Operation Torch Puns

I know US has dealt with and even domesticated the Western American dune worm but how did Allied command deal with their larger and territorial North African cousins? What measures were taken on the divisional level and were there any formal disciplinary charges levels for troops trying to pull a Hannibal when they mounted 50 cals on an older one?

I have read that in the Algerian landings, a few early British LSTs were used. LSTs, Landing Ships, Tank, were typically 4-5,000 ton ocean going vessels with front ramps for unloading heavy vehicles directly onto a beach.

The Western task force apparently didn't have any LSTs. But accounts I have read mention tank battles fought before the French surrender. How did the U.S. navy get those tanks ashore? Were they all landed at piers or what?

I am particularly interested in the Port Lyautey landings. The tank skirmish in this area seems to have only involved Stuart light tanks, not Shermans. Did the navy have a landing craft that could carry a Stuart but not the heavier Sherman?

My main source for what I know about Torch is Atkinson's An Army at Dawn, but it was a library book I read maybe a year ago, and don't have in front of me now.

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To be honest, of all I’ve read and studied on the Second World War; the campaign in North Africa is a portion of the war I’ve admittedly left fairly untouched, so in that regard I’m a novice on this specific subject.

Anyways, from what I understand thus far in my re-reading of Rick Atkinson’s book, ‘An Army at Dawn’; the Allies were trying to find their footing in this new war. It seems to me that North Africa played out more like a training ground for Allied tactics, military strategy as well as diplomatic do’s and don’ts within the growing coalition moving forward toward the rest of the war to come, especially with the French.

But militarily, it almost seems like a bumbling mess of infantry and mechanized movements in battle. Where as later in the war, in Europe, those same infantry and mechanized combat moments seemed so much cleaner and well organized.

Obviously, the invasion of North Africa and the fight for France are countless trial and error battles over a year+ apart from one another, so I guess that question answers itself.

But that being said, how did the Allies manage seemingly swift victories in North Africa, against a far better trained and battle hardened force that had been slugging it out with the British for 2 years at that point; while being so wobbly on their feet?