The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Barce, Cyrenaica, Libya. 6 January 1942. Aerial view of a raid in progress on the airfield by South African bomber aircraft. Heavy damage was inflicted upon buildings and dispersed aircraft. One of the buildings has 'Duce' marked on the roof, probably a reference to Mussolini.
Benina, Cyrenaica, Libya. 6 January 1942. Benina, main airfield of Benghazi, receives a raid from heavy bomber aircraft of the Allied Air Forces. Large calibre bombs rained down upon the aerodrome bur
Barce, Libya. December 1941. A captured Italian Carro Armato M13/40 medium tank in the main square. The front suspension on the tank has been wrecked, probably by retreating Italian forces. In the bac
Benina, Cyrenaica, Libya. 15 January 1942. Obbedire...Combattere...Dux. 'Obey, fight, the Duce! says the large lettering on the hangar wall at Benina airfield. But the Axis mechanics, heedless of thei
Benghazi, Cyrenaica, Libya. 8 December 1942. The Benghazi Cathedral in Cyrenaica received only a few scars from bomb splinters and flying masonry on its walls after the intensive attacks by Allied hea
Bardia, Cyrenaica, Libya. Re-captured by Allied forces on 2 January 1942, Bardia was repeatedly attacked from the air. The harbour seen during a raid by bomber aircraft of the South African Air Force
Benina, Cyrenaica, Libya. 8 December 1942. Only a few scars from bomb splinters and flying masonry mark the walls of Benghazi Cathedral after the intensive attacks by Allied heavy bomber aircraft. The
