Inspection and maintenance of a German fighter Messerschmitt Bf 109 with 20 mm cannons in under wing gunpods, at Trapani-Milo airfield, at the foot of Mount Erice, Sicily. Impossible specify exactly the Luftwaffe’s unit of this aircraft: perhaps the JG53 which was deployed in Sicily for many times. Date likely Summer 1942 or Spring 1943. A propeller’s blade has the number 16600. Victor Sierra

At the foot of Mount Erice

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

Heavy maintenance open air

Stuka dive-bombers fly over, Immola Airfield, Finland, July 2, 1944.