British Stuart light tank destroyed in combat by Axis forces, Wester Desert, likely late 1941 during the Operation Crusader. Notice the bodies of the crew outwards the tank. Victor Sierra

British light tank destroyed

A Martin Baltimore of No. 55 Squadron RAF flies over the target area as salvoes of bombs explode on tanks and motor transport of the 15th Panzer Division concentrated by the Rahman track near Tel el Aqqaqir, Egypt, during the Battle of El Alamein. Twelve Baltimores, accompanied by six North American B-25s of the USAAF, dropped 120 x 250-lb bombs through heavy anti-aircraft gunfire which damaged two-thirds of the aircraft.

Bombing the 15th Panzer Division

Celone airfield, Apulia, Southern Italy, 1944: ground crew of No. 178 Squadron RAF enlist the help of a Coles Crane operator of No. 61 Repair and Salvage Unit to lift 1,500-lb sea mines from their trolleys before loading them into a Consolidated Liberator Mark III for a mine laying sortie along the Danube River. The No. 178 Squadron RAF was based at Celone from 1 March to 4 July 1944. Victor Sierra