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Originally Posted by PatBC
An imporatant consideration was there was hundreds (thousands?) of airfields on the British Isle. There was only a few on Corsica
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I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Corsica was a backwater for a
long time, so there was no sense in building them there up to when
the Allies retook it in Oct. '43 (? based on one map I've seen). Then
there wasn't as much time as the Allies had in the UK to build more.
Do you know what happened when the Allies retook Corsica? Was there
any fighting there? I assume it was Italian occupied, but there was
presumably time for Germans to get there after the Italian surrender.
It wasn't like Hitler to not fight for a place.
Off topic, wasn't Corsica where "Catch 22" was set?