Re: North Africa! Where was the Luftwaffe?
Chris Shores is good on this in "Fighters Over the Desert" and
"FoTunisia". While the aces were running up their scores, the Allied
bombers and fighter-bombers were getting through and pounding the
ground troops. Bruno Stachel would have been proud.
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