Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Operation Torch

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  1. 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers
    1:40:16Benham exposed the tradeoff between torpedoes and screening weaponsChapter
  2. Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?
    10:51Isaac Sweers's rescues and loss to U-431Notable Point
  3. Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?
    58:40Operation Torch as coalition rehearsalChapter
  4. France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII
    31:40La Terrible from Mers-el-Kebir to CorsicaChapter
  5. France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII
    52:32Alcyon and Basque enter Allied service lateNotable Point
  6. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    2:56:44If the Axis evacuated North Africa in late 1942Q&A
  7. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    1:30:18Why U.S. Marines were absent from NormandyQ&A
  8. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    5:59:14Why Alhucemas did not become an Allied amphibious textbookQ&A
  9. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I
    1:24:46Why U.S. naval commitment in the Atlantic rose and fellNotable Point
  10. Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:34:05Why an Axis Mediterranean would not force an early cross-Channel invasionQ&A
  11. Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    6:26:59Torch escort priorities and British ships for the US NavyNotable Point
  12. Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise
    2:00:52Britain's largest amphibious assaultQ&A
  13. Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise
    3:40:28USS Ranger's value in Operation TorchQ&A
  14. Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live
    2:34:36Why Torch and independent sailings delayed RegenbogenNotable Point
  15. Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live
    3:07:48Why larger destroyers were busy elsewhereNotable Point
  16. Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings
    59:15U-331's surrender signals fail to stop an air attackNotable Point
  17. Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...
    1:09:56Withdrawal and the possibility of a new Pacific agreementChapter
  18. Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/4
    39:09How a major Pacific defeat could reshape the global Allied warQ&A
  19. Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/4
    47:34Dividing Torch between Guadalcanal and Eighth ArmyNotable Point
  20. Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote
    3:32:03Spain in the Axis turns Gibraltar into a battlefrontQ&A
  21. Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion
    45:12Ranger exposes infrastructure and innovation limitsNotable Point
  22. Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 3
    33:20The missing landing-ship detail in Operation Torch accountsChapter
  23. 809 Squadron Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm: The Immortals
    22:00Seafire operations from Salerno to RangoonChapter
  24. HMS Princess Beatrix & HMS Queen Emma Landing Ship Infantry(Medium) - When Dutch Ferries go to War
    29:44From Gibraltar convoys to Operation TorchChapter
  25. 'S' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's All Rounders for WWII - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 7
    1:02:17Seraph carries Allied negotiators in Operation FlagpoleChapter
  26. Landing Ship Tanks Mk1s: The First Attempts to Get Troops Ashore - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 3
    14:30Misoa and the cancelled seizure of the AzoresNotable Point
  27. Landing Ship Tanks Mk1s: The First Attempts to Get Troops Ashore - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 3
    16:18Misoa lands tanks in Operation TorchChapter
  28. Landing Ship Tanks Mk1s: The First Attempts to Get Troops Ashore - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 3
    19:14Tasajera survives an aerial torpedoNotable Point
  29. Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?
    1:04:05Bernard Austin from destroyer combat to naval administrationChapter
  30. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    18:49Why submarine success cannot be read from sinkings aloneNotable Point
  31. Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    20:58Reading a wartime picture weekly from December 1942Chapter
  32. Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    29:15North Africa, Rodney, and the escort-carrier idea in wartime printChapter
  33. Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 2
    11:22Operation Torch drains escort strength elsewhereNotable Point
  34. Egret Class: The First Class to lose as ship to a guided missile - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 1
    14:26HMS Pelican's long war of coastal escorts and U-boat huntingChapter
  35. Egret Class: The First Class to lose as ship to a guided missile - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 1
    21:42Convoy SL 97: escorts held the line until reinforcements arrivedNotable Point
  36. Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?
    1:59:57If America concentrates on Japan before GermanyQ&A
  37. HMS Renown, the RN's most Underated Capital Ship of WWII?; Key Ship Series 3, Ship 8
    39:15Radar, Arctic convoy cover, and Operation TorchChapter
  38. USS Texas: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 2
    43:08Atlantic convoy deterrence and Operation TorchChapter
  39. USS Texas: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 2
    47:01Eisenhower's broadcast and Walter Cronkite's news raceNotable Point
  40. Bruships 111: Random Books of History
    1:03:16French naval influence before Operation TorchQ&A
  41. Battle of San Nicolas(1811): Revolutionary Battles Part 2/2
    13:44Captured shipping and wartime transport capacityNotable Point
  42. USS Wichita(CA-45); The Greatest Treaty 8in Cruiser
    38:22Wichita at Casablanca in Operation TorchNotable Point
  43. Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response
    38:44Why Safi's concrete coastal battery looked more dangerousNotable Point
  44. French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video
    0:54How a loyal French fleet reshapes Allied strategyQ&A
  45. French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video
    8:24A French battle fleet in the Indian OceanQ&A
  46. Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers
    30:20Philadelphia supports the Safi landings in Operation TorchChapter
  47. Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations
    1:58:16Biter, Avenger, and Dasher in British serviceChapter
  48. If the French Navy Fought on in 1940: Vive La France
    13:29French bases remove Allied campaigns and commitmentsNotable Point
  49. If the French Navy Fought on in 1940: Vive La France
    58:28Allied France rewrites Atlantic convoy routingChapter
  50. Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?
