Vickers Wellington XII JA412 of No 221 Squadron, Royal Air Force Coastal Command, operating from Hassani, near Athens, on its way to drop supplies including newspapers, leaflets and clothing to isolated Greek villages cut off by the enemy's demolition of bridges. This plane operated as part of a Mediterranean coastal organization with a role much like the Coastal Command. The antenna of the plane's sea-search radar are visible. Year 1945. Victor Sierra

In front to Greek coast

Air Officer Commanding Malta, Air Vice Marshal Sir Keith Park, in the cockpit of his personal Supermarine Spitfire V before his ceremonial take-off at Malta's new aerodrome at Safi, May 1943. Born in New Zealand, as commander of No. 11 Group RAF Keith Park was a protagonist of the Battle of Britain. Air Office Commanding-in-Chief Middle East Command from January 1944, after the war Keith Park, retired from the RAF and promoted to Air Chief Marshal on 20 December 1946, returned to New Zealand, where he took up a number of civic roles and was elected to the Auckland City Council. Keith Park lived in New Zealand until his death on 6 February 1975, aged 82 years. Victor Sierra

The Air Vice Marshal’s Spitfire

A British fighter Supermarine Seafire Mark IIc of 885 Naval Air Squadron, restrained by a man on the tail and another three on the wing tips, warming up its engine for takeoff in bright sunshine on the deck of HMS Formidable in the Mediterranean, December 1942, just after the Operation Torch. Victor Sierra