German Luftwaffe soldier with captured Soviet AT rifles.

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A derelict Luftwaffe’s Henschel Hs 129 photographed by Life on El Alouina airfield, near Tunis, after the Axis forces surrender, Spring 1943. The aircraft is one of the Hs 129s employed in anti-tank role by the 5.(Pz.)/Schlachtgeschwader 1 (5/PzSG1) which arrived in Tunisi from the East Prussia on 29 November 1942 via two stops in Italy: Jesi and Bari. Very probably the aircraft of this photo had experienced a wheels-up landing, note the all propeller’s blades squashed sign of a belly landing with engines running, and afterwards lifted up and stood over its 

A derelict airplane

German bomber Junkers Ju 88 flying over Libyan desert, September 1941. The plane, L1+AA, with African livery, is a Ju 88A-4/Trop of Luftwaffe’s III./LG 1 (Lehrgeschwader 1/Demonstration Wing 1), an unit of the X. Fliegerkorps Fliegerführer Afrika based in Libya and equipped with about thirty Ju 88s. Victor Sierra