A view from the watch office at large airbase “Foggia Main”, Puglia, Italy, 1944, as an airman prepares to fire a Very pistol from the balcony. Parked immediately below the tower are two airfield ambulances and a Crossley Fire Crash Tender. Beyond the vehicles are a number of visiting aircraft, including (left to right): a Lockheed P-38 of the 15th USAAF; two communications aircraft, a Fairchild Argus of the Middle East Communications Squadron and a Vultee Stinson Vigilant, and De Havilland Mosquito NF Mark XIII, MM567 “RO-A”, of No. 29 Squadron RAF, undergoing an engine service. In the distance, beyond the main runway, can be seen lines of Vickers Wellingtons of No. 236 Wing RAF. Victor Sierra

Foggia Main

A Curtiss Kittyhawk Mark III of No. 112 Squadron RAF, with the “shark mouth” on the nose”, undergoes an engine test at its dispersal on the football field at Bari, Italy, (formerly the Italian Air Force's “Umberto di Savoia” airfield) shortly after the Squadron's arrival there on 24 September 1943. Victor Sierra

Engine test on a football field

Two RAF mechanics fit a long-range fuel tank under the wing of a North American Mustang Mark III of No. 213 Squadron RAF at Biferno, near Termoli, in Molise Region, Italy, for a mission in support of partisan forces in Yugoslavia. The No 213 Squadron was an unit embedded in Balkan Air Force from 1944 to 1945. Victor Sierra