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Photograph MED0416 Second World War, 1939-1945Middle East, North Africa. 4 May 1942. General Sofik Cakmak, Chief of Turkish Air Staff (left) and other Turkish officers speak with a Fleet Air Arm pilot (right), on the landing ground.

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Western Desert, North Africa. 4 May 1942. South African Air Force personnel assist General Sofik Cakmak, Chief of Turkish Air Staff in adjusting his parachute harness at a desert landing ground.
Middle East, North Africa. 4 May 1942. General Sofik Cakmak, Chief of Turkish Air Staff (left) and other Turkish officers speak with a Fleet Air Arm pilot (right), on the landing ground.

Western Desert, Libya. 4 June 1942. A South African Air Force Douglas A-20 Boston bomber aircraft takes off from a desert landing ground on yet another raid amid a swirl of fine sand.

Western Desert, North Africa. 4 January 1942. Three armourers bombing up an Albacore aircraft on a desert landing ground. One of the ground staff 'puts his back into it', using his back to help lift t

Western Desert, North Africa. 4 February 1942. Airborne with its Greek pilot at the controls this Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft of the Royal Hellenic Air Force sets forth to a Libyan landing groun

Western Desert, North Africa. 4 February 1942. Greek pilots of a Royal Hellenic Air Force Squadron receive final instruction upon the course they will fly to their forward landing ground in Libya.

Western Desert, North Africa. 18 May 1942. Portrait of His Majesty the King of Greece at a Western Desert landing ground. Note his baten with a ?horse hair tail attached.
