 An emergency landing on an Italian airfield :Consolidated B-24 Liberator. 


 21/04/1944 


B-24

Manduria airfield, Apulia Southern Italy, 13 March 1944: left landing gear failure and subsequently crash land of “Miss Fury”, B-24H-5-CF Liberator s/n 41-29212 of 450th Bomb Group’s 721st Bomb Squadron, 47th Bomb Wing, USAAF’s 15th Air Force. Victor Sierra

Liberator’s crash land

 Pilot of 77 Squadron, 20th Fighter Group, Major Merle J. Gilbertson looks through a hole in the canopy of his  P-51 "Mustang" obtained during a raid on a German airfield Espershtedt in the German town of Gotha.  After a dogfight,not far from his aircraft  his opponent,a  German  Fw 190 exploded, debris damaging his  canopy.His eyes reflect the fatigue and stress of combat.He knows he's lucky to have escaped with his head still in one piece. 

