BEAUFIGHTERS, VATHY, SAMOS, 1944

Martin Baltimore Mark IVs of No 223 Squadron RAF based at  Celone Italy flying over the mouth of the Biferno River whilst en route  up the Adriatic  coast to attack the railway and sidings at Montesilvano Marina, north of Pescara.

It is worth nothing the runway of Biferno airfield, the line between the wings of the planes,  and above the tail of the plane to the right, the first and shorter horizontal line being the runway of Canne airfield,  the longer and much further away being the runway of Madna airfield.

Fly over Biferno  river_WWII Campomarino airfields


IWM Caption: "An air gunner of No. 264 Squadron RAF about to enter the gun turret of his Boulton Paul Defiant Mk I at at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, August 1940. He is wearing the GQ Parasuit, supplied exclusively to Defiant gunners, which incorporates a parachute harness and life-saving jacket within a smock overall. Four .303 Browning machine-guns are mounted in the Boulton Paul power-operated turret." Source: IWM (CH 874)