A dramatic picture of the 15th Air Force’s raid over Fiat Aeronautica at Turin on 25 April 1944. The factory was nearly completely destroyed and the aircraft’s production was practically halted. In foreground a three engine transport aircraft G.12 under construction for Luftwaffe destroyed by the warehouse’s collapse. Victor Sierra

Air raid over Fiat

The funeral cortege of Sergeant John Merifield passing down a street in Athens to the English Church, where he was interred. According to IWM, Merifield, an air gunner serving with No. 30 Squadron RAF, was the first RAF casualty of the campaign in Greece. He was killed during the RAF's first offensive action on 6 November 1940, when Bristol Blenheims of the Squadron were attacked by Italian fighters while bombing Valona airfield in Albania. Vicor Sierra

First RAF casualty in Greece

The G.55’s assembly line of Fiat Aeronautica’s factory of Corso Marche at Turin completely destroyed by the 15th Air Force’s on 25 April 1944. As a consequence of this air raid the production of G.55s Centauro for the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana (ANR), the Air Force of Fascist Repubblica Sociale Italiana, was halted. Victor Sierra