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. 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...