text: The "Desert Air Task Force" consisting of North American B-25 Mitchell medium bombers (the 12th and 340th Bombardment Groups) and Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighters (the 57th, 79th, and 324th Fighter Groups) from the 9th Air Force served under the command of Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham of the Northwest African Tactical Air Force. These bomber and fighter groups moved to new airfields on Sicily as soon as a significant beachhead had been captured there.
  In the MAC organization established at the Casablanca Conference in January 1943, the 9th Air Force was assigned as a subdivision of the RAF Middle East Command under the command of Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas.
  Mediterranean Air Command (Allied)
  Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder had his headquarters in Algiers, Algeria.
  Northwest African Air Forces
  Lt. General Carl Spaatz had his headquarters for the Northwest African Air Forces in Maison-Carrée, Algeria
  Northwest African Strategic Air Force
  Maj. General James H. Doolittle, in command of the Northwest African Strategic Air Force, had his headquarters in Constantine, Algeria
  5th Bombardment Wing (Heavy)
  Northwest African Coastal Air Force
  Air Vice-Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd also had his headquarters in Algiers.
  No. 242 Group RAF (Air Commodore Kenneth Cross)
  No. 323 Wing RAF
  No. 73 Squadron, Supermarine Spitfire fighter planes
  No. 255 Squadron, Bristol Beaufighters