Comiso, Sicily, 1942: a Bf 109F of Luftwaffe’s JG53 moved in the workshop after the return from a mission over Malta with some onboard damages: clear on the right wing the heavy damage likely wreaked by AA fire. Notice also the bent propeller’s blades, sign of a belly landing. Victor Sierra 

Malta’s souvenir

Bf-109 night fighter before take-off on a rainy night.

German night fighter

El Alamein area, 1942: a German Stuka abandoned after a disastrous forced landing in the desert caused by battle damages. Clearly visible on the left wing, exactly in correspondence to the wing’s black cross, the exit hole of an AA shot. The plane was clearly hit by ground fire who has also caused the engine failure (the upper intact blade seem a contact with the ground with no running engine). A British soldier checks-out the enemy aircraft by now inoffensive. Victor Sierra 