A nitrates factory in Crotone, Calabria, Southern Italy, under attack from three Bristol Blenheims of No. 105 Squadron RAF based at Luqa, Malta. The aircraft, two of which can be seen flying between the columns of smoke rising from the factory, came under concentrated anti-aircraft fire from vessels moored offshore, as a result of which one damaged Blenheim crash-landed near the town and another was written off attempting to land back at Luqa. Photo perharps taken in 1941. Victor Sierra

Nitrates factory under attack

A German woman committed suicide out of fear of the Red Army. A mass phenomenon in German eastern territories and Austria back in 1945. Berlin, [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landwehrkanal]the Landwehrkanal[/url].

Berlin suicide

Short Sunderland Mark I, L5807 DQ-R, of No. 228 Squadron RAF, on fire and sinking while moored at Kalafrana, Malta, following an attack by German fighter Messerschmitt Bf 109s of 7/JG26 (“The Abbeville Boys”). According the Imperial War Museum the photograph was taken by Group Captain Livock from his office window at RAF Kalafrana. Year 1941. Victor Sierra