WWII in North Africa

A Moment of Silence for… Bibliography with Notes plus Bonus Content Holocaust Encyclopedia. Allied Military Operations in North Africa.https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/allied-military-operations-in-north-africa#:~:text=During%20the%20entire%20North%20African,alone%20totaled%20more%20than%2018%2C500 “During the entire North African campaign, the Germans and Italians suffered 620,000 casualties, while the British Commonwealth lost 220,000 men. American casualties in Tunisia alone totaled more than 18,500.” Shores, Christopher F., and Giovanni Massimello with Continue reading

Epilogue Bibliography with Notes plus Bonus Content Braddock, David. Britain’s Desert War in Egypt and Libya, 1940-1942: ’The End of the Beginning’. Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Books, 2019. Kindle. Chapter 1 The Strategic Background to the North African Campaigns, 1940-1942 “The RAF also played a vital part in the Mediterranean at this period, chiefly by Continue reading

May-June 1941: Brevity and Battleaxe Bibliography with Notes plus Bonus Content Bickers, Richard Townshend. The Desert Air War: a gripping historical account of the RAF’s role in North Africa during World War II. UK: Lume Books, 2018. Kindle. Chapter Four “…Between 28 and 30 May, 14,500 men out of the remnants of the defeated British Continue reading

Late Arrivals Club Bibliography with Notes plus Bonus Content Delve, Ken. The Desert Air Force in WWII: Air Power in the Western Desert 1940-1942. South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Books, Ltd, 2017. Kindle. Chapter 1 Introduction “Losses…and ‘Walking Out’ (the Boomerang Club or Late Arrivals Club).” Delve, Ken. The Desert Air Force in WWII: Air Continue reading

May 1941: Lend-Lease and the P-40 Tomahawk Bibliography with Notes plus Bonus Content Guttman, Robert. CURTISS P-40 WARHAWK: ONE OF WW II’S MOST FAMOUS FIGHTERS. HISTORY NET. https://www.historynet.com/curtiss-p-40-warhawk-one-of-ww-iis-most-famous-fighters/ “By May 1941 Tomahawks were also operating in the Middle East, eventually serving in that theater with Australian and South African fighter squadrons as well as the Continue reading

April 18, 1941: Luftwaffe Bf 109 Fighters Arrive Bibliography with Notes plus Bonus Content Bickers, Richard Townshend, The Desert Air war: a gripping historical account of the RAF’s role in North Africa during World War II. UK: Lume Books, 2018. Kindle. Chapter Four “This was the day when a new predator, menacing, powerful and confident, Continue reading

Jerrycan (or Jerrican, or Jerry Can)—“an embarrassingly brilliant design” Bibliography with Notes plus Bonus Content Hanson, Jonathan. Irreducible imperfection: The flimsy. ExploringOverland.com https://www.exploringoverland.com/overland-tech-travel/2012/8/17/irreducible-imperfection-the-flimsy.html “Fortunately, an alternative presented itself when the retreating German Army began abandoning its own 20-liter containers. These were of embarrassingly brilliant design—perimeter-welded of stout steel for strength, with a three-handle configuration that Continue reading

Friend or Foe? Part 2 Bibliography with Notes plus Bonus Content Bickers, Richard Townshend. The Desert Air War: a gripping historical account of the RAF’s role in North Africa during World War II. UK: Lume Books, 2018. Kindle. “…In the confusion of air combat more than one pilot would fire at the same enemy machine Continue reading

Germany Liaison Plane: Fieseler Fi 156 Storch (Stork) Bibliography with Notes plus Bonus Content Bierman, John and Colin Smith. War Without Hate. New York: The Penguin Group, 2002, p. 69. “As usual Rommel led from the front or, to be more precise, from above the front. Many of his daylight hours were sent in his Continue reading

The “Desert Fox” Has Ears Bibliography with Notes plus Bonus Content Gorenberg, Gershom. War Of Shadows, Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East. New York: Public Affairs, Hachette Book Group, 2021. Chapter 1 EL ALAMEIN “No advance intelligence had revealed that the forward sections of Strategical Intercept Company Continue reading