ALLIES:
American
- Carrier-Based Fighters
- Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat
- Carrier-Based Bombers
- Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless
- Grumman TBF-1 Avenger
- Carrier-Based Reconnaissance
- Curtiss SOC Seagull
- Piper Cub L-4
- Vought OS2U-3 Kingfisher
- Land-Based Fighters
- Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vb1
- Land-Based Troop Insertion
- Douglas C-47 Dakota
Note: There were several more types of American planes assigned to the invasion, but they did not see combat before the Vichy French surrendered.
British
- Carrier-Based Fighters
- Grumman Martlet
- Hawker Sea Hurricane
- Supermarine Seafire
- Carrier-Based Bombers
- Fairey Albacore
- Carrier-Based Reconnaissance
- Fairey Fulmar
- Land-Based Fighters
- Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIC*
- Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vb*
- Land-Based Reconnaissance
- Lockheed Hudson
- Supermarine Spitfire PR
* These fighters flew in from Gibraltar to land on captured Vichy French airfields and immediately began combat operations.
Note: The British naval planes that participated in Operation TORCH's invasion of Algeria were painted with American insignia in the hope that it would make the Vichy French less likely to shoot at them. It didn't work.
AXIS:
German
- Bombers
- Heinkel He 111H
- Junkers Ju 88A
- Reconnaissance
- Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor
NEUTRAL:
Vichy French
- Fighters
- Curtiss 75A Hawk
- Dewoitine D520
- Bombers
- Douglas DB-7
- Loiré et Olivier LeO 451
- Martin 167F
- Reconnaissance
- Marcel Bloch 175
- Potez 63-11
The Vichy French were technically neutral, but they had to obey Hitler to prevent the remainder of France from being occupied by German troops, so they often collaborated with the Germans. Hitler allowed the Vichy government to maintain modest military forces, in order to defend Vichy France and the French colonies around the world. The British attacked these Vichy forces whenever it seemed necessary, starting in 1940 at Oran and Dakar, then in Syria in 1941, and Madagascar in early 1942. But Operation TORCH was the first time American forces had attacked the Vichy French. Hitler reacted to Operation TORCH by occupying Vichy France and rushing German troops into the strategically located Vichy French colony of Tunisia in northern Africa. Subsequently, most of the Vichy French military units in west Africa joined the Free French.
