Ground operations around a Messerschmitt Bf 109E of the Luftwaffe’s Jagdgeschwader 27 (JG27) during his brief operational cycle in the Balkans, April 1941, against Yugoslavia and Greece. The airplane has still the original JG27’s emblem used prior to move in North Africa. But a “109” in background seem to have a North African camouflage. Victor Sierra

On a Balkan airfield

A Dornier Do 24 seaplane 6. Seenotstaffel in the harbour of Patras, after a collision with a fishing boat; note the heavy damages to the nose and to left wing leading ledge. Photo’s date likely 1942, when a detachment of this Luftwaffe’s rescue unit was re-deployed in Greece. Victor Sierra

Accident at Patras 

Heavy maintenance work the open air with tools somewhat rough – watch the empty fuel drum used as support for an disassembled wing – of the Messerschmitt Me 210 F6+WK of the Aufklärungsgruppe 122, a Luftwaffe’s reconnaissance Group at Trapani, on the border of Milo airfield, Sicily. The plane is surely a Me 210A-1 of the 2.(F)/122, the Staffel of the Aufklärungsgruppe 122 equipped with this Messerschmitt twin-engines and based at Trapani from January 1942 to June 1943. Therefore the photo was taken likely between this two date. Notice also in background the fuselage of a Messerschmitt Bf 109 (impossible establish his unit) and the sheer size of the Mount Erice. Victor Sierra