One of the outstanding achievements of military activities in the Mediterranean theater has been the succession of amphibious landings in Africa, Sicily, Italy, and France. Each of these operations, of profound strategic significance in the development of the war, has profited from the experience gained in earlier operations of a similar type, and it is important that straightforward records should be available on each one of them. The following report records the part which the Tactical Air Force (then known under its former designation as Northwest African Tactical Air Force) played in Operation Avalanche, the invasion of Italy at Salerno. Table of contents: operations; movement, supply, airfield construction and signals; and armament.

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