A typical Balkans landscape, snow-capped mounts, clouds and fog view by the cockpit of a Regia Aeronautica’s Junkers Ju 87, early Spring 1941, during the Italy’s war against the Greece. Victor Sierra

Flying over the Balkans

Albanian front: two crew member of a Regia Aeronautica’s Caproni Ca.311 recce unit planning a mission over the Balkans. The officer on the left has over the flight jacket the insignia of the 87th Squadriglia, the ancient Gabriele D’Annunzio’s unit, 87th Squadriglia Aeroplani “La Serenissima” at this time equipped with the Ansaldo SVA airplane, which the poet led over Vienna on 9 August 1918. Victor Sierra

Reading the map

Eastern Front: a group of Bersaglieri and their inseparable bikes along the road of an Ukrainian village under the eyes of the local inhabitants. Summer 1941. Victor Sierra