Flying Fortress over Messina
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, perhaps of 97th Bomb Group, USAAF, bombing Messina, Sicily, summer 1943. Messina, ahead the homonymous Streets, great stratetegic target, note on the right its harbor, was heavily bombed in preparation of Allied invasion of Sicily, Operation Husky, and of the crossing of Straits for passage of Allied forces in continental Italy. Victor Sierra
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