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	North Africa
		This was to use the means that would be accumulated in England by the fall of 1942, plus additional forces from the United States, to invade North Africa, where, it was hoped, French forces might lend support to the operation.
		The primary objective was to utilize ready Allied forces in an operation commensurate with current capabilities to relieve pressure on the Russians.
		In North Africa the Germans and their Italian allies controlled a narrow strip along the Mediterranean coast between Tunisia and Egypt with an army numbering some 100,000 men under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
	www.worldwar2history.info /North-Africa (1042 words)

	Army Air Forces in World War II
		Today starts Operations FLAX (5-22 Apr) which is designed to destroy, in the air and on the ground, enemy air transports and escorts employed in ferrying personnel and supplies to Tunisia.
		Northwest African Tactical Air Force (NATAF) fighters and A-20's hit landing grounds and military traffic on roads, fly sweeps and armed reconnaissance, and attack ground forces and aircraft in the Medjez el Bab-Goubellat area where an enemy counterattack by armored and infantry columns during the night of 20/21 Apr ends in costly failure.
		Northwest African Tactical Air Force (NATAF) fighters, although hampered by bad weather, attack guns, troops, and trucks in the battle area from Pont-du-Fahs N to the sea.
	www.usaaf.net /chron/43/apr43.htm (9234 words)

	SIXTY YEARS AGO: Dateline Early 1942 - North African Theater of Operations
		America was fighting a three-front war, which consequently made it necessary for the "Rosie-Riveters" to head to the factories to work, as all able-bodied men were needed for duty either on the line or in a combat support capacity.
		The North African war was first started by Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, who envisioned himself at the head of a grand reprise of the Roman Empire.
		The vast expanses of the desert, and the complete lack of roads beyond the coastlines, forced the competing armies to make feints, at which point their supply lines would be stretched untenably.
	www.american-partisan.com /cols/2002/ww2/qtr1/0318.htm (1131 words)

	697timeline.html
		Effective 4 Aug 1943, at Tunisia, North Africa/ Ltr.
		Is RELIEVED from ASSIGNMENT to North African Theater of Operations, U. Army and ASSIGNED to European Theater of Operations, U. Army, Effective 1 Nov 1944.
		- AMENDED - CM-IN 16058, European Theater of Operations, 14 Mar 1945 (15 Mar 45).
	www.nadara.com /697th/697timeline.html (1317 words)

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		Includes personal stories from major theaters such as Greece, Crete, North Africa, Italy and the Pacific.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar (452 words)

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	Eisenhower, Dwight D. -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		After the war he added to his military reputation by his work as Army chief of staff.
		Later he became the first head of the armies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
		In February 1943 General Eisenhower was appointed commander in chief of the Allied armies in the North African theater of operations.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9032159 (852 words)

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