Battleship Massachusetts Lights up Casablanca: Operation Torch

In this episode of Battle Stars, while technically on her shake-down cruise, USS Massachusetts (BB-59), not only had the unique old-world experience of fighting ships and fortresses, but also the more modern thrill of surviving submarine and aircraft attack during Operation Torch and the attack on Casablanca.

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Credits: US National Archives, US Naval Institute, Naval History & Heritage Command, World of Warships Naval Legends

Sources:
1. Vincent P. O’Hara, TORCH: North Africa and the Allied Path to Victory (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2015).
2. Robert J. Cressman, USS Ranger: The Navy’s First Flattop from Keel to Mast, 1934-1946 (Washington, DC: Brassey’s, Inc., 2003).
3. Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. II, Operations in North African Waters, October 1942—June 1943 (Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1947; reprinted Naval Institute Press 2010).

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