American Forces

Task Force 34 (Western Naval Task Force)
  • RAdm H.K. Hewitt
  • MGen George S. Patton Jr., USA
    Position: Commander of Embarking Western Task Force, US Army.

TG 34.1 Covering Group

  • RAdm Robert C. Giffen
  • BB 59 Massachusetts
    Commanding officer: Capt F.E.M. Whiting
  • CA 45 Wichita
    Commanding officer: Capt F.S. Low
  • CA 37 Tuscaloosa
    Commanding officer: Capt N.C. Gillette

Destroyer Squadron 8

Screen
  • Capt D.P. Moon
  • DD 419 Wainwright
    Commanding officer: LCdr R.H. Gibbs
  • DD 402 Mayrant
    Commanding officer: LCdr E.K. Walker
  • DD 404 Rhind
    Commanding officer: Cdr H.T. Read
  • DD 447 Jenkins
    Commanding officer: LCdr H.F. Miller

Auxiliary

  • AO 30 Chemung
    Commanding officer: Capt. J.J. Twomey

TG 34.8 Northern Attack Group

Mehedia/Port Lyatuey
  • RAdm Robert C. Giffen

Embarked Army Forces

  • 9099 men, 65 M-3 Stuart light tanks
    • 60th Infantry RCT
    • 1st Btn, 66th Armored Rgt
    • 1st Btn, 540th Engineers

Transport Division 5

  • Capt Augustine H. Gray
  • AP 30 Allen
    Commanding officer: Capt P.A. Stevens
  • AP 51 Penn
    Commanding officer: Capt Charles Allen
  • AP 57 Clymer
    Commanding officer: Capt A.T. Moen
  • AP 72 Anthony
    Commanding officer: Capt Henry Hartley
  • AP 70 Nightingale
    Commanding officer: Capt E.D. Graves
  • AP 76 Arundel
    Commanding officer: Capt L.Y. Mason
  • AK 21 Electra
    Commanding officer: Cdr J.J. Hughes
  • AK 25 Algorab
    Commanding officer: Cdr J.R. Lannom

Auxiliaries

  • AO 36 Kennebec
    Commanding officer: Cdr S.S. Reynolds
  • AVP 10 Barnegat
    Commanding officer: Cdr J.A. Briggs
  • AM 55 Raven
    Commanding officer: LCdr C.G. Rucker
  • AM 56 Osprey
    Commanding officer: LCdr C.L. Blackwell
  • S/S Contessa
    Commanding officer: Master William H. John

Auxiliaries Escort

  • DD 199 Dallas
    Commanding officer: LCdr R. Brodie
    Notes: As APD.
  • DD 430 Eberle
    Commanding officer: LCdr K.F. Poehlmann

Transport Escort/Fire Support

  • BB 35 Texas
    Commanding officer: Capt Roy Pfaff
  • CL 42 Savannah
    Commanding officer: Capt L.S. Fiske
Destroyer Squadron 11
Screen
  • Cdr D.L.Madeira
  • DD 418 Roe
    Commanding officer: LCdr R.L. Nolan
  • DD 429 Livermore
    Commanding officer: Cdr Vernon Huber
  • DD 432 Kearny
    Commanding officer: Cdr A.H. Oswald
  • DD 440 Ericsson
    Commanding officer: LCdr C.M. Jensen
  • DD 604 Parker
    Commanding officer: LCdr J.W. Bays

Air Group

  • CVE 26 Sangamon
    Commanding officer: Capt C.W. Wieber
    • VGS-26
      Notes: Nine TBF, nine SBD.
    • VGF-26
      Notes: Twelve F4F.
  • CVE 28 Chenango
    Commanding officer: Capt Ben Wyatt
    Notes: Ferrying 76 USAAF P-40F.
Destroyer Squadron 19
Screen
  • Capt Charles Wellborn
  • DD 455 Hambleton
    Commanding officer: Cdr Forrest Close
  • DD 458 Macomb
    Commanding officer: Cdr W.H. Duvall

TG 34.9 Center Attack Group

Casablanca
  • Capt Robert Emmet

Embarked Army Forces

  • 18,783 men, 79 M-3 Stuart light tanks
    Commanding officer: MGen J.W. Anderson, USA
    • 3rd Infantry Division
      • 7th Infantry RCT
      • 15th Infantry RCT
      • 30th Infantry RCT
    • 1st Btn, 67th Armored Regt

Transport Division 3

  • Capt. R.G. Coman
  • AP 25 Wood (force flagship)(force flagship)
    Commanding officer: Cdr M. O'Neill, USCG
    Notes: Flagship of TG 34.9.
  • AP 60 Jefferson
    Commanding officer: Capt C. Gulbranson
  • AP 58 Carroll
    Commanding officer: Cdr H. Biesemeier
  • AP 26 Dickman
    Commanding officer: Cdr C.W. Harwood, USCG
  • AP 15 Biddle
    Commanding officer: Cdr P.E. Glutting
  • AP 50 Hewes
    Commanding officer: Capt R.M. Smith
  • AP 42 Bliss
    Commanding officer: Capt G.C. Schetky
  • AP 52 Rutledge
    Commanding officer: Capt M.W. Hutchinson
  • AP 43 Scott
    Commanding officer: Capt H.J. Wright

