Strike For Gela, Sicily, 11th June 1943 by David Pentland. (C) SPC49 the tracer lighting up the

the tracer lighting up the fuselage of his P-61

Senna retired 7 laps from the end

off Flores

The last remaining units of the fascist Italian Air Force attempt to engage B25s from the 340th Bomb Group who have successfully destroyed a vital enemy rail bridge in the strategic Brenner Pass

the 72-foot Vosper MTBs were among the fastest and most successful ever built

Strike For Gela, Sicily, 11th June 1943 by David Pentland. (C) SPC49 the tracer lighting up theDHM1048C. Strike For Gela, Sicily, 11th June 1943 by David Pentland. Tiger I tanks of 2 Kompanie Schwere Panzer Abteilung 504, attached to Panzer Division Herman Goring, launch their attack on the main US 7th Army landing beach at Gela, on the first day of Operation Husky. Despite the fact that the Herman Goring troops were untried in battle it was only the devastating effect of allied naval gunfire that stopped them reaching and probably destroying