The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Western Desert, Cyrenaica, Libya. 28 October 1942. Scattered over the desert in the Middle East battle area are the wrecks of enemy tanks and motor vehicles blown to pieces in the fierce shuttle service raids by Allied bomber aircraft. For weeks they have been targets for aircraft which have pounded them night and day. Since the beginning of the new battle when our effort in the *shuttle service* was increased on a scale never before attempted in the Middle East, fires and columns of black smoke rising from the sands revealed the telling effect of this powerful new offensive in the air. British troops are inspecting a tank wrecked in a raid by Allied bomber aircraft over the battle area.
Benghazi, Cyrenaica, Libya. 27 November 1942. Benghazi harbour, which was blasted for months by Allied bomber aircraft, is full of wrecks and vessels sunk in previous campaigns still block the harbour
Western Desert, Egypt. 10 November 1942. Bombs dropped from Allied medium bomber aircraft crash among Axis motor vehicles dispersed beside a road. 'Shuttle Service' Squadrons have relentlessly followe
Western Desert, Cyrenaica, Libya. 28 October 1942. A pilot climbs into the cockpit of a Glenn Martin Baltimore bomber aircraft via the door underneath the nose while ground crew are still working on t
Western Desert, Egypt. 6 November 1942. Bombs score a direct hit among vehicles in an enemy convoy at a road junction between Daba and Fuka as the Allied Air Forces continue to pound Rommel's retreati
Flying over the western desert is one of the large Handley-Page Halifax bomber aircraft, aircraft code ZA-Z of No.10 Squadron Royal Air Force (RAF), with which the RAF have pounded Tobruk, destroyed s
Benghazi, Cyrenaica, Libya. 27 November 1942. Benghazi harbour, which was blasted for months by Allied bomber aircraft, is full of wrecks. All kinds of ships lie beside the bomb-shattered wharves and
