Western Task Force

Early on the morning of 8 November 1942 British and American forces attacked Northwest Africa. The assault operations consisted of three distinct parts. The Western Task Force, entirely American and combat loaded in the United States, struck the coast of French Morocco in the vicinity of Casablanca. The Center and Eastern Task... 

Obviously, CWS officers had a job on their hands, particularly those staff officers assigned to commands just entering combat. In North Africa Colonel Barker, chemical officer of the Western Task Force, was effective in convincing ground commanders of the worth of the... 

Blackstone Unit of Western Task Force which landed at Safi, French... 

The OECD LRTAP study established that any effective control of air pollution in Europe must include both Eastern and Western European countries. When the question of environmental protection was taken up at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in 1975, Norway therefore proposed the establishment of a European-wide monitoring programme for air pollutants. The proposal was adopted, and preparatory work was started within the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) in Geneva. In 1976 a task force was established to develop a detailed plan for the future program. 

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