Pig’s flock to pasture near the dispersal of Grosseto Airport, Tuscany, at this time, March-April 1943, extensively used by the German air forces deployed in Italy. The aircraft is a Gotha Go 242 transport glider. On the right the swineherd, in the distance the snowcapped Apennines (Bundesarchiv Bild 1011-561-1138-21A). Victor Sierra

Pigs and glider

Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld ( Born 14th July 1918, Died 22nd March 1944), credited with 51 aerial victories, all of them claimed in nocturnal combat missions. Killed in a flying accident on 22 March 1944 on a routine flight from Parchim to Athies-sous-Laon. Above Belgium, they seem to have encountered a bad weather zone with low clouds and a dense snowstorm and it was assumed that the aircraft hit the high Ardennes ground after being forced to fly lower because of ice forming on the wings. Buried next to Prinz Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein are buried side by side at Ysselsteyn in the Netherlands.
(Bundesarchiv Bild 183-2007-0221-500)

Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld

Egyptian Desert, November 1942: the wreck of two German planes after the Axis retreat from the Egypt, a Messerschmitt Bf 109, inspected by a British serviceman, and a Heinkel He 111 bomber, the latter in the all sand color finish. Victor Sierra