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A Marmon-Herrington Mk II armoured car armed with an Italian Breda 20m...

A Marmon-Herrington Mk II armoured car armed with an Italian Breda 20mm gun, near Tobruk, Libya, 8 May 1941. A Marmon-Herrington Mk II armoured car armed with an Italian Breda 20mm gun, near Tobruk, 8 May 1941.

Aircraft of the Royal Air Force, 1939-1945- Bristol Type 130 Bombay. C...

Aircraft of the Royal Air Force, 1939-1945- Bristol Type 130 Bombay. Bombay Mark I, L5845 D, of No. 216 Squadron RAF, undergoing engine maintenance at Marble Arch Landing Ground, Tripolitania, while engaged o... More

ASV Mk.II on Vickers Wellington in Libya. CH15215

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Vickers Wellingtons of No. 38 Squadron RAF (Mark XIII, MP707 'E', nearest) lined up at Berka III, Libya, as another aircraft of the Squ... More

British Generals 1939-1945 E2100

British Generals 1939-1945 Field Marshal Lord Wilson of Libya and Stowenlangtoft: Lieutenant General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Commander in Chief Cyrenaica, inspects men of the captured Tripolitanian Camel Corps, Libya.

General Montgomery stands beside a Grant command tank near Tripoli, 27...

General Montgomery stands beside a Grant command tank near Tripoli, 27 January 1943. General Montgomery beside a Grant tank near Tripoli, 27 January 1943.

Libya - Help Them Finish the Job Art.IWMPST14981

Libya - Help Them Finish the Job whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters. The title is separate and positioned in the lower quarter, in black, set against a white background. image: a depiction of an... More

Libya - Help Them Finish the Job Art.IWMPST16865

Lieutenant General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Governor of Cyrenacia, V...

Lieutenant General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Governor of Cyrenacia, Visits Westernmost Areas of Cyrenacia, Libya. Lieutenant General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson making an inspection of men of the captured Tripol... More

Lockheed Hudson - El Adem - Royal Air Force- Operations in North Afric...

Royal Air Force- Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Lockheed Hudsons of the Mobile Operations Force of No. 216 Group RAF being loaded with stores and equipment at El Adem, Libya, for tra... More

Lockheed Hudson - Libya - Royal Air Force- Operations in the Middle Ea...

Royal Air Force- Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. The aircrew of a Lockheed Hudson of No. 117 Squadron RAF unload boxes of ammunition for armoured units at a forward landing ground in ... More

Officers of the Highland Division in the Museum at Leptis Magna Art.IW...

Officers of the Highland Division in the Museum at Leptis Magna image: Two officers from the Highland Division stand looking at two marble sculptures.

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1...

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Flying Officer E M "Imshi" Mason of No. 274 Squadron RAF Detachment relaxes on his parachute after hitchhiking by air and road back to ... More

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1...

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Armourers of No. 89 Squadron RAF aligning and loading .303 Browning machine guns in the wing of a Bristol Beaufighter Mark VIF, before ... More

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1...

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Armourers of No. 89 Squadron RAF servicing the 20mm Hispano cannons of a Bristol Beaufighter Mark VIF at Castel Benito, Libya.

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1...

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Fitters inspect a damaged Bristol Hercules VI engine, removed from Bristol Beaufighter Mark VIF, V8447 'S' "Slippery Ship II", of No. 8... More

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1...

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. A Bristol Beaufighter Mark VIF of No. 89 Squadron RAF running up its engines at Castel Benito, Libya, before taking off on a night figh... More

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1...

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Local Arabs and their camels pass by Bristol Beaufighter Mark VIF, X8166 'E', raised by its tail while undergoing gun maintenance and h... More

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1940-1...

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1940-1943. An airman cleans the cockpit windows of a Handley Page Halifax B Mark II Series 1 (Special), of No. 462 Squadron RAAF at Hosc Raui, Libya.

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1940-1...

Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1940-1943. A line of Bristol Beaufighter TF Mark Xs of No. 603 Squadron RAF running up their engines at Gambut 3, Libya.

Royal Air Force- Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-...

Royal Air Force- Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Trolleys loaded with 250-lb GP bombs are drawn up in front of a line of Curtiss Kittyhawk Mark IIIs of No. 260 Squadron RAF at Marble ... More

Royal Air Force- Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-...

