Goubrine II, Tunisia, 12 July 1943, evening: a RAF airman attaches the tow rope of an Airspeed Horsa transport glider to the tow hook of a Handley Page Halifax A Mark V Series 1 (Special) glider tug of No. 295 Squadron RAF Detachment. It’s the beginning of the Operation Fustian, the airborne assault and seizure of the Primosole Bridge over the River Simeto, south of Mount Etna on Sicily, by elements of 1st Parachute Brigade on the night of 13/14 July 1943. Victor Sierra

Fustian: the beginning

An Italian colonial soldier guarding a group of captured British troops. The Cyrenaika, January 1942.

British POW's

Operation Husky, the Allied landing in Sicily: an Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle Mark I of No. 296 Squadron RAF takes off in the evening light from Goubrine II, Tunisia, during the airborne landings on the Island; possibly carrying a team from No. 2 Special Air Service on Operation Chestnut, 12 July 1943, a failed British raid conducted in support of the Allied invasion of Sicily. Victor Sierra