High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Northwest African Air Forces (NAAF) was the principal sub-command of the Mediterranean Air Command created when the Allied air forces in North Africa and the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO) were reorganized in February of 1943. Based on the successful air interdiction model of the Royal Air Force (RAF) pioneered primarily by Air Marshal Arthur Tedder and Air Vice Marshal Arthur Coningham of Middle East Command in Egypt and Libya during 1942, the main combat commands of NAAF consisted of strategic, coastal, and tactical air forces. The tri-force command structure was successfully implemented and developed during the Tunisian, Sicilian, and Italian campaigns and therefore retained when the air forces were again reorganized in December of 1943 as the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces (MAAF) which persisted until the end of the Second World War in Europe. Effective coordination of air and ground forces was a key feature of the tri-force...