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A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945 - Volume Three: Tunisia and the end in Africa, November 1942 - May 1943 (Hardcover)
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A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945 - Volume Three: Tunisia and the end in Africa, November 1942 - May 1943 (Hardcover)
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The third volume in this series returns to November 1942 to explain
the background to the first major Anglo-American venture -
Operation Torch, the invasion of French North Africa. It deals with
the fratricidal combats which followed the initial landings in
Morocco and Algeria for several days. It then considers the efforts
made, unsuccessfully in the event, to reach northern Tunisia before
the Germans and Italians could get there to forestall the
possibility of an attack from the west on the rear of the Afrika
Korps forces, then beginning their retreat from El Alamein. The six
months of hard fighting which followed as the Allies built up the
strength of their joint air forces and gradually wrested control of
the skies from the Axis, are covered in detail. Then from 1 April
1943 the continuing story of the Western Desert Air Force is told
from the point at which Volume 2 ended, as it advanced from the
east to join hands with the units in the west. Now also described
are the arrivals over the front of American pilots and crew, the
P-38 Lightning, the Spitfire IX and the B-17 Flying Fortress and of
the much-feared Focke-Wulf FW 190. The aerial activities over
Tunisia became one of the focal turning points of World War II, yet
this is frequently overlooked by historians. As before, the air-sea
activities, the reconnaissance flights and the growing day and
night bomber offensives form a major part of this volume. The
mastery of the whole African coastline of the southern
Mediterranean by the Allies prepared the way for the invasions of
the European territories on the other side of this critical sea
during 1943, which will be dealt with in Volume 4.
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