The USS San Jacinto intercepts the British ship RMS Trent and removes two Confederate diplomats en route to Europe to seek military assistance from Great Britain and France.
Allied forces launch Operation TORCH against Vichy French-controlled North Africa. Soviet Premier Josef Stalin had pleaded with President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to open up a second front in the Western Theater, and the operation allowed the Allies to retake North Africa.
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