Regia Aeronautica’s servicemen near a Luftwaffe’s Ju 87D just landed on an Italian airport, circa 1943. Victor Sierra

Just landed

One of the crew members of a Henschel Hs.126 reconnaissance-observation plane takes aerial photos of the ground during a training flight over East Prussia.
 


Reconnaissance-observation plane

During the&quot; Grosser Bahnof &quot; (celebration for achieving a certain number of missions, or aerial victories), sometimes a ground crew disguise himself in chimney sweep garb, to give luck (it's probably unique to the german culture)
 The pilot depicted it is Herbert BAUER, Kapitän of 3./SG 2 which just achieved his 1000th mission, on 3 May 1944 at Husi, Rumania. The &quot;chimney sweep&quot; is Unteroffizier HAGEBOCKER
 Herbert Bauer is credited with 11 confirmed victories (10 with Fw 190 and one with Ju 87), 12 unconfirmed, 51 tanks and also some soviet ships
 Source : Collection H. Obert