...accompanied by Ladies. Time & location unfortunately unknown.

Winston Churchill

A Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX of No. 43 Squadron RAF undergoes servicing in an anti-blast pen by the taxiway at Nettuno’s airstrip, near Rome (see other description in WW2 in color) prepared after the strengthening of Anzio’s bridgehead. North American P-51Cs of the 15th USAAF can be seen parked to the left of the pen. Italy, 1944. Victor Sierra

On Nettuno’s airstrip

A Supermarine Spitfire HF Mark VIII of No. 92 Squadron RAF, at Grottaglie, Puglia, Italy, September 1943, is refuelled from a Bedford QL fuel tender. The large destroyed hangar on the right was built in 1916 for airship of Italian Navy. Still today at Grottaglie Airport, near Taranto, the Italian Navy has his Naval Air Station today with Harrier AV-8B of aircraft carriers “Giuseppe Garibaldi” and “Conte di Cavour”, based at Taranto, and tomorrow with F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Victor Sierra