Fuselages of Luftwaffe’s aircraft, Messerschmitt Bf 109 and (in background) Junkers Ju 87 Stuka, down or abandoned after the Axis retreat lined a Gambut, Libya, November 1941, inspected by the British troops. The fuselage of Bf 109 Number 12 is completely riddled with shots. Victor Sierra

The enemy’s spoils

Men of 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment with a Hotchkiss 25mm SA 34 anti-tank gun, Meurchin, 27 April 1940.


British Army,France 1940

British soldiers looking at “Irmgard”, a Luftwaffe’s Messerschmitt Bf 109F/Trop abandoned on a Tunisian airfield, March 1943, after a belly landing (note the propeller’s blades crushed and the landing gear up). A question: the serviceman on the center seem a Scottish. Exactly? Victor Sierra