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: * A force under Rear-Admiral Hewitt that landed US Army units during the Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of French North Africa in 1942 * A force under Rear-Admiral Hewitt that landed US Army units during the

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in 1943 * A force under Admiral Hewitt that landed the US Fifth Army during the

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in 1943 * A force under Admiral

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that landed the US First Army during the invasion of Normandy in 1944 * A force under Admiral Hewitt that landed the US Army during the Operation Dragoon, the Allied invasion of Southern France in 1944.

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