Italy, end 1943. Attempts being made to free a Douglas Dakota of No. 267 Squadron RAF Detachment, bogged down in the mud at Catania, Sicily, following the heavy Autumn rains. Victor Sierra

After the Autumn rains

South African Air Force Douglas Boston bombers in flight over the North African coast. May 1943. Victor Sierra

South African Air Force in color

Personnel of No. 92 Squadron RAF struggle to free one of their Supermarine Spitfire Mark VIIIs from the mud on the waterlogged landing ground at Canne, Apulia, Italy, 1944. At Canne, in area of famous Hannibal’s victory over Romans, August 216 bC, were also based Italian and Yugoslav air units embedded in Balkan Air Force. Victor Sierra