Westland Lysander Mark IIIA (SD), V9707 'G', of No. 148 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF, surrounded by partisans after landing at a field near the town of Cortemilia, in Alta Langa, south of Asti in Northern Italy, to evacuate three wounded partisans to the Allied-held area. Victor Sierra

Mission for Italian partisans

RAF ground crews and American medical orderlies remove a stretcher bearing Lieutenant John Giannaris, US Army, from the rear cockpit of a Westland Lysander Mark III(SD) of No. 148 (Special Duties) Squadron RAF, at an airfield in Italy following his evacuation from German-occupied Greece. Giannaris, an American OSS officer leading a Greek guerilla group, was badly wounded while attempting to sabotage part of the Athens-Salonika railway line north of Lamia in central Greece and required urgent evacuation for treatment at an Allied hospital. Flying Officer N H Attenborrow flew the Lysander, largely unescorted, over 500 miles from Southern Italy to pick up the wounded officer on a landing strip prepared by the guerillas in the Pindus mountains. Victor Sierra

Medical evacuation from Greece to Italy

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