B 25 of 12th AF flyng over Italy first may days of 1945.
Note the Anglo-Italian rhyme. DVX

Finito Benito, next Hirohito

Italian war propaganda photo showing a downed B 25 with some of the crew effects. 
Perhaps is anyone able to identify the unit by the bomber custom?
DVX

Downed B 25 Mitchell

Elizabeth Gardner of the USA's wartime WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots).  The WASP were civilian women (there were, I believe, 1,043 of them) whose duties involved aircraft &quot;ferrying&quot; (delivering military aircraft to their designated posts) and military pilot training.  Efforts during the war to gain them military status failed, in part, owing to objections from male civilian pilots attached to the US forces.  This status was finally granted retrospectively, in 1977.