Whakakīhia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te Rōpū Tuatoru, i raro i te mana o te Pirimia a Jonathan W. Anderson, i muri i te whakapau i nga marama whakangungu i te United States i muri i te whakaeke a Japan ki Pearl Harbor, i kite tuatahi i te pakanga i te pakanga hei waahanga o te Western Task Force i Operation Torch, te Allied
Te whakaekenga o Awherika ki te Raki, ka taunga ki Fedala i te 8 o Noema 1942, ka mau ki te haurua o French Morocco. I noho tonu te wehenga ki reira mo nga marama e whai ake nei, no reira kaore i uru ki te pakanga o Tunisia, i mutu i te Mei 1943 me te tuku tata ki te 250,000 hoia Axis i riro i nga herehere o te pakanga (POWs). I a ia i reira, ko tetahi roopu o te 30th Infantry Regiment i mahi hei kaitiaki haumaru i te Huihuinga o Casablanca i waenganui o Hanuere 1943. I te mutunga o Hui-tanguru ka wehe atu a Major General Anderson i te wehenga ka whakakapihia e Major General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., nana nei i whakatakoto he punaha whakangungu pakeke me te whakarite kia taea e nga rangatira katoa o te wehenga te haere i te rima maero i roto i te haora kotahi, me te wha maero i te haora i muri mai. I huaina e nga hoia ko "te Truscott Trot". I tiimata te wehenga ki te whakangungu kaha ki nga mahi taunga whenua.