Crashed aircraft

Crashed aircraft

Top centre a b/w photograph of a pile of unidentified aircraft wreckage with two airmen looking on at the bottom left. To the left bushes.

Bottom left a colour photograph of a crashed Wellington with nose to the left side. The cockpit roof is open and propellers on the right are bent. A man with a side cap is partially visible looking on at the bottom.

Bottom right a b/w photograph of the front section of crashed B-24 41-29254. The nose section shows considerable damage. Two possible un-exploded bombs lay below the engine on the left.

Identification kindly provided by Gianluca Mazzanti of the Archeologi dell’Aria research group.

Two b/w and one colour photograph mounted on an album page

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