Luftwaffe’s Junkers Ju-87B Stuka in mission over Libya with the escort of an Italian fighter Fiat G.50bis “Freccia”of 358th Squadriglia, 1941. Victor Sierra

Escort flight

Soviet soldiers enjoy themselves on the wreck of Hs 129 B-2, W. Nr. 141711 (NK+DA), which force-landed reportedly in Moldavia, Romania, in May 1944. However, Luftwaffe loss reports mention that W. Nr. 141711 of 13.(Pz.)/SG 9, with Fw. Helmut Fromm at the controls, belly landed 20 km east of Lyubashevka, in South-Western Ukraine, due to sudden poor weather and icing on 14 March 1944. The extent of damage is not specified in the report, but the pilot was injured during landing. 

Moldavia, Romania, in May 1944.

One of the some forty Fiat G.50s seized by Germans after the Armistice of Italy of 8 September 1943. Many of this, between twenty and twenty-five, were switched to Croatian Air Force in addition to aircrafts of same type purchased in Italy. With this planes former Italian Air Force were established two units for close air support. Victor Sierra