Cutella Airfield, Central-Southern Italy, Adriatic Front, base of 3 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force, a fighter unit equipped with Curtiss Kittyhawk, 29 April 1944. American pilots flying four USAAF 325th Group’s P-47 Thunderbolts mistakenly strafed the Allied base thinking it was a German airfield as some Kittyhawk was in the dispersal with 500lb bombs loaded) destroying one of Australian fighters and killing the pilot of an air-sea-rescue unit’s Walrus. Victor Sierra

A tragic mistake

During the operations around Cassino an Allied soldier looking for a road sign with the distance from Rome: 58 km. The two others are military signpost for the Allies troops. Spring 1944. Victor Sierra

Still long the way to Rome

An Australian fighter-bomber, the Curtiss Kittyhawk Mark IV, FX745 fuselage’s code OK-Y of No. 450 Squadron RAAF, taxiing to the runway at Cervia, on Romagna, Northern Italy, loaded with three 250-lb GP bombs for a sortie in support of the 8th Army's spring offensive in the Po Valley. The No. 450 Squadron RAAF was at Cervia Airfield from 25 February 1945 to 19 May 1945. The Kittyhawk Mk IV (P-40N) was manufactured from 1943 until 1944. Victor Sierra