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...Near Targets. In the flexible Allied air command, the Doolittle and Coningham forces often meshed for common operations. Thus a target of both was the railway system which threads Sicily's mountains and connects its ports, enabling the Axis to shift its reserve forces quickly...
...Chief of Allied Mediterranean Air Command, and Lieut. General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, as Commander of the Northwest African Air Force. Their main striking weapons were Major General James H. Doolittle's Strategic Air Force (heavy bombers over main objectives in the enemy rear) and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham's Tactical Air Force (close support of the embattled ground forces). Together they formed an almost perfect team, welded and tempered in the African victory...
There was a direct telephone between Coningham's and Doolittle's headquarters. Over it, wisecracking Mary Coningham often yelled to wisecracking Jimmy Doolittle for help, e.g., more bombers for a special operation. When Doolittle needed help from Coningham's light and medium bombers or his shorter-range fighters, he got it too, in a matter of minutes...
...time the Eighth Army began its artillery preparation, the enemy's dwindling air power had been sucked to the north and was being shot to pieces. But Mary Coningham, blessed with plenty of U.S. and R.A.F. power, also furnished the light bombers and fighters to blast the way for Montgomery's troops on the ground in the Mareth area...
...Homma-Wadi el Akarit line the performance was repeated. And while the final break-through was being readied by General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander's ground forces, Coningham's airmen continued their slash-and-bomb tactics. They were still at it when the last resistance on Cap Bon finally broke down...