 Nhanho yokutanga yeNorth Africa Campaign yakatanga nekukundwa kwakawanda kweItaly kwakaguma neOperation Compass, iyo yakaparadza chikamu chikuru cheItaly North African Army. I.StG 1 yakaendeswa kuCastel Benito, pedyo neTripoli, Libya. Basa racho raiva rokudzivirira kuparara kweAxis mudunhu racho nokutsigira Afrika Korps. Boka rokutanga rakatanga kurwisa zviteshi zvengarava muCyrenaica mukugadzirira Operation Sonnenblume. Rakaramba riri ikoko kusvikira muna May 1943, panguva iyoyo rakanga rava kunzi II.StG 3. 