SLB
This airfield hasn't been built in a Desert, but the country it is in does have a desert.
This wasn't build before the war.
Correct, not North Africa.
It looks to be quite large, and had a mixture of bombers, fighters and reconnaissance squadrons/groups
chevvrown
not Bathurst..
ETA: It looks quite large, but is not longer an airfield - and hasn't been since the 1940s, although the runways were removed sometime after 1980.