The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Western Desert, Egypt. 9 November 1942. The coast road running westwards from Daba. Heavy rain storms have flooded the desert in parts. An enemy lorry was abandoned in the water during the hurried retreat while Allied transport hurries forward to supply our advancing armies.
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. 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, North Africa. 22 November 1942. Riggers and fitters of one squadron have made their home in a wrecked Stuka aircraft. Allied Air Force squadrons are moving rapidly in the Western Deser
El Daba, Egypt, 1943. At an airfield on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, a member of No. 451 Squadron RAAF sits despondently in ankle-deep water in his tent, which has been flooded by a heavy downpou
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. c. 1943. Fitters of a maintenance section of an Australian General Reconnaissance Squadron, RAAF, work on a Baltimore aircraft between heavy rain storms. Note the search radar aerial o
