Wreck of an Hawker Hurricane of the RAF destroyed, perhaps by an air-to-ground attack, in a Libyan airfield seized by Axis forces. Note in background a Luftwaffe's Messerschmitt Bf.110. Victor Sierra

Hurricane destroyed

Sicily, July 1943. Troops, guns, light tanks and transport are rushed ashore in the opening of the Allied invasion as Zero Hour approaches. (British Admiralty photograph BNA4183). Victor Sierra

Landing in Sicily

A large RAF maintenance base at Lecce-Galatina in Southern Italy. Note, down, left, an Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force Spitfire V parked with RAF Spitfires and an Hurricane and other Allied planes. End 1944 or beginning 1945. Victor Sierra