Celone airfield, Apulia, Southern Italy, 1944: ground crew of No. 178 Squadron RAF enlist the help of a Coles Crane operator of No. 61 Repair and Salvage Unit to lift 1,500-lb sea mines from their trolleys before loading them into a Consolidated Liberator Mark III for a mine laying sortie along the Danube River. The No. 178 Squadron RAF was based at Celone from 1 March to 4 July 1944. Victor Sierra

Loading the mines

British Stuart light tank destroyed in combat by Axis forces, Wester Desert, likely late 1941 during the Operation Crusader. Notice the bodies of the crew outwards the tank. Victor Sierra