Title

'Huge bombproof stores and repair shops were made from the caves', c1942-1943, (1945). Creator: Unknown.

Caption

'Huge bombproof stores and repair shops were made from the caves in the Mokattam hills, south of Cairo. The Pyramids, seen faintly in the distance across the Nile, were built of rock hewn from these caves', c1942-1943, (1945). From "R.A.F. Middle East - The Official Story of Air Operations, Feb. 1942 - Jan. 1943". [His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1945]
The Print Collector collection

Date

1942

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19D54_456

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

55,8Mb (2,5Mb) / 13,9in x 15,5in / 4183 x 4661 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors His Majesty's Stationery Office Her Majesty's Stationery Office RAF Middle East river hill people male man men arts cave Middle East country Cairo Egypt flight book storage guy British equipment geography Nile Egyptian war caves store stores location royal air force Armed Forces century distant Britain precaution aviation literature concept repairs repair river nile 1940s huge metaphor enormous Air Force Forties Day World War II World War two WWII world war 2 the Nile 20th century repair shop The Print Collector decade geographical feature Pyramids of Giza Pyramids of Gizeh RAF Second World War store room TGN WW2 outside photograph landscape 2nd World War Muqattam Unknown bombproof Mizraim Mokattam HMSO HMSO photograph landscape