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To use an RAF expression, some poor pilot “pranged his bloody kite.”
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Looking out at our surroundings from the cockpit.
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While we were in southern Italy somebody “scrounged up” a civilian aircraft. – “CATO”.
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Getting CATO ready for a flight.
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Aerial view from CATO.
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Italian roads with their winding curves provided many choke points.
Hairpin curves like this gave large military vehicles lots of trouble and slowed convoys to a crawl. Note steepness of hill.
Mountainous roads were little more than a series of hairpin curves and switchbacks.
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Local village taken from CATO.
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A landing strip somewhere.