North Africa

By Brooke Ray

In World War II, many terrible wars were fought; one place that was highly unpublicized was North Africa. It was so unpublicized that some people today do not even know that there was war in North Africa. The Allies fought in this series of battles that were more commonly known as “The Desert Wars,” which were crucial to the winning of the entire war by the Allies. There were troops from America and Britain as far east as Egypt, as far south as Libya, as for north as Tunisia, and as far west as Morocco. The Allies had a strategy to come in from all sides of North Africa and squish the Nazis into surrender. The Allies had a great idea, but were not prepared for what happened. When the Allies all got to what they thought was going to be the last North African battle, the Nazis brought in extra air forces and started to bomb the living daylights out of the Allies. All of the Allies retreated westward to think of a better plan. Some men ran without stopping for tens of miles. The Americans got a rude awakening after that. They realized after seeing people die right in front of their eyes, possibly their brothers or friends, that they really had to try this time. The Allies planned what they hoped to be one last attack. Since the Italian Nazis had surrendered in the middle of the Allie’s first tactic, all the Allies had left to beat was the Germans. The battle lasted months, but the Allies thankfully won, which lead the Allied forces to an unconditional victory.

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