Operation Torch, Allied landings in North Africa began on 8th November 1942. Able Seaman Fitzpatrick of Whiteabbey, Co. Antrim was among the first casualties.
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Able Seaman William James Joseph Fitzpatrick died on 8th November 1942 serving on H.M.S. Walney as the cutter crashed through the harbour boom at Oran, Algeria.