German soldiers near the burning wreck of an USAAF’s Lockheed P-38 Lighting down over Tunisia, Spring 1943. Unfortunately I have no other details about this event. Victor Sierra

Lighting down in Tunisia

“My Gal", Battle Number 08, Martin B-26B-45-MA Marauder, s/n 42-95753, one of the airplanes of the 320th Bombardment Group’s 441st Bomber Squadron, 441st BS, 320th BG, 12th Air Force approaching the target from French Mediterranean Coast, 4 August 1944. This day the target were the Ventimiglia Railroad Bridge West, on the border between Italy and France, reached by 12 B-26 of the the 320th BG, based in Sardinia, at Decimomannu airfield, but the target was missed. “My Gal" was lost, when the 320th BG were based in France, at Dijon, on 23 December 1944 during a mission in Germany, against gun positions at Breisach. The aircraft was hit by a Flak direct hit. All seven crew’s men KIA. Victor Sierra

Over Southern France

Douglas A-20 Havoc of the 15th Air Force’s 47th Bombardment Group taking off from Grosseto. Photo taken likely late Spring 1945 when the 47th were ready to replace its Havoc with A-26 Invader. The photo give and idea of the size of this large airport, built by the Italian Regia Aeronautica on Thirties, but updated with concrete runway by the German Luftwaffe, West of the town of Grosseto, on Southern Tuscany. Cleary visible the foothills of the Tuscany’s Apennines, East of the airport. Today the Grosseto Airport is a Main Operational Base of the Italian Air Force, base of the 4th Stormo “Amedo Duca d’Aosta”, first Italian air unit equipped with the Eurofighter Typhoon. Victor Sierra