The air war was fought in the Mediterranean and over the Western Desert was different in many respects from the air war over Europe. This episode covers the conflict from Italy's entry into the war in Summer 1940 to the establishment of an advanced wing of the Desert Air Force in Tripoli in 1942. It covers the invasion of Crete, celebrates the heroic defence of Malta, while in the Western desert, Allied air power played an important role in the defeat of the Afrika Corps, often under the most inhospitable of conditions.
—W A Mckibben