MASTERS OF DESERT AIR
R.A.F.’s RECORD IN AFRICA
RUGBY, Mar. 27,
How for the three historic months’ advance that drove the Axis armies in Africa from Alamein to Tripoli, a distance equal to that between Moscow and Berlin, the R.A.F. never fell out of range of the front line, nor out of fighting efficiency, is described in an Air Ministry book, “Masters of the Desert Air.” The book describes the air arm as a manifest power in its own right. It was reorganised to fight in equal partnership with the naval forces on the sea, and, with the army on the land. And it became, in the air, what the army is on the ground, or the navy at sea—a force fighting in its own element. This is true air power, and the enemy had nothing like it.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25805, 28 March 1945, Page 6
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