PIRATES of the AEGEAN

摘要

For a young lad hailing from the north of England, it must have come as quite a shock to the system. Landing ground 07 at Matruh West in the Egyptian desert was no place for the faint-hearted or easily homesick. "It was just tents", says former wireless operator/air gunner Arthur Mills. "You couldn't hide behind very much". This was where he first went to war with No 15 Squadron of the South African Air Force and its Martin Baltimores, during a period when these twin-engined attack bombers proved themselves among the most effective and reliable strike assets available to the Desert Air Forces.