The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Western Desert, Egypt. 3 September 1942. In the darkness the light of wreckage from a German raider aircraft burning on the ground after it had been shot down in an attack on an RAF airfield clearly stands out.
WESTERN DESERT, EGYPT. 1942-08-30. AUSTRALIAN TROOPS VIEW WITH CURIOSITY THE WRECKAGE OF AN OLD FABRIC-COVERED FIAT BIPLANE SHOT DOWN BEHIND THE AUSTRALIAN LINES. NOTE ENTRANCE TO DUGOUT IN THE FOREGR
Western Desert, Egypt. 5 January 1942. Missiles speeding down on the targets during a raid on Halfaya by Bristol Blenheim bomber aircraft aircraft. The rugged nature of the terrain is clearly illustra
Western Desert, Egypt. 9 November 1942. Allied airmen with German prisoners of war (POWs) who were captured on an enemy airfield in the Daba area. Note the RAF roundel painted on the roof of the vehic
WESTERN DESERT, EGYPT. 1942-09. AFTER ROMMEL, THE GERMAN GENERAL, HAD RETREATED WITH HIS FORCES TO HIS OWN DEFENCE LINE, THE BATTLE GROUND WAS STREWN WITH MANY DERELICT ENEMY VEHICLES, SOME STILL BURN
WESTERN DESERT, EGYPT. 1942-08-07. WRECKED HURRICANE FIGHTER PLANE DOWN IN THE SEA NEAR EL ALAMEIN. NOTE PORTIONS OF WRECKAGE WASHED ON TO THE ROCKS.
Western Desert, Egypt. 5 November 1942. An airman with some of the rockets used for signalling to aircraft as he stands in the flare path of a desert airfield while Handley-Page Halifax bomber aircraf
