The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Western Desert, Egypt. 11 November 1942. Pieces of Allied wrecked Bren gun carriers, armoured vehicles, and Blitz trucks and lorries litter the desert beside the road near Mersa Matruh.
Western Desert, Egypt. 15 November 1942. The litter of a German army Afrika Corps (with palm leaf symbol) truck and wrecked rolling stock and signal box left by fighter and fighter bomber aircraft aft
Western Desert, Egypt. 11 November 1942. Men of the British armoured units, standing on a sandbag jetty, look at one of the large supply vessels sunk in the harbour at Mersa Matruh by Allied bomber ai
Western Desert, Egypt. 11 November 1942. Allied lorries moving up to the battle area with supplies, pass a wrecked Italian Fiat CR 42 fighter aircraft. The biplane aircraft was shot down beside the ro
WESTERN DESERT, EGYPT. 1942-07-18. ROAD SIGN ON THE WESTERN DESERT ROAD BETWEEN MERSA MATRUH AND ALEXANDRIA.
WESTERN DESERT, EGYPT. 1942-08-08. MEN OF AN INDIAN LABOUR CORPS WORKING ON THE ALEXANDRIA-MERSA MATRUH ROAD NEAR EL ALAMEIN.
MERSA MATRUH, EGYPT. 1942-11. A WRECKED AMMUNITION TRAIN OUTSIDE MERSA MATRUH.
