Air Vice Marshal Sir Keith Park, commanding the RAF squadrons on Malta, climbs away in his own personal Supermarine Spitfire Mk V, after a ceremony to mark the opening of Malta's new airfield at Safi, May 1943. Frame:none The tour lasted from 20

The tour lasted from 20 August - 18 December 1969

Royal Air Force armourers check over the sixteen 250lb bombs before they are loaded into a Short Stirling bomber N6101 of No 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit at Waterbeach

in flight over Egypt at the time of its transfer from Malta to North-West Africa

British paratroops inside a C-47 transport plane to land with the First Allied Airborne Army on enemy-held Holland

set against a white background

Air Vice Marshal Sir Keith Park, commanding the RAF squadrons on Malta, climbs away in his own personal Supermarine Spitfire Mk V, after a ceremony to mark the opening of Malta's new airfield at Safi, May 1943. Frame:none The tour lasted from 20Air Vice Marshal Park, climbs away in his own personal Supermarine Spitfire Mark V, after his ceremonial take off to mark the opening of Malta's new airfield at Safi. He is watched by RAF personnel, Basuto and Mauritian Troops and Maltese civilian workers