Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An rarraba Ƙungiyoyin Bombardment guda uku don tallafawa mamayewar Allied na Faransa ta Arewacin Afirka
a watan Nuwamba na shekara ta 1942. Da farko an yi amfani da su don aiwatar da hare-haren ƙananan matakan da aka yi a kan manufofin da aka kare, suna haifar da hasara mai yawa tare da sakamako mara kyau, kafin sauyawa zuwa hare-haren matsakaici. A ƙarshen yakin Arewacin Afirka, ƙungiyoyi uku na B-26 sun tashi 1,587 sorties, sun rasa jirage 80. Wannan shi ne sau biyu na asarar da B-25 ya yi, wanda kuma ya tashi kashi 70 cikin dari da yawa tare da ƙananan jiragen sama. Duk da wannan, B-26 ya ci gaba da aiki tare da Rundunar Sojan Sama ta goma sha biyu, yana tallafawa ci gaban Allied ta hanyar Sicily, Italiya da kudancin Faransa. Air Marshal Sir John Slessor, Mataimakin Babban Kwamandan Rundunar Sojan Sama ta Tsakiya na Tsakiya, ya rubuta game da "daidaito mai ban mamaki na kungiyoyi masu tayar da hankali na matsakaici <unk> musamman Marauders; Ina tsammanin cewa Rukunin Bombardment na 42 a Sardinia shine mai yiwuwa mafi kyawun ranar-bomber a duniya. " Slessor a zahiri yana nufin 42nd Bomb Wing - 17th, 319th da 320th Bomb Groups - amma'reshe' na Amurka ya yi daidai da 'ƙungiya' ta Burtaniya, kuma akasin haka.