An Italian shepherd boy, assisted by an airman, drives his flock of sheep across Triolo landing ground, south of San Severo, Southern Italy, 1944, as a Supermarine Spitfire HF Mark VIII of No. 145 Squadron RAF receives its evening service. An usual spectacle on the Southern Italy’s landing strip during the war years. Victor Sierra

Sheep and Spitfire

A Douglas Dakota of No. 216 Group RAF taxies to its dispersal point after landing at Grottaglie, Apulia, Southern Italy, Summer 1943. On the right two pilots of No. 267 Squadron RAF from beneath the wing of their Dakota. Victor Sierra

Dakota in Southern Italy

(Rus)  On 22/23 November 1944 Halifax JP321/V of No 614 Squadron, with Fg Off H. Weldon and crew, acted as 'illuminator' for a raid on the marshalling yards at Szombatheley, Hungary. At 2010 hrs the Halifax was attacked twice in three minutes by a Ju 88 night fighter. The first enemy incendiaries set fire to two ammunition boxes in the rear fuselage, causing most of the rounds to detonate. Regardless of the hazard, the flight engineer, Sgt K. Briggs, extinguished the flames and the aircraft was brought back to its Amendola base in Italy without injury to the crew. 
   The aircraft was scrapped. (IWM CHI7868) 
