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• 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: Brown (Fg Off)

  A line of Bristol Beaufighter TF Mark Xs of No. 603 Squadron RAF start their engines at Gambut 3, Libya.

• 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: OPERATIONS IN MALTA, GIBRALTAR AND THE MEDITERRANEAN, 1940-1945.

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

  RAF ground crew, assisted by a soldier and a sailor, refuel and rearm a Supermarine Spitfire Mark VC(T) of No. 603 Squadron RAF, in a revetment constructed from empty fuel tins filled with sand at Ta Kali, Malta.

• ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: FIGHTER COMMAND

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

  Armourers set the tail fuses on a clutch of 500-pounders in front of a Spitfire XVI of No 603 Squadron at Ludham, March 1945. The bombs were destined for V-2 sites in the Netherlands. Rangers and interdiction sorties were also flown from this Norfolk...

• ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: FIGHTER COMMAND

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

  Spitfire of No 603 Squadron taxiing out at Dyce for another routine convoy patrol, 4 February 1942.

• 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)

  Wing Commander W G G Duncan-Smith, Wing Commander Flying, No. 244 Wing RAF, with "Bonzo", a bulldog mascot of one of the squadrons of the Wing, standing by his personal communications aircraft, a commandeered Italian Saiman 202, at Tortorella, Italy....

• 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: Brown (Fg Off)

  A line of Bristol Beaufighter TF Mark Xs of No. 603 Squadron RAF running up their engines at Gambut 3, Libya.

• Squadron Leader G L Denholm, DFC

  (art) Made by: Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell (RA) 1940

  image: a half-length, seated portrait of Squadron Leader G L Denholm in uniform wearing a flying jacket and a red and white striped cravat.

• Spitfires over Scotland : 'first blood to the Auxiliaries' : the life of Squadron Leader Patrick Gifford DFC and the shooting down of the first German aircraft in British airspace during the Second World War

  (books) Made by: SIMPSON, BILL (author) 2010

  Bibl.:p.206-207

• ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945: FIGHTER COMMAND

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR CENSORSHIP BUREAU LIBRARY OF PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS: CLASSIFIED PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

  Painting the emblem on a Spitfire of No 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron at Turnhouse.