
Soon after the 8 November Torch landings, the Axis began rushing troops from France and Italy into northern Tunisia, using both sea transport and an airlift.Within a week after the 8 November Operation Torch Allied landings in Morocco and Algeria, the British First Army, which included the US II Corps, began advancing east from Algeria into northern and central Tunisia.General Bernard Montgomery's Eighth Army then began following the retreating German and Italian forces.


Preliminaries - The Tunisian Campaign began with four salient events in November 1942:
