 Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - VaAllies vakapinda muFrench North Africa munaNovember 1942, vachiwana kukurumidza kuzvipira kwemauto emuno eVichy French. Kuzviisa ikoko kwakarongwa kupfurikidza nechibvumirano pakati paGeneral Dwight D. Eisenhower, mutungamiriri mukuru wokupinda kweAllied muNorth Africa, naVichy Admiral François Darlan. Kubatira pamwe naDarlan kwakabvumira maAllies kukurumidza kuwana kudzora kwechikamu chikuru cheNorth Africa, asi kwakarambawo mutungamiri weFree French Charles de Gaulle nevamwe vanopikisa hurumende yeVichy. Darlan akaurayiwa muna December 1942, nepo Vichy France yakatyora ukama neUnited States uye yakakumbira kuti mauto eGermany adzivise maAllies kuwana kutonga kweFrance Tunisia. Zvakaitika kuna de Gaulle, Darlan, uye mumwe mutungamiri weFrance, Henri Giraud, zvakagutsa Roosevelt nezvokudiwa kwokudzivisa kuva pedyo zvikuru neboka ripi neripi reFrance nokuda kwehondo yasara. Muhondo YokuTunisiaPakutanga, Eisenhower akatarisana nematambudziko makuru mukutungamira simba rake risina ruzivo kuti ribudirire, asi mauto eAllied akazopedzisira awana simba. Varwi veAxis 250 000 vakapa mapfumo pasi muna May 1943, vachigumisa Hondo yokuNorth Africa. 