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Photograph MEA1212 Second World War, 1939-1945El Daba, Egypt. c. 1943. Ground crew members of No. 451 Squadron RAAF, check a Supermarine Spitfire aircraft before an essential patrol job from an airfield in the Western Desert.

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El Daba, Egypt. c. 1943. Ground crew members of No. 451 Squadron RAAF, check a Supermarine Spitfire aircraft before an essential patrol job from an airfield in the Western Desert.
El Daba, Egypt. c. 1943. Ground crew members of No. 451 Squadron RAAF, check a Supermarine Spitfire aircraft before an essential patrol job from an airfield in the Western Desert.

El Daba, Egypt. c. 1943. Ground crew staff check over this aircraft of a Supermarine Spitfire aircraft of No. 451 Squadron RAAF, at present doing an essential patrol job from an airfield in the Wester

El Daba, Egypt. c. 1943. Ground crew of No. 451 Squadron RAAF, work on two Supermarine Spitfire aircraft on an airfield while two other aircraft have just taken off on patrol.

El Daba, Egypt. c. May 1943. A Supermarine Spitfire aircraft of No. 451 Squadron RAAF warms up in the Western Desert before take off on patrol.

El Daba, Egypt. c. December 1943. Fitters overhaule the Supermarine Spitfire aircraft of No. 451 Squadron RAAF on an airfield in the Western Desert.

El Daba, Egypt. c. December 1943. A pilot of No. 451 Squadron RAAF, in the cockpit of his Supermarine Spitfire aircraft in the Western Desert before take off on an operation from an airfield.