    1:00:54Scenario one: the navy evacuates and fights onChapter
  51. Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?
    1:21:02French North Africa surrounds LibyaChapter
  52. Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?
    2:10:49French ports remove the D-Day problemNotable Point
  53. Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-42
    16:33Why the French fleet could not respond better to Operation TorchQ&A
  54. Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))
    54:57Cunningham carried the cost of a thinning command poolChapter
  55. Suffren Class: Mon croiseur de 1ère classe de la Marine Nationale préféré (Long Patrol)
    38:09Colbert, the Graf Spee cordon, and the road to ToulonChapter
  56. 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)
    30:37A visual overview of Second World War naval battlesChapter
  57. Cutting through some Cutters of the US Coast Guard (Long Patrol)
    22:01Lulworth's unusually broad anti-submarine recordNotable Point
  58. Bruships 69: The Decider
    49:35Norway instead of TorchQ&A
  59. Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"
    2:32:45Eskimo's repeated damage and multi-theater serviceNotable Point
  60. Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...
    36:18How Operation Torch temporarily thinned Atlantic convoy escortsQ&A
  61. Roberts Class - Naval Fire Support of the WWI (WWII) Western Front: Long Patrol Part 8
    13:36A broad hull built to absorb damageChapter
  62. Roberts Class - Naval Fire Support of the WWI (WWII) Western Front: Long Patrol Part 8
    25:06Timing sent Roberts and Abercrombie to different campaignsNotable Point
  63. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    2:46:50Operation Torch and the warning Dönitz missedChapter
  64. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    2:49:32Why Vichy resistance does not excuse the Torch failureQ&A
  65. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    2:51:18Germany did have long-range Atlantic reconnaissanceQ&A
  66. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    2:53:52Dönitz had reports but did not read the Torch patternNotable Point
  67. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    2:58:59Could U-boats report that escorts were disappearing?Q&A
  68. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz
    38:52Operation Torch and the cost of a narrow focusChapter
  69. Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/7
    23:57Escort pool and Operation TorchNotable Point
  70. Four Random Books Episode 36: No Good Choices
    9:53Why commandos struggled in field combatChapter
  71. Four Random Books Episode 36: No Good Choices
    14:23Operation Torch's harbor coups de mainNotable Point
  72. Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces
    2:05:24Frederick Peters returns to war for special serviceChapter
  73. Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces
    2:10:06Peters drives HMS Walney into Oran harborChapter
  74. Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces
    2:13:57Operation Terminal's parallel harbor assaultNotable Point
  75. Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces
    2:42:21The American disguise used at OranNotable Point
  76. Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation
    2:42:22Why US Marines island-hopped while the Army prepared for NormandyQ&A
  77. Lend Lease Long Patrol: P3/5 Lend Lease from the British Perspective
    26:24How Britain sustained American forces overseasChapter
  78. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 3 Trinidad to Bermuda
    17:18Jamaica moves from Operation Torch back to Arctic coverNotable Point
  79. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 3 Trinidad to Bermuda
    42:30Bermuda moves from Torch to prisoner recoveryChapter
  80. Crown Colony Class Cruisers
    2:40:18HMS Bermuda from Operation Torch to NATO exercisesChapter
  81. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 6: 1930s Aircraft Carriers of the Big 3
    7:38USS Ranger tests the small purpose-built carrierChapter
  82. Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 1920
    2:16:32RMS Scythia's long service from liner to troopshipChapter
  83. An Introduction to Operation Menace part 1 of 2
    16:27Britain’s September 1940 strategic aimsChapter
  84. An Introduction to Operation Menace part 1 of 2
    18:54Why Dakar mattered to Free FranceNotable Point
  85. Battle of Atlantic: An Introduction to The Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P1/3
    5:19Operation Torch as a convoy-system achievementNotable Point
  86. BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest Part 2 of 2
    35:27Amphibious headlines and continuous interdictionNotable Point
  87. An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 3 Frigates
    5:50Operation Paukenschlag and the shortage of escortsNotable Point
  88. An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 1 Corvettes...
    4:01The Atlantic as the war's supply theatreChapter
  89. An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 1 Corvettes...
    10:48Convoy size and Germany's early torpedo problemNotable Point
  90. An Introduction to Operation Ironclad: May 1942 Invasion of Madagascar
    3:35Why Madagascar mattered to Allied sea lanesChapter
  91. An Introduction to Operation Ironclad: May 1942 Invasion of Madagascar
    31:22Ironclad protected the timetable for Operation TorchChapter
  92. Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war
    1:39:40Depth charging fish shoals after Operation TorchNotable Point
  93. An Introduction to Falklands Command
    29:26Suppression and risk are inseparable from amphibious assaultNotable Point
  94. A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(iv)
    5:33Bulolo and the headquarters ships across theatersNotable Point