Amphibious Training Bases (ATB) were built in Algeria and Tunisia to prepare for the upcoming invasions.

The American forces led by Lloyd Fredendall, seized Oran from the Vichy troops in two days.

Algeria was needed to fight the Afrika Korps, and Dakar so planes to fly from South American bases to Africa .

In the end, the negotiations gave the outcome they were looking for: ceasefire in Oran and Casablanca, the French African army would help the Allies fight the Nazis, help unload Allied cargo ships, and use of French trains to support the troops.

On 24 December 1942, pro-monarchist Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle assassinated Darlan in his headquarters, but the negotiations agreements continued.

Algerian troops served with the French Expeditionary Corps under General Alphonse Juin, during the Italian campaign of 1943 and the Allied invasion of southern France in 1944.

[15] After the port city of Dakar surrendered in November 1942, French ships at the port also joined the Allies, including: battleship Richelieu, the heavy cruiser Suffren, light cruisers Gloire, Montcalm, Georges Leygues, and a few destroyers, including cruiser-sized Le Fantasque-class destroyers.

[17][18] Amphibious Training Bases at and around Oran started in May 1943 under the reverse Lend-Lease with Free France.

At the same time, an Amphibious Training Base opened at Ténès and Béni Saf Algeria.

After the Tunisian campaign, Oran supported the operation of the Amphibious Training Bases at Bizerte, Tunis, and Ferryville in Tunisia.

[19][20] A ship's salvage unit, a naval radio station, and a fuel depot were established in Algiers, which was also the site of the headquarters of Vice Admiral H.K.

[1][21][22][23] The lessons of North Africa helped in improving the future landing and battles of World War II.

[24] Oran, Algeria with the city port and Oran's French Naval base Mers El Kebir 5 miles west of Oran, was developed into a major ship-repair base, a large supply depot, a ship's salvage unit operated at the base, naval radio station, fuel depot and a large Naval hospital.

Oran became the staging and supply base for amphibious operations in North African, Sicily, and then in Italy and France.

US Navy Seabee Construction Battalions 54th, 70th, and 120th repaired and built new base facilities at Oran and around Algeria.

The Free French Army built a large base camp and trained its troops at Oran.

Béni Safwas deployed into a supply depot and an Advanced Amphibious Training Base.

Ship LCT 33 shot down a Junkers Ju 88 bomber over the port, it crashed 15 miles from the town.

[27] Cherchell, Algeria, is port city and resort town with a lighthouse, that was converted into an Advanced Amphibious Training Base.

Casablanca was headquarters for the Morocco Sea Coast Frontier Forces, a defense command of the United States Navy.

At the end of the war, the base was part of Operation Magic Carpet to return troops home.

Green Project had round-the-clock airlift of troops in and out of Naval Air Station Port Lyautey.

Naval Air Station Port Lyautey was one of the last bases in North Africa to close in 1977.

From the Agadir airfield planes flew anti-submarine patrol from lower French Morocco and the Canary Islands.

[1] The US Navy operated a base at Fedala, (now called Mohammedia) was similar to Casablanca, though smaller.

Axis forces had land naval mines and sank ships to block the port, all the Seabees cleared.

The Free French Army built a large base camp and trained its troops at Tunis.

On December 3, 1944, the US Ship USS LST-141 was damaged when she ran aground at Bizerte, she was repaired at return to service.

A Medical Supply Depot was built at the Naval Base to support the Sicily invasion.

Flights from Pretoria, South Africa also used Dakar refueling at Robertsfield, Liberia, the Belgian Congo and Northern Rhodesia.