Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te parekura tuatahi o te pakanga a "Gunnel" (19 Oketopa <unk> 7 Tihema 1942) i hipoki i te haerenga mai i te United States ki te United Kingdom, i te wa i uru ai ia ki
Operation "Torch", te whakaekenga a te Allied o Awherika ki te Raki. Ko tetahi o nga kaipuke moana e ono i tohaina ki a Admiral Henry K. Hewitt's Western Naval Task Force, "Gunnel" i mohio ki Fedhala 6 Whiringa-a-rangi 1942, 2 ra i mua o te whakaekenga, ana i te ra D (8 Whiringa-a-rangi) i hanga nga tohu infrared hei arahi i te kaipuke e tata ana ki nga papa. I tutuki pai nga miihana, ka wehe te kaipuke o raro ki Rosneath, Scotland, i te 7 o Tihema ki te whakamutu i tana parekura tuatahi. "I te huarahi" ki te kaainga, ka pakaru nga miihini taraiwa o ona miihini HOR, ka akiaki ia ki te whakaoti i te whakamutunga i runga i tana diesel awhina, ka arahi ki te whakahou nui i Portsmouth Naval Shipyard i Kittery, Maine.