Between 1942 and early 1943, American bomber squadrons arrived in force in Britain and the Allies were able to mount evermore powerful and devastating strikes against Nazi targets. But the bomber formations would be met by swarms of German interceptors, and caught in merciless aerial battles stretching across hundreds of miles of sky. At the same time, the arrival of U.S. air power boosted the Allies' offensive capabilities in North Africa against an increasingly beleaguered Afrika Korps.
—W A Mckibben