The 47th Bombardment Group’s A-20s leaving Messina after an air raid against the harbor during the air missions, Summer 1943, before the landing on Sicily. The shore line is well visible above. Until the Sicily’s Allied conquest, Messina with her harbor, in front to homonymous Streets, was an important strategic target for the Anglo-American forces. Victor Sierra

Air raid over Messina

A-20s “Havoc”, of 47th Bombardment Group, United States Army Air Force, raiding the Island of Lampedusa during the “Operation Corkscrew” for the conquest of this island and of Pantelleria before the “Operation Husky” (landing in Sicily). June 1943. Victor Sierra

In action over Lampedusa

A beautiful woman and a great star for live down, also almost, the war: Marlene Dietrich, in military dress, waiting in line for the lunch before to play on the USAAF’47th Bomb Group base, an airstrip near Naples, 1943. Note the expressions, satisfied or awkward, of the men near a great star like Marlene Dietrich. The woman on the right is perhaps a Dietrich’s staff member. Victor Sierra