Selasa, 24 Oktober 2017

Wildcats Battle Hawks Over Casablanca

In one of WWII’s more ironic spectacles, American planes fought American planes in the skies above French Morocco. The Allied invasion of Algeria and French Morocco in November 1942 was a complex and daring operation that would not have succeeded without American naval air power. U.S. Navy Task Force 34 voyaged through some 4,500 miles …

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