A waist gunner wearing oxygen mask, goggles & sheep, skin high altitude clothing while manning his 50-cal. machine gun in an USAAF’s B-17 "Flying Fortress” during a bombing mission, after takeoff at Sahara desert airdrome. Algeria 1943. Victor Sierra

Waist gunner

Two U.S. airmen arming their F4U Corsair aircraft with rockets

Corsair rockets

An USAAF’s 12th Air Force ground crew putting bombs on a sling to be hoisted up into racks in the bomb bay of a B-17 “Flying Fortress” in preparation for bombing mission at Sahara desert airdrome. 1943. Victor Sierra