ALLIES ESTABLISH PRESENCE IN VICHY NORTH AFRICA
Gibraltar Mediterranean Forward Operating Base • November 8, 1942 Within 4 weeks of the massive German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 (Operation Barbarossa), with Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht (German armed forces) easily and quickly advancing on the Soviet capital, Moscow, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin on July 19, 1941, and again in September pressed Great Britain and…