The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Grottalgie Airfield, Italy. 1943. RAAF, Italians, RAF and Commando personnel all cooperate in filling a petrol tanker from drums. Supplies were flown by air from Sicily for use in our fighter bomber aircraft now operating in Italy.
Grottalgie Airfield, Italy. 1943. RAAF, Italians, RAF and Commando personnel all cooperate in filling a petrol tanker from drums. Supplies were flown by air from Sicily for use in our fighter bomber a
Grottalgie Airfield, Italy. 1943. RAAF, Italians, RAF and Commando personnel all cooperate in filling a petrol tanker from drums. The men pouring petrol into a larger drum. Supplies were flown by air
Grottalgie Airfield, Italy. 1943. Italian airmen at Grottalgie airfield in Italy, now in Allied hands, watch RAAF airmen of No. 3 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF, unload supplies from a transport aircraft f
Grottalgie Airfield, Italy. 1943. RAAF ground crew of No. 3 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF, in Italy unload supplies flown across from Sicily while Italian airmen watch.
Sicily, Italy. July 1943. A petrol tanker on fire on an Italian airfield blazing furiously. Note the 44 gallon drums in the foreground.
Grottalgie Airfield, Italy. 1943. RAAF airmen sort out rations brought from the island of Sicily to the Italian mainland from where No. 3 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF, is now operating.
