The Mighty Eighth - Tuesday, 20 October 1942

Tuesday 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.