Martin Baltimore, part five

The Martin Baltimore Mk.V was the most employed variant of the Baltimore which was, just like the precedent variants, ordered by the United States Army Air Force to be lend-leased to the Royal Air Force. It was powered by an improved version of the 1700hp Wright R-2600-29 piston radial engine and the 0.30 M1919 Browining machine guns in the wings were replaced by 0.50 in.
Australia, together with South Africa, were the only commonwealth users of the Mk.V variant it served with the No.454 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force and the No.15 Squadron South African Air Force, serving all of them in the Mediterranean theatre of operations. As more than 600 of them were produced, most of them served in the Royal Air Force, and in the Mediterranean theatre of operations. In the post-war, some of them were kept in service in Malta and Kenya where they were used for aerial mapping and locust control until 1948.

Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Baltimore
2. http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=264
3. http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/martin.html