From the UK Ministry of Information Second World War colour transparency collection: A Bristol Beaufighter aircraft of No 252 Squadron, Royal Air Force with an F14 camera in its nose, warms up on a North West African airfield. April 1943. Victor Sierra

Beaufighter warms up

Bristol Beaufighter Mark IC, T4982 “U”, of No. 252 Squadron RAF (code PN) is secured in its flying position by a crane at Idku, Egypt, as armorers prepare the machine guns for an alignment test. The no 252 was based at Idku from 14 November 1941 until 1 March 1943when it moved west to the newly captured airfields in Libya. Its area of operation changed to Greece and the Aegean, and it was occupied with anti-shipping patrols over those waters for the next two years as well for ground attack missions against the Communist rebels during the civil war that followed the German retreat. The squadron remained in Greece after the war, until being disbanded on 1 December 1946. Victor Sierra

Machine guns alignment test

A Bedford and “Queen Mary” trailer combination, possibly of No. 108 Repair and Salvage Unit, drives through a water-filled crater on a road near Souk el Khemis, Tunisia, on the way back to its base, bearing a damaged Supermarine Spitfire Mark V of No. 243 Squadron RAF. Perhaps early 1943. Victor Sierra