Sicily, August 1943. At Catania airfield, by now in the hands of Allied forces, two Australian servicemen look at the body of a dead Italian airman, killed during the Allied shelling and bombing of the airfield. Note in the background two damaged Italian fighter Reggiane Re.2005 &quot;Sagittario&quot;. Victor Sierra

Death at Catania Airfield

12 July 1943, Sicily Invasion. American soldiers looking at a dead German pilot and his wrecked plan, perhaps hit by AA fire, near Gela, Sicily. (Signal Corps Photo).  Victor Sierra

Dead German pilot

The tail of USAAF's Boeing B-17G letter "H", serial number 42-31552, of 748 Bomb Squadron, 457th Bombardment Group (Heavy), based in England, crashed, 12 July 1944, in Swiss mountains, at Schlappintal, in Canton of Grigioni, on return from a mission over Munich. The entire crew was killed. The 12 July 1944 was a bad day for 457th BG: trhe aircraft lost, five damaged, 27 crew members killed or missed in action. In the same day another American bomber,  a B-24H Liberator, crashed in Swizterland. Victor Sierra