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A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945. Volume 3: Tunisia and the End in Africa, November 1942-1943

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The third volume in this series returns to November 1942 to give an explanation for 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 succeed in northern Tunisia before the Germans and Italians could get there to forestall the potential 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 keep an eye on 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 enroll in 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 some of the focal turning points of World War II, yet this is ceaselessly overlooked by historians. As before, the air-sea activities, the reconnaissance flights and the growing day and night bomber offensives form a major a 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 throughout 1943, that allows you to be dealt with in Volume 4.
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