The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Western Desert, North Africa. c. 1941. An Italian pilot, with a bandaged cheek, captured after being shot down by British fighter aircraft in the Libyan battle.
Western Desert, North Africa. 26 November 1941. Italian (left) and German pilots captured after their aircraft were destroyed by British fighters during the second British Libyan offensive - Operation
Western Desert, North Africa. 4 December 1941. Remains of an Italian aircraft shot down near Qur el Beid being searched by a large number of Allied troops. The aircraft had been shot down during the s
Western Desert, North Africa. 4 December 1941. An RAF flying officer with a bandaged right arm, returned from a battle over Libya in which he shot down an Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM79 Sparviero bombe
Western Desert, North Africa. c. 1942. An RAF Intelligence Officer (right) interrogates an Italian fighter pilot, one of General Bonzano's vaunted 'Black Cat' wing (as seen by the patch on his jacket)
Western Desert, Libya. 2 June 1942. One of the Axis prisoner of war (POW) captured in the third Libyan campaign was this heavily be-medalled Colonel of the Italian Air Force. His transport aircraft wa
Western Desert, North Africa. c. 1941. Aircrew get down from an American Douglas Boston III bomber aircraft now in operation by the Empire Forces on the Libyan battlefront. These twin engined bombers
