Final resting place

Two German airmen checking the landing gear of a JG27’s Messerschmitt Bf 109E-7 Tropicalized, Libya 1941. The photo highlight the shape of Bf 109’s retractable landing gear and the large anti-sand filter on the cowling’s left side. Victor Sierra

Checking the landing gear

A Deutsches Afrikakorps officer exchanging perhaps a message (the aircraft’s strut mask the type of object) with the pilot of a Luftwaffe’s observation plane Henschel Hs 126B of 2.(H)/14. The Hs 126 remained in service in North Africa until August 1942. Victor Sierra