Zuara, Tripolitania, Lybia, March 1943: Douglas Boston medium bomber of No 24 SAAF-South African Air Force. At beginning equipped with Martin Maryland, afterwards replaced by the Boston, the No 24 SAAF Squadron as daytime tactical bomber units carrying out bombing sorties on Mediterranean and North African targets. Note the roundels with orange inner disk orange, and not red like the RAF’s roundels, typical of South African aircraft. Victor Sierra

South African Air Force

A Fleet Air Arm air pilot climbs on board his Fairey Albacore for a night mission, perhaps a harassment mission over Southern Italy, at a base on Malta, shortly after the Island was awarded the George Cross in 1942. Victor Sierra

Night flight from Malta

While an officer briefing crew and ground personnel in front to the camp’s tents, the Boston of No 24 Squadron SAAF, after the takeoff for a mission over the Western Desert, overflying in formation their base, Zuara, Tripolitania, Libya, March 1943. In December of the same year the No 24 Squadron was relocated to Algeria and reequipped with Marauder (Glenn Martin B-26). Transferred in Italy after the end of North African Campaign, in 1944 the Squadron was based in front to the Italian Adriatic Coast, first at Pescara and later at Jesi. Victor Sierra