Raff’s Tunisian Task Force

Early Allied Military Cooperation in North Africa, 1942–43

General Welvert pins the Legion d’Honneur on Colonel Edson D. Raff in North Africa, 1942. (Wikipedia)General Welvert pins the Legion d’Honneur on Colonel Edson D. Raff in North Africa, 1942. (Wikipedia)

Edson Raff’s Tunisian Task Force embodied all the elements of the haphazard, slapdash Allied effort in North Africa during World War II: An unlikely team of allies endowed with the pluck, eagerness, and resilience required to excel in adverse circumstances.

Published on Military History Online on July 9, 2022. Read here.



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July 9, 2022

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