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• ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lea T (Fg Off)

  An Airspeed Horsa Mark I glider of No. 38 Wing RAF waits to be towed off from the runway at Goubrine II, Tunisia, at the commencement of Operations FUSTIAN and MARSTON, the 1st Airborne Division landings in Sicily.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lea T (Fg Off)

  A tattooed sergeant-major glider pilot of the Army Air Corps and a glider-tug pilot of No. 296 Squadron RAF studying a map of Sicily at Goubrine II, Tunisia, in preparation for the 1st Airborne Division landings in Sicily (Operations FUSTIAN and MARSTON).

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Bridge B (Fg Off)

  An RAF officer talks with men of the Co-belligerent Italian Air Force in front of Curtiss Kittyhawk Mark III, FR435 'GA-K' of No. 112 Squadron RAF, at Bari, Italy, (formerly the Italian Air Force's 'Umberto di Savoia' airfield) shortly after the Squadron...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Bridge B (Fg Off)

  A Curtiss Kittyhawk Mark III of No. 112 Squadron RAF undergoes an engine test at its dispersal on the football field at Bari, Italy, (formerly the Italian Air Force's 'Umberto di Savoia' airfield) shortly after the Squadron's arrival there on 24...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Abbott, L H (Flying Officer)

  Supermarine Spitfire Mark IXs of No. 152 Squadron RAF, parked at readiness on Serretelle landing ground, south of Salerno, Italy.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Abbott, L H (Flying Officer)

  A Supermarine Spitfire Mark VC of No. 43 Squadron RAF raises the dust as it taxies to the take off point at Tusciano landing ground near Salerno, Italy, for a sortie.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Abbott, L H (Flying Officer)

  Supermarine Spitfire Mark VCs of No. 43 Squadron RAF taxi through clouds of dust to the take off point at Tusciano landing ground near Salerno, Italy.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Bridge B (Fg Off)

  A Supermarine Spitfire HF Mark VIII of No. 92 Squadron RAF, undergoing routine maintenance at Grottaglie, Italy, is refuelled from a Bedford QL fuel tender.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Bridge B (Fg Off)

  Hungry civilians of Catania scramble for rations being doled out by an RAF airman following the occupation of the city by the Allies on 5 August 1943.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lea T (Fg Off)

  Group Caption G K "Sheep" Gilroy, Wing Leader of No. 324 Wing at Pachino, Sicily, where he also commanded the airfield. Gilroy joined the Royal Auxiliary Air Force in 1938 and was commissioned in No. 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron RAuxAF. He was one...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Bridge B (Fg Off)

  Four Curtiss Kittyhawk Mark IIIs of No. 112 Squadron RAF based at Agnone, Sicily, in stepped line-astern formation, flying south along the Gulf of Catania.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Bridge B (Fg Off)

  Air Vice-Marshal H Broadhurst, Air Officer Commanding the Desert Air Force (fourth from right), talking with squadron and flight commanders of No. 239 Wing RAF during a visit to Agnone, Sicily. Standing to Broadhurst's left with his back to the camera...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Bridge B (Fg Off)

  Armourers load a Curtiss Kittyhawk Mark III of No. 239 Wing RAF with 250-lb GP bombs and re-arm the machine guns in the wings, at Agnone, Sicily, for a forthcoming sortie against enemy positions in the foothills of Mount Etna.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945.

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

  Supermarine Spitfire Mark VCs of No. 152 Squadron RAF being refuelled between sorties at Lentini East, Sicily, as another Spitfire flies over them.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Bridge B (Fg Off)

  Fighter pilots report to the squadron intelligence officer at an airfield in the Catania area of Sicily, after a sortie.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945.

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

  Martin Baltimore Mark IIIA, FA342 ‘P’, of No. 223 Squadron RAF Detachment, taking off from Luqa, Malta for an attack on enemy targets in Sicily.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945.

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

  A British Army ambulance pulls up in front of a line of Douglas Dakota Mark IIIs at Catania, Sicily, FD986

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Bridge B (Fg Off)

  Ground personnel watch as Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX ('UF-?') of No. 601 Squadron RAF, comes in to land land on the newly-completed airfield at Lentini West, Sicily. Four Spitfire squadrons of No. 244 Wing RAF were operating from the airfield by the...

• 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

  Wing Commander A A N Malan, Commanding Officer of No. 150 Squadron RAF, briefs aircrew of his Squadron and those of No. 142 Squadron RAF at Kairouan West, Tunisia, for a night bombing raid on a target in Sicily.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE: ITALY, THE BALKANS AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, 1942-1945.

  part of "AIR MINISTRY SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Bridge B (Fg Off)

  Personnel of No. 3232 Servicing Commando relax by their vehicles in Sicily, while awaiting the order to proceed across the Straits of Messina for the invasion of Southern Italy (Operation BAYTOWN).