Air 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
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.