NORTH AFRICAN WAR HISTORY
     North Africa is a land mostly consisting of many large desert
plains. Rough and rugged ground existing mostly every where else. 
This land was not created with the comforts of man in mind, but it
was one of the best places on the Earth where a war could be fought
and very little thought had to be given to the welfare of local
inhabitants.

 After the fall of France the only place where the British could do
any offensive against the axis was in North 
Africa.  Although the British were out numbered and out gunned,
they were able to fight a very strong action, pushing the Italians
back to Libya from Egypt.  When it looked like the British were
going to throw the Italians out of Africa, the Germans came.  A
short time after they arrived they quickly pushed the British army
back past Tobruk.  Where the British held and later when their
supplies were replenished they attacked.  They surprised The
Germans and pushed them back to Libya.  Where the germans held and
went on the offensive, the Germans pushed the British almost all
the way back to Cairo.  This time the Germans were able to capture
Tobruk, a prize that alluded them the first time.  However this was
to be the high water mark in German success in North Africa.  While
the British held and this time knocked out the German army out of
africa for good.  Wile the british were driving the Germans and
Italians west, the Americans landed on the northwest African coast. 
The Americans were able to quickly establish a bridgehead and
swiftly over run the French African nations.  The Americans moved
east as fast as they could, but got bogged down near Castlering
Pass where the German and Italians made a strike at the green
unproven Americans.  With the British shoving from the East and the
pressure of the Americans from the west, the Axis forces could not
hold and collapsed.  Many Germans and Italians were taken prisoner,
and the Axis forces lost large amounts of war equipment and
experienced warriors.  North africa was a big drain on men and
supplies, one the Axis forces could not afford.  
                      