Tamet, near Tripoli, Libya: repair in the field of the tail wheel of an Italian Air Force’s Macchi MC.202, aircraft 81-5 of the 1st Stormo, 16th Gruppo, 81st Squadriglia. On the contrary of the work in the fixed airport workshop, in this case the personnel of the SRAM (Squadra Riparazioni Aerei e Motori/Repair Aircraft and Engine Team) working with a very ruddy equipment: note, for example, an empty fuel drum utilized for the airplane’s lift in place of trestles and jack. Victor Sierra



Repair in the field

Two mechanics of a SRAM (Squadra Riparazioni Aerei e Motori/Repair Aircraft and Engine Team) of an Italian airport overhauling a Regia Aeronautica’s Macchi MC.200 with undercarriage extended for inspection. The workshop of this photo is the same of the previous picture. Note, for example, the mechanics on white singlet on the right which is the same which appear, all on the right, on the previous photo. Also the aircraft is the same. The almost beach and not prescribed dress of the two peoples clearing up with the high temperature reached in summer time inside the all metal hangars especially on Southern Italy (the photo was taken likely or at Lecce, Apulia, or at Comiso, Sicily). Victor Sierra

Overhaul and inspection

An Italian Air Force’s General inspect one of almost seventy French made Dewoitine D.520 fighter aircrafts seized by the Italy on November 1942 after the Axis invasion of the French territories still under Vichy Government’s control. Note the Fascist emblem (Fascio Littorio) already affixed on the fuselage’s forward section as on all the Italian Air Force’s at this time (1943). Victor Sierra