Night fighter ace Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (middle), an ace with 121 aerial victories with his radio operator Friedrich &quot;Fritz&quot; Rumpelhardt (right) with 100 shared kills and his tail gunner Wilhelm Gänsler (left) with 98 shared kills.

An Ace and his crew

Wounded disembark from a Luftwaffe’s Messerschmitt Me 323 just landed on Grosseto Airport, Tuscany, Italy, March-April 1943. The huge transport plan has, likely, evacuated German wounded from the Tunisian front to military hospitals in Italy and, after, in Germany. The transport mode isn’t certainly the comfort maximum for the wounded. (Bundesarchiv Bild 1011-561-1142-21). Victor Sierra