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Re: The Desert Air Force in World War II
Been doing a little more digging, and perhaps Delve is, to a degree, correct.
This from the chapter Formation in "The 2nd Tactical Air Force" by Shores and Thomas:
"However, the campaign in North Africa had provided abundant experience of tactical operations in direct support of ground forces, backed up by highly mobile supporting echelons. Following the end of fighting in Tunisia, the highly-experienced Western Desert Air Force, which had supported the Eighth Army, and the North-West African Air Force, which had supported the First Army, were welded together to form the Desert Air Force, or First Tactical Air Force, for further operations involving the invasion of southern Europe. At home, moves were afoot to organise a second Tactical Air Force, similar in concept to the First, in preparation for the planned operations in Western Europe.
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