US military in North Africa during World War II

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US Military in North Africa during the WW II

The second world II was a world wide conflict which started in 1939 and ended in 1945 . The war was fought in different places in the world . One was fought in Asia at around 1937 , the other in Europe in 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Germany . Another one was also fought in African continent . It led the world nations to split into two that is . Allies (Britain and America ) and the axis (Germany and

Italy ) The Second World War started when Hitler invaded Poland on September first in 1939 . About million Australians fought in the Second World War in campaigns against Germany and Italy in Europe , North Africa , Mediterranean and against Japan in South East Asia as well as in other parts of the Pacific . The main focus in this will be to discuss on the US military involvement in North Africa during the Second World War

In 1942 , November , United Kingdom military forces in conjunction with US military forces staged war against the French North Africa . It was the result of the long contentious argument between American planners of war and those of Britain . The turbulence of this argument was calmed by the American president 's Franklin D Roosevelt intervention . American dream about the Second World War in 1942 was to attack and defeat Germany before proceeding to Asia to see the harm the Japanese were causing to Pacific territories

In the same year , the Soviet Army was far much pressed by the Germany-panzers division who were leveling attacks on Russia . Some American planners thought it was not necessary to attack North Western Europe . They planned that come 1943 , the American army would be well prepared , trained and equipped to meet the Germany 's aggressive troops The American planners believed that its army 's knowledge and resources could help them to accomplish their mission of bringing Germany troops down

The British military leaders under the field marshal Alan Brooke (Dennis

. 2002 78 ) adopted a different approach . They never thought it wise to start launching their attacks in 1942 . The main reason why they were opposed to this idea was because taking such a move would force United Kingdom to bear much of the military burden . At this time , they could not have afforded to have a division in the army because they were experiencing a fierce fight against Germany which had already inflicted a lot of harm to their army . Most of their military had met stiff resistance of the Wehrmatch in France during the disastrous 1940 campaign . At this time their forces under field marshal Erwin Rommel they had done practically nothing to end or reduce the German military process in North Africa and in Libya

After the war , Brooke found the strategy of the Marshal very incompatible and that he did not appreciate what the operations in France would mean . He could not figure out how the Germans could...