Italian serviceman attend to salvage of a RAF’s Bristol Beaufighter forced to land with wheels up on a Southern Italy’s beach (likely Sicily). Note the entire tail’s structure collapsed at the moment of the contact with the soil. Date and event’s circumstances unknown. Victor Sierra

Beaufighter on the beach

... you're in for a big surprise !  Not the Teddy Bear's Picnic, but a Bren gunner of the 7th Gurkha Rifles, under cover in the Burmese jungle, ?1944.  Best regards, JR.

If you go down to the woods today ...

This Caproni Ca.100 “Caproncino” (“Little Caproni”), fuselage code GA-2, former civil italian registration I-GUAS, is one of five planes of this types used by the Aero Club di Catania (Catania Flying Club), captured by the British Forces after the conquest of the Sicily and went: three to No. 112 Squadron RAF, one to No. 3 Squadron RAAF and one to No. 450 Squadron RAAF. In particular the GA-2 is one of three planes of No. 112 Squadron RAF which flown the “Caproncino” at Agnone, August-September 1943 and used for taking maintenance personnel on joy rides. Victor Sierra