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Roosevelt identified the European theatre as his country's priority. Their first joint operation with the British was an amphibious invasion of French North Africa, designed to relieve pressure on their new Soviet allies, eliminate the threat of the French navy joining the Germans, and to shore up the vulnerability of British imperial possessions and trade routes through the Mediterranean.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOperation \u003ci\u003eTorch\u003c\/i\u003e was the largest and most complex amphibious invasion of its time. 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