List of Illustrations
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List of Illustrations
Unless otherwise stated, the photographs come from the Imperial War Museum collection
| A Wellesley bomber flies over Eritrea to attack Keren | Frontispiece |
| Following page 100 | |
| A Hurricane prepares to take off from a desert airfield | |
| An Australian Gladiator patrol returns to its base | |
| A bomber is re-armed | |
| Italian cruiser San Giorgio on fire in Tobruk harbour | |
| Derna airfield after an RAF raid | |
| Flooded ‘bivvy’ | |
| Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, AOC-in-C Middle East | |
| Air Vice-Marshal Arthur Coningham and Lieutenant-General | |
| Sir Bernard Montgomery | |
| Boston bombers take off in formation | |
| A ‘Shark Squadron’ Kittyhawk | |
| ‘Bombing up’ a Halifax | |
| Servicing a Wellington bomber | |
| Salvage convoy drivers wait for their evening meal | |
| Beaufighter attacks an enemy train, October 1942 | |
| Salvage crews collect destroyed German aircraft at Daba | |
| airfield | |
| Axis transport destroyed on the Derna road | |
| Ploughed-up enemy airfield near Nofilia | |
| A Hurricane tank-buster attacks enemy armour in Tunisia | |
| A Baltimore squadron intelligence officer briefs aircrews | |
| Arming a Wellington torpedo-bomber |
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| Grand Harbour, Malta | |
| The air-raid warning flag flies over the operations room at Luqa | |
| airfield | |
| Spitfires on a Malta airfield | |
| Air Vice-Marshal Sir Keith Park, AOC-in-C Mediterranean, | |
| with men of a Malta bomber crew | |
| Takali airfield and dispersal areas, April 1942 | |
| Baltimores fly in formation to attack gun positions near | |
| Cassino | |
| A bombed railway bridge at Arezzo | |
| No. 111 Squadron Spitfires in Italy | |
| Marauder crews in eastern Italy prepare to move off | |
| United States Army Air Force bombers attack Naples harbour | |
| South African Air Force Beaufighters make a rocket attack | |
| on Lussin Island | |
| Following page 214 | |
| Buffaloes in flight, as seen from a Vildebeeste | |
| Brewster Buffalo fighters at Singapore | |
| No. 488 Fighter Squadron pilots at Singapore, December 1941 | Ministry of Information, Singapore |
| SS Talthybius at a Singapore wharf escapes attack | F. A. McCarthy collection |
| No. 67 Squadron group at Mingaladon | K. A. Rutherford collection |
| No. 1 Aerodrome Construction Squadron working on the | |
| bomber strip at Tebrau | |
| Ground crew of a Spitfire squadron in Burma erect a workshop during a minor monsoon | |
| Sentinel aircraft being unloaded from an LCV | |
| Vultee Vengeance dive-bomber on a forward airfield | |
| Blenheims over Akyab | |
| Indian troops in Burma prepare to board a troop-carrier | |
| Loading a jeep |
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| Over the Hump | |
| Hurri-bomber pilots in Burma are briefed before take-off | |
| Hurri-bomber destroys a bridge on the Tiddim road | |
| A direct hit on a Japanese base in the Andaman Islands | |
| RAF pilots off duty in Burma | |
| Dakota drops supplies for Fourteenth Army south of the | |
| Irrawaddy River | |
| Liberators bomb Yenangyaung | |
| The Myitnge bridge after attack by RAF Thunderbolts | |
| Bombs straddle a bridge on the Moulmein-Bangkok railway | |
| The bomb-shattered docks at Rangoon | |
| A Beaufighter attack on a supply train near Kanbalu, Burma | |
| Liberators bomb supply base at Armapure | |
| The ‘Tree Tops’ Club – an RAF control tower in central | |
| Burma | |
| Remains of Japanese headquarters on Ramree Island | |
| Indian troops collect supplies dropped at Mandalay | |
| Air Vice-Marshal S. F. Vincent, Lord Louis Mountbatten and | |
| Lieutenant-General Sir William Slim | |
| The Kohima battlefield |
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