[Traianus]

After the "day that will live in infamy" FDR's  first land attack took place in Morocco and Algeria, then French colonies,  in alliance with the British.

An HISTORICAL DETAIL... At that TIME FRANCE GOVT WAS THAT of VICHY
(PRO NAZI) and in NORTH AFRICA AFTER EL ALAMEIN ROMMEL WAS in TUNIS....
SO....Back to the DRAWING BOARD for the AUTHOR.....

[RexBeach]

Yeah, I spotted that immediately. Vichy was allied with the Nazis.

American landing forces, that were part of Operation Torch, were not certain if French forces in north Africa would fight or surrender, and come over to the Allied side.

Once securing that beach head in north Africa, the American Allied forces would then turn east to confront the Afrika Corps while the British 8th Army moved against the Nazis from the east.

The author makes a bad comparison here.

The comparison is not a good one.