Transport Division 9

  • Capt W.M. Quigley
  • AP 66 Ancon
    Commanding officer: Capt P.L. Mather
  • AP 69 Stanton
    Commanding officer: Capt R.A. Dierdorff
  • AP 77 Thurston
    Commanding officer: Capt J.E. Hurff
  • AK 19 Procyon
    Commanding officer: Cdr L.P.Padgett
  • AK 56 Oberon
    Commanding officer: Cdr Ion Pursell
  • AK 18 Arcturus
    Commanding officer: Cdr J.R. McKinney

Destroyer Squadron 13

Transport screen
  • Capt John Heffernan
  • DD 453 Bristol
    Commanding officer: Cdr J.A. Glick
  • DD 437 Woolsey
    Commanding officer: Cdr B.L.Austin
  • DD 439 Edison
    Commanding officer: LCdr W.R. Headen
  • DD 641 Tillman
    Commanding officer: Cdr F.D. McCorkle
  • DD 600 Boyle
    Commanding officer: LCdr E.S. Karpe
  • DD 405 Rowan
    Commanding officer: LCdr R.S. Ford

Fire Support Group

  • Capt John Heffernan
  • CA 31 Augusta (fleet flagship)(fleet flagship)
    Commanding officer: Capt Gordon Hutchins
    Notes: Flagship of Task Force 34.
  • CL 40 Brooklyn
    Commanding officer: Capt F.C. Denebrink
Destroyer Squadron 26
  • Cdr E.R. Durgin
  • DD 441 Wilkes
    Commanding officer: LCdr J.B. McLean
  • DD 443 Swanson
    Commanding officer: Cdr LM Markham
  • DD 428 Ludlow
    Commanding officer: LCdr L.W. Creighton
  • DD 603 Murphy
    Commanding officer: LCdr L.W. Bailey

Mine Squadron 7

  • Cdr A.G. Cook
  • DMS 5 Palmer
    Commanding officer: LCdr J.W. Cooper
  • DMS 6 Hogan
    Commanding officer: LCdr U.S.G. Sharp
  • DMS 8 Stansbury
    Commanding officer: LCdr J.B. Maher
  • CM 5 Terror
    Commanding officer: Cdr H.W. Fitch
  • CM 10 Miantonomah
    Commanding officer: LCdr R.D. Edwards
  • AM 57 Auk
    Commanding officer: LCdr W.D. Ryan, USNR

Auxiliary

  • AO 38 Winooski
    Commanding officer: Cdr J.E. Murphy

Air Group

  • RAdm Ernest McWhorter
  • CV 4 Ranger (flagship)(flagship)
    Commanding officer: Capt C.T. Durgin
    • VF-9
      Notes: Twenty-seven F4F-4.
    • VF-41
      Notes: Twenty-seven F4F-4.
    • VS-41
      Notes: Eighteen SBD-3, one TBF.
  • CVE 27 Suwanee
    Commanding officer: Capt J.J. Clark
    • VGF-27/28/30
      Notes: Twenty-nine F4F-4.
    • VGS 27
      Notes: Nine TBF.
Screen
  • CL 35 Cleveland
    Commanding officer: Capt E.W. Burrough
Destroyer Squadron 10
  • Capt J.L. Holloway
  • DD 454 Ellyson
    Commanding officer: Cdr J.B. Rooney
  • DD 461 Forrest
    Commanding officer: LCdr M. Van Metre
  • DD 462 Fitch
    Commanding officer: LCdr Henry Crommelin
  • DD 463 Corry
    Commanding officer: LCdr E.C. Burchett
  • DD 464 Hobson
    Commanding officer: LCdr R.N. McFarlane

TG 34.10 Southern Atttack Group

Safi
  • RAdm Lyal Davidson

Embarked Army Forces

  • 6,423 men, 54 M-4 Sherman medium and 54 M-3 Stuart light tanks
    Commanding officer: MGen Ernest Harmon, USA
    • 47th Infantry RCT
    • 67th Armored Rgt
      • 2nd Btn.
      • 3rd Btn.

Transports

  • Capt Wallace B. Phillips
  • AP 8 Harris
    Commanding officer: Capt O.M. Forster
  • AP 65 Calvert
    Commanding officer: Capt J.W. Whitfield
  • AP 67 Dix
    Commanding officer: Cdr L.B. Schulten
  • AP 71 Lyon
    Commanding officer: Capt M.J. Gillan
  • AP 49 Lakehurst
    Commanding officer: Cdr H.J. McNulty
    Notes: Carrying medium tanks.
  • AK 55 Titania
    Commanding officer: Cdr V.C. Barringer
  • DD 155 Cole
    Commanding officer: LCdr G.G. Palmer
    Notes: Acting as APD.
  • DD 153 Bernadou
    Commanding officer: LCdr R.E. Braddy
    Notes: acting as APD.

