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Dramatic effects of a ground collision between an A-20 Havoc of USAAF’s 47th Bomb Group and a P-47 Thunderbolt, likely of USAAF’s 57th Fighter Group, Grosseto Airport, Tuscany, Italy, 1944 or Spring 1945. Victor Sierra

Ground collision

Two Liberators of USAAF’s 722nd Bomb Squadron, 450th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force, based at Manduria, Apulia, Southern Italy, abeam of the Italian coasts. The aircraft in foreground is the Consolidated B-24G-5-NT (S/N 42-78154) last block 5’s B-24G built, which was one of three 450th BG’s Liberators lost on July 3,1944 on a mission to bomb the oil storage depot at Giurgiu, Rumania, accomplished by thirty-four B-24s. Of the three bombers lost this day. two was surely shot down (included the 42-78154) by the Flak, the other probably by Flak. Victor Sierra