An Italian Air Force’s Piaggio P.108B strategic bomber, not still configured for night operations (upper surface dark green, bottom surface light grey-blue, short exhausts), and a Reggiane Re.2001 fighter aircraft on an unidentified airport, perhaps the firing test range of Furbara, few km North of Rome, in front to the Tyrrhenian coast. Visible over the P.108’s fuselage the two little fire control center of the remote controlled turrets mounted upper the external engine cowling. Victor Sierra 

The large and the small

Regia Aeronautica’s Macchi MC.202 “Folgore” of the 4th Stormo, on Italian Mainland airfield. The bright green of the grass and the pilot’s dress suggest the beginning of the Spring, likely 1942. Victor Sierra

Where the airports were green…

Photo taken during General Erwin Rommel's Campaign in North Africa, 1941.