Royal Air Force- Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Behind the wreckage of a burnt-out Focke Wulf FW 200 Condor, Hawker Hurricane Mark IIB, HL681 'A', of No. 274 Squadron RAF, stands o... More

Royal Air Force- Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-...

Royal Air Force- Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas, who succeeded Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder as Air Officer Commanding, Middle East (left),... More

The British Army in North Africa 1941 E6572

The British Army in North Africa 1941 The crew of a 25-pounder gun in Tobruk, 18 November 1941. They are members of the Royal Horse Artillery.

The British Army in North Africa 1941 E6686

The British Army in North Africa 1941 A Bedford OYD truck loaded with troops going through barbed wire into Libya in the Western Desert, 22 November 1941.

The British Army in North Africa 1942 E13261

The British Army in North Africa 1942 The driver of a Grant tank takes a closer look at a gouge in the armour plate made by a 50mm anti-tank round, Libya, June 1942.

The British Army in North Africa 1943 E21569

The British Army in North Africa 1943 A lorry carrying infantry leaving the outskirts of Tarhuna during the advance towards Tripoli, 25 January 1943.

The British Army in North Africa 1943 E4149E

The British Army in North Africa 1943 General Sir Alan Brooke (Chief of the Imperial General Staff) and General Sir Harold Alexander (C-in-C Middle East) in the back of a staff car during Winston Churchill's vi... More

The British Army in Tunisia 1943 NA3776

The British Army in Tunisia 1943 King George VI with General Montgomery at Eighth Army HQ, Tripoli, 22 June 1943.

The Royal Air Force in the Libyan Desert, April 1943 TR901

The Royal Air Force in the Libyan Desert, April 1943 Royal Air Force ground crew overhauling a Bristol Beaufighter's Hercules engines at Magrun.

112 Squadron RAF Tomahawk engine change Egypt IWM CM 2039

IWM caption : Mechanics perform an engine change on Curtiss Tomahawk Mark IIB, AK475 'GA-J' of No. 112 Squadron RAF at a landing ground in the Western Desert.

267 Squadron RAF Hudson flying supplies Libya WWII IWM CM 4096

IWM caption : Hudson Mark VI transport, EW884 KW-B Jill, of No. 267 Squadron RAF based at El Adem, Libya, flying supplies to a forward landing ground in the Western Desert while operating with the Mobile O... More

Air Commodore Collishaw at El Adem Jan 1941 IWM CM 399

IWM caption : Air Commodore R Collishaw, the Air Officer Commanding No. 202 Group, surveys the ruined buildings on the airfield at El Adem, Libya, following its capture on 5 January 1941 during the advance on Tobruk.

British 7.2 inch howitzer crew at Bardia Dec 1940 IWM E 1513

British 7.2-inch howitzer crew in action during the attack on Bardia.

Desert 6 Pdr - A group of men sitting on top of a cannon

IWM caption : THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA 1942. A 6-pdr anti-tank gun and its crew in action in the Western Desert, 3 November 1942. While notionally an OQF 6-pdr, this weapon is actually a US 57mm M1 gun... More

German prisoners in Libya -Le Courrier de l'Air

Cropped with GIMP and removed part of a caption at the upper left. Shows "German Prisoners in Libya", captured by the British after the Battle in Sidi Rezegh, late 1941.

Italian prisoner guarded by the crew of a Bren gun carrier

Italian prisoners resting after a long march are guarded by the crew of a Bren gun carrier in the Western Desert, 16 December 1940.

IWM-E-17100-Crusader-19420920

IWM caption : THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA 1942. The crew of a Crusader tank prepare a meal in the Western Desert.

IWM-E-6724-Crusader-19411126

IWM caption : THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA 1941. Crusader tanks moving to forward positions in the Western Desert.

Lieutenant General Gott

Acting Lieutenant-General W H E Gott (1897 -1942): Portrait of Lieutenant General Gott, 7th Armoured Division, in the Western Desert.

Maintenance of 274 Sqn RAF Hurricane Gerawala 1941

Groundcrew of No. 274 Squadron RAF overhaul Hawker Hurricane Mark I (V7780 "Alma Baker Malaya") at LG 10/Gerawala, Libya, during the defence of Tobruk.