SOLLUM. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH OF THE PORT TAKEN FROM THE AIRCRAFT WHICH CARRIED THE PRIME MINISTER MR ...

Accession Number 005872
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white, Landscape
Physical description Black & white, Landscape
Maker Parer, Damien Peter
Place made Egypt, Egypt: Sollum
Date made c February 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

SOLLUM. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH OF THE PORT TAKEN FROM THE AIRCRAFT WHICH CARRIED THE PRIME MINISTER MR ROBERT MENZIES ACROSS THE WESTERN DESERT. SHOWS THE HALFAYA (SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS `HELLFIRE') PASS WHICH CARRIES TRAFFIC FROM THE COASTAL PLAIN TO THE LIBYAN PLATEAU ON TOP OF THE ESCARPMENT. (NEGATIVE BY D. PARER).

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