20 October 1942Tuesday 20 October 1942
Eighth Air Force: Lieutenant General Dwight D Eisenhower issues
a directive
reflecting the immediate urgency of Operation TORCH (plan for
the Allied
landings in N and NW Africa in Nov 42) as the currently
important item of
Allied strategy and requiring the Eighth AF, as a matter of
first priority,
to protect the movement of men and supplies from the UK to N
Africa by
attacking German submarine bases on the W coast of France, with
shipping
docks on the French W coast as a secondary targets for these
missions and
with German aircraft factories and depots in France as second
priority.
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