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Re: Air operations in Italy 1943-1945
Your basic problem is that there was no single RAF in Italy. What you had was Desert Air Force (the RAF part of Mediterranean Allied Tactical Air Force), No. 205 Group (the RAF part of Mediterranean Allied Strategic Air Force) plus units serving with Mediterranean Allied Coastal Air Force. Balkan Air Force was based in Italy but operated over ... guess where? All these were part of MAAF (Mediterranean Allied Air Forces). Oh, and MAAF had some units (mainly photo-reconnaissance) directly attached to HQ as well.
About as close as I ever found were the MATAF Daily Intelligence/Operations summaries for 1944 and 1945 which are in the National Archives. Each summary includes a section on what the other components of MAAF were doing during the day in question. File references are:
AIR23/6509: MATAF Intops Summaries, February-September 1944
AIR23/6510: MATAF Intops Summaries, 30 April-31 July 1944
AIR23/6511: MATAF Intops Summaries, October-December 1944
AIR23/6512: MATAF Intops Summaries, January-March 1945
AIR23/6513: MATAF Int/Ops Summaries, April 1945
AIR23/6514: MATAF Int/Ops Summaries, Nos. 749-757 (final issue)
(There is no overlap between 6509 and 6510; the former does not include what's in the latter).
If any such summaries still exist for January 1944, they aren't filed under the same title as the others. I known practically nothing about 1943 as I've never seriously researched that part of the campaign beyond isolated incidents. There are of course Operations Record Books for the various RAF higher commands and units in Italy, throughout the campaign.
Are you after something specific?
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