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 ATS spotter with binoculars at

ATS spotter with binoculars at the anti-aircraft command post

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

7 May 1945

Lieutenants D Knight (extreme left) and H A Kuhlberg (extreme right)

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 ATS spotter with binoculars atAir 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