 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pana 10 June 1940 Benito Mussolini akaunza Humambo hweItaly muhondo parutivi rweGermany. Mussolini aitarisira kushandisa kukurumidza kuwa kweFrance nokupinda mukurwa kusati kwapera uye kugamuchira mugove wezvaakawana munharaunda. Kupinda kweItaly muFrance kwakaguma nokukunda kweGermany muFall Rot. Kurwisa kwechipiri kwakaitika muna September 1940 neKupinda kweItaly muEgypt, uye muna October neHondo yeGreco-Italy. Hondo dzacho dzakakundikana, dzichiwana rutsigiro rweGermany muAfrica neGreece. Masimba eAxis akakurumidza kukunda muGreece. Hitler akatumira Deutsches Afrika Korps kuItaly Libya muna March 1941 kuti adzivise kuparara kweItaly pashure peOperation Compass. Kushanda Sonnenblumevakakwanisa kudzikamisa nzvimbo yeAxis muNorth Africa. The Luftwaffe akatuma Messerschmitt Bf 110 rinorema varwi kubva III.ZG 26 kutsigira Italian African Army kubva January 1941. Chikwata ichi chakabudirira kekutanga musi wa19 Kukadzi. JG 27 yakasvika muna April, muchimiro chaI. Gruppe iri pasi pokutungamirira kwaEduard Neumann. Group yakasvika paGazala musi wa14 Kubvumbi, uye yakatanga kurwa mazuva mashanu gare gare. Karl-Wolfgang Redlich naWerner Schröer vakawana kukunda kwokutanga muAfrica, asi Schröer aiva neropafadzo yokuva mutyairi wokutanga weGermany Bf 109 akapfurwa muAfrica. Zuva rokutanga remabasa okurwa rakapa zvikumbiro zvina nokuda kwokurasikirwa kumwe. JG 27 yakakurumidza kuenda kunzvimbo dzendege dziri pedyo neTobruk kutsigira Siege yeTobruk. Kubva pana 21 kusvikira kuna 21 April Mauto Emuchadenga Air Force akava nezvakanakisisa zvokurwisana. Vanorwisa mabhomba vakabatsira kuparadza dzimwe nhamo dzokutanga dzetangi dzaRommel. 