As for the other cruisers, Tone and Haguro focused their fire on the escort carriers Kalinin Bay; Chōkai probably engaged White Plains and Kitkun Bay. As delivered, these carriers required modifications to conform to Royal Naval standards. The Eastern Task Force, with 23,000 British and 10,000 American troops transported by the Royal Navy from the UK, landed at three attack sites centered around Algiers the capital of French Algeria.