Images

This map illustrates the North Africa Campaign of World War II, spanning from 1940 to 1943 - a series of operations and battles for control of the strategic region between the Allied forces (primarily the British Commonwealth) and the Axis...

A photograph of Polish soldiers during the Siege of Tobruk (Apr-Dec 1941) in the Western Desert Campaigns in North Africa during the Second World War (1939-45). Taken in September 1941. (Imperial War Museums)

A formation of Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive-bomber during the attack on Poland in 1939 in the first year of the Second World War (1939-45). (German Federal Archives)

A Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive-bomber during the Netherlands campaign in the Second World War (1939-45). (Netherlands Ministry of Defence)

A 1943 photograph of a formation of Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive-bombers. Flying over the Eastern Front during the Second World War (1939-45). (German Federal Archives)

A Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive-bomber, captured in North Africa in 1941. (Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago).

A photograph of a Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive-bomber releasing its bomb load during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph showing Free French troops digging an artillery emplacement at Bir Hakeim, Libya prior to the battle of Gazala in June 1942. (Imperial War Museums)

Two members of the French Foreign Legion who fought at the battle of Bir Hakeim in June 1942 during the Second World War (1939-45). They are eating tinned corned beef, part of their British Army rations. (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph showing members of the French Foreign Legion who fought at the battle of Bir Hakeim in June 1942 during the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)