Destroyer Division 30

Transport Screen
  • Cdr H.C. Robison
  • DD 632 Cowie
    Commanding officer: LCdr J.C. Whiting
  • DD 490 Quick
    Commanding officer: LCdr R.B. Nickerson
  • DD 634 Doran
    Commanding officer: LCdr H.W. Gordon

Minecraft/Auxiliaries

  • CM 9 Monadnock
    Commanding officer: Cdr F.O. Goldsmith
  • DMS 7 Howard
    Commanding officer: LCdr C.J. Zondorak
  • DMS 18 Hamilton
    Commanding officer: LCdr R.R. Sampson
  • AO 35 Housatonic
    Commanding officer: Cdr A.R. Boileau
  • AO 37 Merrimack
    Commanding officer: Capt W.E. Hilbert
  • AT 66 Cherokee
    Commanding officer: Lt J.H. Lawson

Fire Support Group/Escort

  • BB 34 New York
    Commanding officer: Capt Scott Umsted
  • CL 41 Philadelphia (force flagship)(force flagship)
    Commanding officer: Capt Paul Hendren
Destroyer Squadron 15
  • Capt C.C. Hartman
  • DD 489 Mervine
    Commanding officer: LCdr S.D. Willingham
  • DD 633 Knight
    Commanding officer: LCdr R.B. Levin
  • DD 640 Beatty
    Commanding officer: LCdr F.C. Stelter

Air Group

  • CVE 29 Santee
    Commanding officer: Capt W.D. Sample
    • VGF-29
      Commanding officer: 14 F4F-4
    • VGS-29
      Commanding officer: 8 TBF, 9 SBD
Screen
  • DD 456 Rodman
    Commanding officer: Capt W.G. Michelet
  • DD 457 Emmons
    Commanding officer: LCdr H.M. Heming

Submarines

  • SS 235 Shad
    Commanding officer: LCdr E.J. MacGregor
    Notes: Off Port Lyatuey.
  • SS 253 Gunnel
    Commanding officer: LCdr J.S. McCain Jr.
    Notes: Off Casablanca.
  • SS 233 Herring
    Commanding officer: LCdr R.W. Johnson
    Notes: Off Casablanca.
  • SS 220 Barb
    Commanding officer: LCdr J.R. Waterman
    Notes: Off Safi.

French Forces

  • VAdm Michelier
    Position: C-in-C (ashore)

Coastal Artillery

Mehedia Area

  • Kasba Battery
    Notes: Six 5.5 inch guns (18,000 yards range.)

Fedhala Area

  • Point Blondin Battery
    Notes: Four 5.5 inch guns (18,000 yards range.)

Casablanca Area

  • BB Jean Bart
    Notes: Four 15 inch (moored) (approx 30,000 yards range.)
  • El Hank Battery
    Notes: Four 7.9 inch guns (approx. 22,000 yards range); four 5.5 inch guns (18,000 yards range.)

Safi Area

  • Railleuse Battery
    Notes: Six 5 inch guns (approx 14,000 yards range.)
  • Mobile Battery
    Notes: Four 6 inch guns (approx 18,000 yards range.)

Surface Squadron

  • RAdm Lafond in Milan
  • CL Primauguet (sunk)(sunk)
  • DL Milan (sunk)(sunk)
    Commanding officer: Cdr Costet
  • DL Albatros (sunk)(sunk)
    Commanding officer: Cdr Peries
  • DD L'Alcyon
    Commanding officer: LCdr Bragelongue
  • DD Brestois (sunk)(sunk)
    Commanding officer: Cdr Mariani
  • DD Boulonnais (sunk)(sunk)
    Commanding officer: LCdr Preneuf
  • DD Fougueux (sunk)(sunk)
    Commanding officer: LCdr Sticca
  • DD Frondeur (sunk)(sunk)
    Commanding officer: Cdr Begouen-Demeaux
  • DD Tempête
  • DD Simoun

Submarine Squadron

  • SS Amphitrite (sunk)(sunk)
  • SS Oréade (sunk)(sunk)
  • SS La Psyché (sunk)(sunk)
  • SS Méduse (sunk)(sunk)
  • SS Amazone
  • SS Orphée
  • SS Le Tonnant
  • SS Antiope
  • SS Sidi Ferruch (sunk)(sunk)
  • SS Le Conquérant (sunk)(sunk)
  • SS La Sybille

Patrol/Escort Squadron

  • Grandiere
    Notes: Sloop.
  • Gracieuse
    Notes: AM.
  • Delage
    Notes: AM.
  • Victoria
    Notes: PC.
  • W-43
    Notes: PC.

Notes

Units that were beached are also marked above as "sunk".

Sources

Information drawn mainly from:

  • History of US Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. II: Operations in North African Waters, Samuel Eliot Morison