Airmen in tropical dress work on the Allison engine of a Lend-Lease Curtiss Tomahawk for the RAF in a makeshift hangar, perhaps at Takoradi, Gold Coast, today Ghana. The aircraft is likely one of the single-engine fighters shipped from USA in crates on board of merchant ships and reassembled in Western Africa before the ferry to Egypt. Victor Sierra

Before the ferry

Hawker Typhoons of No. 609 Squadron, RAF, at forward base in Normandy, 1944.  Mascot Billy de Goat's exploits with the local goat ladies occasioned a certain amount of worry, leading to his human friends having him neutered in the interests of general entente.  JR.

609 Squadron in Normandy.

British Military Policeman on guard at British Military Headquarters, Florence, accompanied by Italian Carabiniere in parade uniform.  The latter looks rather more comfortable and relaxed than the former.  Photo by George F. Kaye, August 1944.  Best regards, JR.