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Operation Reservist | |||||||
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Part of Operation Torch of the Second World War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United Kingdom United States | Vichy France | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Frederick Peters George F. Marshall[1] † | André Rioult | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
393 landing troops 2 sloops |
4,000 soldiers 31 warships | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
United States: 194 killed 164 wounded United Kingdom: 113 killed 86 wounded 2 sloops destroyed | 165 killed |
Operation Reservist was an Allied military operation during the Second World War. Part of Operation Torch (the Allied invasion of North Africa), it was an attempted landing of troops directly into the harbour at Oran in Algeria.[2]