An Avro Anson Mark I, probably of No. 4 Aircraft Delivery Unit (Middle East), used to transport ferry pilots back to their base after delivering aircraft to front line units, parked at Naples-Capodichino airport, Autumn 1943. In background the Vesuvius. Victor Sierra

British plane at Naples

Naples, Capodichino Airport, October 1943: the wreckage of an Italian fighter Macchi, likely destroyed by an Allied raid, and a group of ground crews and pilots of No. 111 Squadron RAF near one of their Supermarine Spitfire Mark VCs. Victor Sierra

Spitfire at Naples

An image from a forgotten operational theater, the war between Italians and British Empire’s forces in East Africa: a British bomber Vickers Wellesley Mark I, aircraft K7775, KU-N, of No. 47 Squadron RAF based at Agordat, Eritrea, in flight during a bombing mission against Italian targets to Keren, 2 April 1941. On the air operations in East Africa was employed, among other things, many types of obsolete or obsolescent aircraft, not present on others theater as just the Wellesley. Victor Sierra