On the field just outside Cuneo, in Piedmont, not far from the border between Italy and France, Italian partisans wait for the containers carrying supplies to land dropped by a British plane. The mountains in the background are the French Alps. Spring 1945. Victor Sierra

Waiting for supplies 

Parachute containers of equipment, which will be dropped to Italian partisans in Northern Italy, are unloaded by Consolidated Liberator B Mark VI, KK231, of No 37 Squadron RAF at Brindisi, Italy, Spring 1945. Victor Sierra

To Italian partisans

The Beretta 18/30 was a semi-automatic rifle born at the end ow WWI and improved later, lastly in 1930. The 18/30 was the definitive version used by Italian army in WW2. It was the standard weapon of the Milizia Forestale, here in training with the 18/30. DVX