Other planes at the Grosseto airbase
Other planes at the Grosseto airbase
A Lockheed P-38 with collapsed nose wheel
A Lockheed P-38 with collapsed nose wheel
A German Focke-Wulf FW-190 accidently “wandered” in one day not realizing the base had changed from being a German base to an Allied base. Villafranca, Italy, Spring 1945.
A German Focke-Wulf FW-190 accidently “wandered” in one day not realizing the base had changed from being a German base to an Allied base. Villafranca, Italy, Spring 1945.
A German Messerschmitt BF 109 after it has made a forced landing on the beach.
There appears to be a tow bar running the length of this tug used to tow P47s and other aircraft around.
My father standing next to the tow tug.
Captain May posing in a German Officer’s uniform. I presume this was post VE day, but done the less I would have thought this was something that may have entailed some risk of having been mistaken for a real German officer and shot at.
