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Raid the Sicily

An American bomber Boeing B-17 took off from North Africa raiding Gerbini, location of an important Axis air base, 1943. Victor Sierra

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The airfield being bombed is Catania Fontanarossa not very distant from the sea as in the picture. The photo caption "Gerbini A/D" is wrong. The Gerbini airfield complex was, notoriously, located some 15 kms inland west of Catania. Red 21

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