Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Darlan yana cikin Algiers lokacin da Allies suka mamaye Faransa ta Arewacin Afirka
a watan Nuwamba na shekara ta 1942. Kwamandan Allied Dwight D. Eisenhower ya kulla yarjejeniya mai rikitarwa tare da Darlan, yana gane shi a matsayin Babban Kwamishinan Faransa don Arewa da Yammacin Afirka. A sakamakon haka, Darlan ya umarci dukkan sojojin Faransa a Arewacin Afirka su daina tsayayya da haɗin gwiwa tare da Allies. Kasa da watanni biyu bayan haka, a ranar 24 ga Disamba, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, dan shekaru 20 mai mulkin mallaka da anti-Vichyiste, ya kashe Darlan.