| Unlike the Grand Alliance, the Axis coalition formed by the pact had no agreed strategy for fighting the war. |
| Delivering a left hook to try to trap the Axis forces on the Mareth Line, Freyberg hesitated at the vital moment. |
| Of course, these weapons were useless if they could not be brought to bear against the Axis powers. |
| The Allies are led by Britain, the Axis by Germany and the Comintern by the Soviet Union. |
| As Axis airfields and terrain for new airstrips were overrun, the Allied Air Forces began shifting fighter units from England into Europe proper. |
| Walshe was an admirer of Mussolini and when the war began he favoured an Axis victory. |
