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• ROYAL AIR FORCE: OPERATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, 1939-1943.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Flying Officer Stanley "Glorious" Devon, Air Ministry Official Photographer, sitting on steps set up behind a three-ton lorry in the Libyan desert in the last days of his second assignment to the Middle East.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, 1939-1943.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Devon S A

  Hawker Hurricane Mark Is (W9291 ‘M’ nearest) of 'B' Flight, No. 30 Squadron RAF, running up their engines in the dusk at Idku, Egypt, while operating in the night fighter role for the air defence of Alexandria.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE, THE RHODESIAN AIR TRAINING GROUP IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Interior of a senior nco's married quarter at Cranborne, showing the family in residence.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN MALTA, GIBRALTAR AND THE MEDITERRANEAN, 1940-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Unknown

  A nitrates factory in Crotone, Italy, under attack from three Bristol Blenheims of No. 105 Squadron RAF based at Luqa, Malta. The aircraft, two of which can be seen flying between the columns of smoke rising from the factory, came under concentrated...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE, THE RHODESIAN AIR TRAINING GROUP IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  An RAF sergeants serving with No. 20 Service Flying Training School at Cranborne, walking to their married quarters with members of their family.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE, THE RHODESIAN AIR TRAINING GROUP IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  RAF Mechanics attend to the engine of a De Havilland Tiger Moth at No. 25 Elementary Flying Training School, Belvedere Airport, Salisbury, while local employees clean the aircraft.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: OPERATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, 1940-1943.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Armourers hauling a trolley of 500-lb Gp bombs towards Consoldiated Liberator Mark II, AL574 'O', of No. 108 Squadron RAF, at Fayid, Egypt. As far as is known only two Liberators were employed operationally on long-range bombing sorties by the Squadron...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE, THE RHODESIAN AIR TRAINING GROUP IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Three Harvard Mark Is, N7095 ‘N', N7061and N7125 ‘L’, of No. 20 Service Flying Training School based at Cranborne, practising formation flying over the Mazoe river valley.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE, THE RHODESIAN AIR TRAINING GROUP IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Trainee pilots at No. 20 Service Flying Training School, Cranborne, walk to North American Harvard Mark Is for their training flights.

• AMERICAN AIRCRAFT IN ROYAL AIR FORCE SERVICE, 1939-1945: NORTH AMERICAN NA-16 & NA-66 HARVARD.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Three Harvard Mark Is, N7125 ‘L’, N7095 ‘N’ and N7061, of No. 20 Service Flying Training School based at Cranbourne, Southern Rhodesia, dropping 25lb practice-bombs during a training flight.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE, THE RHODESIAN AIR TRAINING GROUP IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Trainee pilots walk past their De Havilland Tiger Moth trainers at No. 25 Elementary Flying Training School (Southern Rhodesia), at Belvedere Airport, Salisbury.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE, THE RHODESIAN AIR TRAINING GROUP IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA, 1941-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Trainee pilots attend a class in wireless telegraphy at No. 20 Service Flying Training School, Cranborne.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, 1939-1943.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Hensser H (Mr)

  Beaufighter Mark IC, T3316 ‘M’, of No. 272 Squadron RAF, on the ground at Idku, Egypt.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, 1939-1943.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Bristol Beaufighter Mark IC, T3314 ‘O’, of No. 272 Squadron RAF, running up its engines at Idku, Egypt.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, 1939-1943.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Fitters uncrate the fuselage section a Curtiss Tomahawk Mark IIB for assembly at No. 107 Maintenance Unit, Kasfareet, Egypt.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, 1939-1943.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  RAF Fitters uncrate the wing and tailplane sections of a Curtiss Tomahawk Mark IIB for assembly at No. 107 Maintenance Unit, Kasfareet, Egypt.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, 1939-1943.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Bristol Blenheim Mark IVs of Nos. 84 and 203 Squadrons RAF Detachments based at H4 landing ground in Transjordan, en route to attack Palmyra airfield during the first sortie by the RAF against Vichy French targets in Syria

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, 1939-1943.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Hawker Hurricanes of No. 80 Squadron RAF refuelling at Rosh Pinna, Palestine, near the Syrian border.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, 1939-1943.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Members of the crew of a Martin Maryland of No. 39 Squadron RAF unship a Type F.24 aerial camera from its mounting, on returning to their landing ground in the Western Desert following a photographic-reconnaissance sortie.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, 1939-1943.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Air Force official photographer

  Maryland Mark II, AH284, of No. 39 Squadron RAF, undergoes servicing on a landing ground in the Western Desert as another aircraft returns from a reconnaissance flight.