1942-1943; 93rd Bomb Group in Libya

Black & White photograph montage of various shots of the United States Army Air Force, 93rd Bomb Group, sweating it out in Gambut, Libya, circa 1942-1943. The top image shows USAAF service personnel sitting around their campsite with two Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombers, two Jeeps, and plane wreckage in the background. Service personnel are playing baseball in the middle left image. An unidentified serviceman is getting ready to load bombs into a Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber in the middle right image. The tank in the bottom left image was identified as a German Mark IV Tiger but is actually a Panzerkampwagen (Pzkw) Mark III, Ausfuhrung (Ausf.) F or an early G, commonly known as a Panzer III. The bottom right image has a row of wrecked and dismantled German Messerschmitt 109 fighter planes lined up on the Gambut, Libya, airfield in North Africa.https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/watkins/1090/thumbnail.jp