While and airman taking out the canvas of engine’s cowlings, the armorers in work clothes loading the 250 kg bombs on an Italian bomber Savoia-Marchetti S.79 under the guidance of two NCOs. Note the NCO in foreground with a black armband, sign of mourning in its family. Autumn 1940. Victor Sierra

Bombs loading

The gunner of an Italian bomber Savoia-Marchetti S.79 and the 12,7 mm Breda-SAFAT machine gun of dorsal turret. Victor Sierra

The gunner and his weapon

Italian Air Force’s airmen moving towards the flight line a strategic recce plan Fiat CR.25 of 173rd Squadriglia on a Sicilian airfield, 1941. An airmen group pushing the aircraft by the horizontal tail plan while on other pulling the aircraft’s tail through a trolley. In background other airmen beginning to remove the wheels chocks of a second CR.25. Victor Sierra