European leaders are under mounting pressure to change the way they patrol the Mediterranean, after the latest tragedy to strike migrants crossing from Africa.
Three separate task forces were launched, with General George Patton taking command of 35,000 men of the Western Task Force, sailing for Casablanca from Virginia.
77 Children and over 200 adults tragically drowned during one such crossing, and as a result, the British government immediately stopped the overseas evacuation scheme.