Benghazi airfield, Libya, early 1943, after the arrival of Allied troops. In front to wreck of a Luftwaffe’s bomber Heinkel He 111H an Allied serviceman look at two German SC 1000 (1.000 kg) bombs. In the background a British biplane Gloster Gladiator. Victor Sierra

German bombs abandoned

Luftwaffe’s Messerschmitt Bf 110 with Iraqi markings at Tatoi Airfield, Athens, on May 14, 1941, likely during a stop of ferry flight to Mosul, Iraq, via French Syria. The aircraft, with the nose dressed with the “shark teeth" markings of his unit, is one of Bf 110 of the 4. Staffel/ZG 76 assigned to Fliegerführer Irak, the German Air Command committed for the Axis support of the unsuccessful Iraqi uprising against the Great Britain. Victor Sierra

“Iraqi” Messerschmitt 110

Ain-el-Gazala, Libya, April 1941: a German aircraftman on the driver’s seat of a truck CMP Ford F15 likely of the British Army’s 2nd Armoured Division captured intact after her defeat at el-Mechili. The vehicle, notice the German flag over the bonnet to avoid dangerous misunderstanding by the Axis air forces, is employed by the 2.(H)/14, Aufklärungsgruppe 14, a Luftwaffe’s recce unit under the Fliegerführer Afrika’s command, for many duties as, in this case, the towing of his Henschel Hs 126B observation planes. The tablet and the emblem over the right mudguard seem the originals. The various exemplar of this ubiquitous truck captured by Axis forces was tasked to many roles included the anti-aircraft weapons platform with the with 20mm Flak 30 by the Germans and with the 20mm Breda by the Italians. Victor Sierra