 These officers were willing to support the Allies but asked for a clandestine conference with a senior Allied General in Algeria.Major General Mark W. Clark—one of Eisenhower's senior commanders—was dispatched to Cherchell in Algeria aboard the British submarine and met with these Vichy French officers on 21 October 1942.With help from the Resistance, the Allies also succeeded in slipping French General Henri Giraud out of Vichy France on HMS "Seraph"—passing itself off as an American submarine—intending to offer him the post of commander in chief of French forces in North Africa after the invasion.