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<br /> NORTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN • 2025 • VOLUME 52 • NUMBER 1<br /> THE DESERT THEATER<br /> Airpower and the Early Battles of World War II<br /> www.commemorativeairforce.org  THE DISPATCH 1<br /> 2<br /> THEDISPATCH<br /> EDITOR<br /> Leah Block<br /> ART/DESIGN<br /> Farrah Underwood<br /> PRINTER<br /> Knight Abbey<br /> WRITERS<br /> Leah Block<br /> Curt Jennings<br /> David Oliver<br /> CONTRIBUTING EDITORS<br /> Gregory Alegi<br /> Ed Barnard<br /> Rob Chalmers<br /> Craig Tuminaro<br /> PUBLISHER<br /> Commemorative Air Force<br /> CONTACT<br /> Commemorative Air Force<br /> National Headquarters<br /> Physical: 5661 Mariner Dr., Dallas, TX, 75237<br /> Mailing: P.O. Box 764769, Dallas, TX, 75376<br /> (877) 767-7175 info@cafhq.org<br /> www.CommmemorativeAirForce.org<br /> This and past issues of The Dispatch are available<br /> digitally on the<a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=1"> NORTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN • 2025 • VOLUME 52 • NUMBE</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=2"> 2 THEDISPATCH EDITOR Leah Block ART/DESIGN Far</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=3"> C-47 Old Number 30 12 INFOGRAPHIC </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=4"> FLIGHTLEAD LOOKING OVER THE HORIZON WRITTEN BY D</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=5"> UNITSPOTLIGHT DEVIL DOG SQUADRON Top and Left Ph</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=6"> 6 SAND AND STEEL THE NORTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN Pho</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=7"> Photo Source: Shores, Christopher F., and Richard</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=8"> The Panzerjäger-Abteilung 39 (part of “Kampfgrupp</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=9"> Source: U.S. Army Air Forces/ Public Domai and r</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=10"> 10 Pilots of the United States Army Air Transpor</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=11"> THE FORGOTTEN HEROES OF AIR TRANSPORT COMMAND “A</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=12"> CAUSE & EFFECT Context: The North African Campaig</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=13"> 1940–1943 PARTICIPATING NATI</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=14"> DESERT CAMOUFLAGE THE STRATEGY OF MAJOR A</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=15"> REGIA AERONAUTICA The wrap-around scheme with br</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=16"> MESSERSCHMITT ME 109 The Messerschmitt Me 109 was</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=17"> ROYAL AIR FORCE (RAF) blue roundel with a yellow</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=18"> CURTISS P-40 WARHAWK The P-40 is best known as th</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=19"> OLD NUMBER 30 COMBAT VETERAN AND SPY MASTER WRIT</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=20"> The Douglas C-47 of the Troop Carrier C</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=21"> C-47 Old Number 30 helped gees to Italy. Amon</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=22"> Official Merchandise of the Commemorative Air For</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=23"> Gone West </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, 2025, Issue 1 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/51ee4be3?page=24"> L The hon 1 PTSD Awareness and Recovery </a>