
Sicily, 1945. A Westland Lysander, working with the RAF Anti-Malaria Control Unit, sprays DDT powder over swamp land in an effort to eradicate malaria-carrying mosquitos. Victor Sierra


Anti-malaria aircraft

Unserviceable Supermarine Spitfire fuselages lined up on trestles at No. 156 Maintenance Unit, Blida, Algeria. On the right, in background, also an USAAF’s Spitfire’s fuselage. Victor Sierra

Spit’s fuselages

Dressed in protective suits, an RAF typhus team of No. 31 Mobile Field Hospital wait by their Fordson WOT1 Ambulances at Bari, Italy, 1944, as they prepare to receive wounded and sick partisans and civilians of the Yugoslav National Army of Liberation, evacuated to Italy by the Balkan Air Force Casualty Evacuation Section. Victor Sierra