U of A - Today

By Staff Reports
Arizona Daily Wildcat
November 8, 1996

Fact of the Day

On this day in 1942, the United States and its European allies began their first offensive against Nazi Germany by invading Northern Africa. The North African campaign would eventually culminate in the invasion of Italy the following September.

Source: The 1991 World Almanac and Book of Facts page 446


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