Looking at this photo of a plane wreck ......the wing design on the left .....is this possibly a Spitfire?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/100298939@N03/9531925193/in/set-72157635111107104

If it is a Spitfire ....this is probably one of the SAAF 40 Sqdn planes that didn't make it ....you can see the sequence of pics....when looking at the background trees and shrub...the pilot was buried near the wreck. SAAF 40 Sqdn was a reconnaissance Sqdn.

My Grandfather was a Cpl in the SAAF who served as a ground crew member during South Africa's participation in WW2. This pic is one of many from his collection that I inherited. Places that I know he was in and the campaigns that his squadrons were involved in during and just after the war included:
The East African Campaign, the Western Desert, Tunisia, Italy and reaching Austria by the end of the War, as well as a brief visit to London immediately after the war.

Please feel free to take a look at the collection. Any insights and identification of vehicles, planes and locations would be most welcome. Here is the collection:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/100298939@N03/sets/72157635111107104/

Kevin, Thank you for sharing your Father's wartime photos.
Very interesting !
Tom

My pleasure Tom!

My Grandfathers pics

The "Unknown Aircraft 1941-1942b" is a Boeing Fortress 1, equivalent to the B-17D.
You can tell by the straight leading edge of the fin and the gunner's bathtub under the rear fuselage.

Kevin,

Thank you more than I can describe!

Looks like an engine run-up boo-boo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/100298939@N03/9531851901/in/album-72157635111107104/

A few of the other pics do show the elliptical shape of the Spitfire wing and the engine cowling is another unique sign, as is the cannon fairing plus adjacent stub.

Fiat Cr.42 biplane from the Italian air force by the looks of it.

https://flic.kr/p/fwexzR

Crusader tank, no idea which outfit.

https://flic.kr/p/fwtPx7

A-20 Boston/Havoc, most likely with the RAF.

https://flic.kr/p/fwtPFy

Volkswagen Kübelwagen

https://flic.kr/p/fwezyx

Valentine tank British Army

https://flic.kr/p/fwtQhq

Looks like another A-20 Boston/Havoc

https://flic.kr/p/fweUPT

This is by no means a Spitfire wreck, looks more like the main gear legs of a Dakota.

https://flic.kr/p/fwxSgE

This and the ones around it look like CMP Blitz trucks.

https://flic.kr/p/fwxxTf

Now I know this has already been tagged Martin Maryland

https://flic.kr/p/fwji1g

But they seem to have found one out there in the African Desert recently. Thought it interesting to mention.

http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/s402/InjectTheVenom02/IMAG20691_zpsloa7y04g.jpg