German soldiers inspect a crash-landed B-17.
Near Liege/Belgium, August 17, 1943.

A fortress defeated

The B-24J Liberator serial number 44-10629 of the 451st Bombardment Group (Heavy), 49th Bomb Wing, USAAF’s 15th Air Force, base Castelluccio, Foggia Airfield Complex, Southern Italy, in flight over the Adriatic, November 7, 1944. This plane was lost over the Austria on December 11, 1944 with the death of the pilot, Lt. Charles Ralph Campbell, killed by a shell of AA fire. The rest of the crew was POW. Victor Sierra

Liberator from above

USAAF’s North American B-25C Mitchell, 82nd Bomb Squadron, 12th Bomb Group, and Martin Baltimore of No. 21 Squadron, South African Air Force, at this time, Spring 1943, both based in Tunisia, during a joint sortie against Axis forces in North Africa. In background, over the turret of the B-25, an escort fighter, likely a Curtiss P-40. Victor Sierra