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War Fair- Holidays at Home at a Fete in Russell Square, London, 1943
A member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force plays a game at the Russell Square fete. The aim is for the WAAF to roll a penny and get it to land within the lines of a particular square, in order to win the numbers marked within the square. Amongst the civilians watching her as she plays is an American airman, wearing RAF wings. According to the original caption, "his double wings meant he had once flown for Britain": he would have been a member of an Eagle Squadron.

War Fair- Holidays at Home at a Fete in Russell Sq

Libya, December 1941: bombs from Bristol Blenheim Mark IVs of No. 270 Wing RAF explode among Junkers Ju 52s German transport aircraft parked on the landing ground at El Magrun, Libya, in the afternoon of 22 December 1941. Blenheims, from Nos, 14 and 84 Squadrons RAF and the Lorraine Squadron of the Free French Air Force, made a series of attacks on El Magrun on 21-22 December 1941, which was being used extensively by the Luftwaffe to provide air support for their retiring ground forces during operation Operation Crusader made by the British Eighth Army between 18 Novembe-30 December 1941 which relieved the siege of Tobruk. Victor Sierra