1941: British Commonwealth troops - probably Australians or New Zealanders - rushing through the streets of Bardia, a Mediterranean seaport in eastern Libya.

Bardia, Libya

Captured Australian servicemen in Crete are source of curiousity for their German guards.

Australian POWs

Grottaglie airfield, summer Italy. 1943. Official caption of this photo: "Italian airmen at Grottaglie airfield in Italy, now in Allied hands, watch RAAF airmen of No. 3 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF, unload supplies from a transport aircraft flown across from Sicily. These transport aircraft, flown by American, British, and Dominion pilots maintained an incessant shuttle service of supplies from the day allied troops landed in Italy". Note: today a the large airport of Grottaglie, near Taranto, in Puglia, is based the  Naval Air Station of Italian Navy with  AV-8B Harrier. Again there is the factory of Alenia Aeronautica for production of fuselage sections in carbon fiber of NBoeing 787 Dreamliner. Victor Sierra