Desert Comanches P-40 combat over North Africa

The British simply referred to it as “the blue”—the vast barren deserts of North Africa that spanned Egypt, Libya and Tunisia.

COL. WAYNE E. “FOX” RHYNARD, JAMES P. BUSHA

Since the beginning of the war, the British, along with their commonwealth allies, fought the Italian Army, the biting sand flies, the blistering heat and cold, damp nights along with choking sandstorms as their front-lines seesawed back and forth in “the blue.” Eventually, the British pushed Mussolini’s troops to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, with triumph in their grasp. But their victory was short lived because in early 1941, Gen. Erwin Rommel—the famed Desert Fox of the Afrika Korps—took command of the Axis force and in less than 18 months took back everything the British had gained. Now it was the British and their beleaguered Desert Air Force that had their backs against the pyramid walls of Egypt. If they couldn’t hold there, the oil wells of Iran and…

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