The Allies faced a new and probably the bloodiest stage of all in North Africa. Advance British patrols crossed the Tunisian border last week. Behind them the main force of the victorious British ...

For three years, Axis and Allied forces chased each other over the hostile terrain of the North African desert. The tide turned in the Allies' favour at the Second Battle of El Alamein in 1942.

During World War II, two ace pilots emerged who were considered ... all time - and Hans-Joachim Marseille - the top ace in the North African campaign. A common debate is whether Marseille ...

Follow the three years of battles in the North African desert, and see how Axis and Allied forces chased each other across this hostile terrain.

As a United Press correspondent, Cronkite covered the landings in North Africa and Sicily, the Allied invasion of Normandy and the subsequent battles across France and Germany. He was also a ...