Dutch SS volunteers. Undoubtedly at the end of the war, since the SS here have allowed a volunteer with glasses.

SS-Freiwilligen Legion Niederlande

Generalmajor Hugo Sperrle (right, in sort-of-civvies), commander of the Condor Legion, and Oberst Wolfram von Richthofen (centre), his Chief-of-Staff (both subsequently Field Marshals), Spain, 1937.  Sperrle and Richthofen were an effective command team, co-operating to solve a number of operational teething problems of the new, budding Luftwaffe during their time in Spain.  The did, however, have to endure a good deal of frustration due to the attitude of their "hosts", the Spanish Nationalist generals, who had less adventurous (and, to be fair, more practical in the circumstances) views as to the best use for aircraft and mechanised forces in the context of a civil war.  Best regards, JR.

Condor commanders ...

Libyan Desert, likely 1942: a South African Air Force’s Boston Mark III bomber aircraft emerge from the cloud of sand and dust raised by his engines at take-off power on Bir el Beheira airfield (Notice the rough terrain). The plane of the photo is an aircraft of No. 12 Squadron SAAF which, arrived in North Africa, after the East African Campaign against the Italians, replaced on March 1942 his Martin Maryland with the Douglas Boston III. The latter was in service until December 1943 when was replaced by the Martin Marauder II. Victor Sierra