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List of Maps and Diagrams

	Facing page
The Mediterranean Theatre	9
Central and Eastern Mediterranean	19
Italy	149
Main Battlefronts on the India-Burma border	279
In text
	Page
Aircraft reinforcement routes to the Middle East,	22
The Western Desert	26–7
The Alamein air offensive, 1942	80
The Campaign in Tunisia, March-May 1943	110
Malta the Target	128
The Airfields of Malta	131
The Roads to Rome	196
The Campaign in Malaya, 7 December 1941–15 February 1942	251
Singapore Airfields	255
The Japanese Advance through Burma, January-May 1942	271
The first Chindit expedition, February-June 1943	294
The Arakan battle, February 1944	317
The second Chindit expedition, March 1944, and the capture of Myitkyina	325
The Central Front, March-May 1944	330
Air Supply in Burma, June 1944-April 1945	356
The Reconquest of Burma, November 1944-May 1945	358

The occupations given in the biographical footnotes are those engaged in on enlistment.

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