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

A forgotten theater

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

Bombs explode on the technical site of Italian-held Asmara airfield in Eritrea, during a raid by ten Vickers Wellesleys of No. 47 Squadron RAF, 1941. The escorting Hawker Hurricanes of No. 1 Squadron SAAF also attacked Italian aircraft on the ground which had assembled to fly to the relative safety of airfields in Ethiopia. Victor Sierra