"Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943." Curtiss Kittyhawks of No. 239 Wing RAF fly into Marble Arch landing ground, past the Arco dei Fileni, ("Marble Arch") a monument erected on the Via Balbia, the coastal road in Libya between the provinces of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, to celebrate early Italian Fascist victories.