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A A HISTORY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN AIR WAR, 1940-1945 - Volume Four: Sicily and Italy to the fall of Rome 14 May, 1943 - 5 June, 1944 (Hardcover)
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A A HISTORY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN AIR WAR, 1940-1945 - Volume Four: Sicily and Italy to the fall of Rome 14 May, 1943 - 5 June, 1944 (Hardcover)
Series: A HISTORY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN AIR WAR, 1940-1945, 4
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The fourth volume in this momentous series commences with the
attacks on the Italian island fortress of Pantellaria which led to
its surrender and occupation achieved almost by air attack alone.
The account continues with the ultimately successful, but at times
very hard fought, invasions of Sicily and southern Italy as
burgeoning Allied air power, now with full US involvement,
increasingly dominated the skies overhead. The successive
occupations of Sardinia and Corsica are also covered in detail.
This volume, then, is essentially the story of the tactical air
forces up to the point when Rome was occupied, just at the same
time as the Normandy landings were occurring in north-west France.
In its pages are found what can justifiably be considered the story
of `the soldiers' air force'. Frequently overlooked by more
immediate newsworthy events elsewhere, their struggle was often of
an equally Homeric nature. With regards to the long-range tactical
role of the Allied heavy bombers, only the period from May to
October is examined herein, while they remained based in North
Africa. Thus the period from November 1943 when the US 15th Air
Force was formed to pursue the strategic air offensive against the
Reich, together with the RAF's 205 Group of night bombers, will be
covered in a future (sixth) volume. Volume Five will deal with the
rest of the tactical war in Italy and Greece, over the Adriatic and
Aegean, and with the entry into the South of France to join forces
advancing southwards from Normandy.
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