Searchlights pierce the night sky during an air-raid practice on Gibraltar, 20 November 1942. Victor Sierra

Searchlights

Sgt. F.H. Dean examines ammo belts before they go into his Hurricane fighter parked in the background. Dean belongs to 274 Squadron as is illustrated by the flash on the side of the Hurricane — a squadron identifier. Tragically, Dean was shot down and killed on 15 May 1941, during a dogfight with Me109s near Halfaya.(rudeerude)

North Africa Hurricane

Battle of Athens, Greece, December 1944: Paras of the 2/5th Scottish Parachute Battalion, supported by tank, battle communist insurgents in the streets. With them are Greek gendarmes, one of whom, on the right, is wearing a German helmet.

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