for three days. In those three days, the United States suffered more than a thousand casualties and had more than 300 killed. British losses were probably similar, and French losses, since they were taken by surprise and outgunned, were almost certainly greater. (This was our first attack on Vichy France, but it was not Britain’s. After the fall of France, Britain had demanded that the French fleet in Mers el Kébir (near Oran, Algeria) be moved to a neutralcountry or to Britain. When the French refused, Britain attacked and destroyed much of the fleet. A British bombing attack on a Renault plant in occupied France near Paris had killed more than 500 French civilians. Britain had intervened in the French colonies of Syria and Madagascar and sponsored an unsuc
