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

Bombs over Eritrea

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

Eritrea, Spring 1941: an aerial view, taken from a RAF airplane after the Italian retreat, of the Keren’s railway damaged by a British air raid. Victor Sierra