Flying over the western desert is one of the large Handley-Page Halifax bomber aircraft, aircraft ...

Accession Number MED0577
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Place made North Africa: Libya, Cyrenaica
Date made 11 September 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

Flying over the western desert is one of the large Handley-Page Halifax bomber aircraft, aircraft code ZA-Z of No.10 Squadron Royal Air Force (RAF), with which the RAF have pounded Tobruk, destroyed shipping and robbed Rommel's armies of vital supplies.