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

Joint mission

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

A fortress defeated

Corsica, early 1944: the North American B-25J-1 Serial Number 43-27784, 487th Bombardment Squadron, 340th Bombardment Group, USAAF, on approach to Alesani Airfield (Alesan according to many American sources). Victor Sierra