Associated Press - British bombers over the Great Pyramid of Giza

Cold War-era aviation history, this original press photograph from February 29, 1956, captures a dramatic low flypast of nine Royal Air Force Canberra jet bombers over the Great Pyramid of Giza, a potent and symbolic display of British air power just months before the pivotal Suez Crisis.

Size: 20cm x 25cm
Process: Gelatin silver print
Date: Photographed and printed in 1956
Creases, scratches and signs of editorial use.