Messerschmitt BF 109: The Design and Operational History by Jan Forsgren

Author:Jan Forsgren [Forsgren, Jan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781781555866
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Published: 2017-06-09T04:00:00+00:00

A Bf 109G found by US forces at Montesquieu, Algeria, following Operation Torch in November 1942. A pair of P-40s sits in the background. (NMUSAF)

A number of Bf 109s and Bf 110s in various states of disrepair at a North African airfield. (NMUSAF)

With the Allied landings in Algeria (controlled by the pro-German Vichy French regime) in November 1942, the days of an Axis presence in North Africa were numbered. During April 1943, large numbers of Ju 52/3m and Me 323 transports were shot down by Allied fighters. Flying in large formations, a small fighter escort was usually available. On 18 April, no less than thirty-three Ju 52/3ms were shot down out of a formation of sixty-eight transports that were escorted by a small number of Bf 109s, Bf 110s, and Italian Macchi C.202s. On 12 May, the remaining Axis forces in Tunisia surrendered. Losses to the Bf 109 units had been considerable, with more than 100 Bf 109s being found in various stages of disrepair on Tunisian airfields.

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