Condensation trails and clouds: the mission’s scenery for American heavy bombers B-24 Liberator of 459th Bombardment Group, took off from its Italian base, Giulia Airfield, Puglia, on way to the target. Victor Sierra

A surreal landscape

The traditional good humor of airmen not failed neither from Vesuvius eruption and the destruction of an entire Bombardment Group on March 1944. And so on the nose of a B-25 of USAAF’s 340th Bomb Group appear a pin-up conveniently baptized “Vesuvianna” in front to an erupting Vesuvius. Sure as hell the phrase “She done me wrong”. Victor Sierra