HMS Cleopatra throws out smoke to shield the convoy as HMS Euryalus elevates her forward 5.25-inch guns to shell the Italian Fleet at the Second Battle of Sirte, 22 March 1942.
The Second Battle of Sirte was a naval engagement in which the escorting warships of a British convoy to Malta held off a much more powerful Regia Marina (Italian Navy) squadron.

Naval battle of Sirte

The Squadron Leader Saxby’s Liberator turns for home after dropping its bomb load on the target, the Monfalcone’s shipbuilding yards, despite have being hit by a lot of bombs dropped by another aircraft. Thanks the “friendly bombs” the Liberator KK320 “R” had lost the propeller from its port inner engine (seen here streaming oil) and suffered a large hole rent in the fuselage. The crew managed to fly the aircraft and, safely back to base at Tortorella, near Foggia, Southern Italy, whereupon it was declared to be damaged beyond repair. Another, well know photo, depicts a similar, serious accident occurred at one 8th Air Force’s B-17 over the Germany: half of the tail horizontal plan sheared by a “friendly bomb”. Victor Sierra

Thanks “friendly bomb”!

A Lockheed Hudson, aircraft AE626, of the RAF Middle East Communications Flight, an independent Royal Air Force’s unit, in flight over the Pyramids, Summer 1942. This Royal Air Force official picture, part of the large UK Ministry of Information Second World War Color Transparency Collection, show very well the RAF’s insignias in use at this time. Victor Sierra