Below are some pictures from Tony's service with 203 Squadron.

He flew the Baltimore light bomber.

 An early Mark I or II Baltimore with hand-held guns in the rear cockpit

 

 

  Another Mark I or II, on convoy escort

 

A slightly more modern version, the Mark IIIA, with power-operated gun turret

 

 

A Baltimore stirring up the dust

  

 

 

  

A lineup of Baltimore IIIAs at Benghazi. "45" is FA350, and "40" seems to be FA157

 

 

 Tony in his Baltimore

 

The boys 

Gordon at the bomb-sight

Gordon Hampton (203 and 244 squadrons) with a bomb

 

 Bill, Gordon, Bob

Tony   

 

                                                                                    Gordon, Bill, Tony

 A low flying Baltimore

 

                             

 A Halifax I or II that did not quite make it. Undercarriage trouble!

 

  

 An American B24 from a local US base, that tried to land at Tony's airfield, but the runway was too short. Tony describes it slowly rolling onto its back and catching fire. The crew were going on leave, and none were badly injured!

 

 

Tony also took a number of photographs of wrecked and abandoned Axis aircraft at Benghazi.

See the page on Benghazi Graveyard.