Fires burned more than 338,000 hectares through the province â seven and a half times the normal area charred on average over 20 years. No homes or notable structures were destroyed, but the province more than quadrupled its firefighting budget, spending $266 million.
German armies deep in Russian territory. Thus, Operation TORCH was conceived and. approved. In addition to building an invasion force capable of traveling long distances to reach. objectives in North Africa, the Allies had to cope with political complications.
An attack on French North Africa was proposed instead, which would clear the Axis powers from North Africa, improve naval control of the Mediterranean Sea, and prepare for an invasion of Southern Europe in 1943.merican President Franklin D. Roosevelt suspected the African operation would rule out an invasion of Europe in 1943 but agreed to support British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.