The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Western Desert, Egypt. 15 November 1942. Tangled chassis of aircraft at the foot of Halfaya pass. They were wrecked in the terrific onslaught by Allied bomber aircraft against the retreating Axis columns. As Rommel's armies fled from Egypt, light bomber and fighter bomber aircraft followed his lorries, which crowded the roads, with deadly attacks. Burned out and shattered Axis vehicles are all along the side of the road leading westward from the battle areas.
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
Western Desert, Egypt. 6 November 1942. Enemy transport caught by a salvo of bombs on the road from Daba to Fuka. Direct hits were scored on the road and on vehicles in a retreating convoy. Roads lead
Western Desert, Egypt. 7 September 1942. Armourers roll out a load of trouble for the Axis. In this sortie Glenn Martin Baltimore bomber aircraft delivered the load in 500 lb lots with fins on, and di
Western Desert, Egypt. 9 November 1942. Enemy aircraft abandoned on an airfield in the Fuka area. Some of them were damaged by Allied fighter aircraft and bomber aircraft in the terrific onslaught fro
Western Desert, Egypt. 8 November 1942. Enemy landing grounds from El Alamein to Fuka are littered with aircraft. They were wrecked by the Allied Air Forces in their few weeks' onslaught of non-stop r
Western Desert, Egypt. 5 January 1942. En route to a raid on Halfaya, the observer of a Bristol Blenheim bomber aircraft peers down on the target as the raiding aircraft sweep down on the isolated Axi
