RAF

IN JANUARY 1942, (which seems like only yesterday), the writer returned to England from war in the Middle East. In the Sudan, (the biggest country in Africa-1,000,000 square miles), we flew the remarkable Vickers Wellesley single-engine long range bomber against Mussolini's forces in Ethiopia. At the RAF Habbaniya Air Base, near Bagdad, we flew missions day and night with rapidly converted trainers against Iraqi forces led by the rebel Rashid Ali. In the deserts of Egypt and Libya we were still fighting that desert fox, General Irwin Rommel, and his Africa Corps.