Luftwaffe’s Junkers Ju 87B Stukas overflying at low altitude German troops and a Kübelwagen on the Libyan desert. The aircraft are without under wings loads and perhaps this photo was taken just prior the land of the Stukas. Victor Sierra

Stukas at low altitude

According the AWM this Luftwaffe’s Messerschmitt Bf 109E was shot down during a strafing attack to a British Eight Army convoy near Fuka, Egypt, on 1 January 1943. Pilot POW. Very probable, according my opinion, because no evidence of serious damages, the aircraft was hit by the ground fire of light weapons which damaged the engine bringing the stoppage. In effect, according the photo, the aircraft experienced an engine failure and consequent forced land with engine stopped (note the upper blade’s propeller intact while the other two was folded by the impact with the terrain) and wheels up. Victor Sierra

Bf 109 down

The same Bf 109E-7 code S9+DR of the Luftwaffe’s III/ZG1 of the photo «Bf 109 down» after the his “pillage” aside the Allied troops. The aircraft is almost demolished and reduced in a pitiful state, nearly a scrap. Fuka, Egypt, 1943. Victor Sierra