Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - "Gunnel" na farko na yakin (19 Oktoba <unk> 7 Disamba 1942) ya rufe wani sashi daga Amurka zuwa Birtaniya, lokacin da ta shiga cikin Operation "Torch"
, mamayewar Allied na Arewacin Afirka. Daya daga cikin jiragen ruwa shida da aka sanya wa Admiral Henry K. Hewitt na Yammacin Naval Task Force, "Gunnel" ya yi bincike daga Fedhala 6 ga Nuwamba 1942, kwana 2 kafin mamayewa, kuma a ranar D (8 Nuwamba) ya yi siginar infrared don jagorantar rundunar da ke gabatowa zuwa ga bakin teku. Ayyukan da aka yi da kyau, jirgin ruwan ya tashi zuwa Rosneath, Scotland, ranar 7 ga watan Disamba don kawo karshen aikinta na farko. "A kan hanyar" gida, motar motar ta HOR ta kasa, ta tilasta ta ta kammala karshe a kan mataimakin diesel, wanda ya haifar da babban gyare-gyare a Portsmouth Naval Shipyard a Kittery, Maine.