Canadian soldiers at Reggio Calabria Airfield, Southern Italy, Summer 1943, to pose with a wreck of a former French Air Force fighter Dewoitine D-520 seized and employed by Italian Regia Aeronautica after 1942. The plane is a D-520 of 164th Squadriglia. Victor Sierra

Former French fighter and Canadian soldiers

Aircrew and groundcrew of No. 428 (Ghost) Squadron, RCAF, with Avro Lancaster B.X aircraft KB760 NA:P “P-Peter,” which flew the squadron’s 2,000th sortie, a raid on Bremen, Germany. Middleton St. George, England, August 18th 1944. (L-R at centre): Flying Officers W.C. Chester and A.J. Carter.