Photos Taken in Libya | World War II Database

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Overhead view of a South African Air Force raid on the German airfield at Martuba, Libya, 6 Jul 1942. Note circular dust patterns of bomb bursts and lines of dust kicked up by scrambling aircraft.	Erwin Rommel and Hans-Joachim Marseille, Libya, 16 Sep 1942	Hans-Joachim Marseille with Erwin Rommel and others, Libya, 16 Sep 1942	USAAF Ordinancemen with the 514th Bomb Squadron preparing bombs at Soluch Airfield, Benghazi, Libya, mid-1943. B-24D Liberator “Wash’s Tub” in the background was one of the bombers on the Ploesti Raid of Aug 1 1943.

A Matilda flail tank being transported on a Diamond T tank transporter, Buerat, Libya, 27 Jan 1943	B-24D Liberator bomber 'Jerks Natural' of 93rd Bomber Group, US 328th Bomber Squadron at an airfield at Gambut Airfield (now Kambut), Libya, Feb 1943	Beaufighter aircraft of No. 252 Squadron RAF at Magrun Landing Ground, Libya, Apr 1943	B-24D Liberator lead assembly ship 'Barber Bob' of 93rd Bomber Group, US 328th Bomber Squadron based at Terria, Libya, Jul-Aug 1943

B-24D Liberator “Lady Be Good” in the Libyan desert over 15 years after it disappeared on its way back from a 1943 bombing raid to Naples. The wreck was not discovered until 16 May 1959.