A British Army ambulance pulls up in front of a line of Royal Air Force’s Douglas Dakota Mark IIIs at Catania Airport, Sicily, date unknown. Victor Sierra

Ambulance at Catania Airport

Mechanics from No. 1 Squadron SAAF prepare to fit a replacement propeller on a Supermarine Spitfire Mark IXE of No. 111 Squadron RAF, parked by a vineyard on the edge of the airfield at Pachino, Sicily, July-August 1943. Moved to Malta in June 1943 to support the invasion of Sicily, No 111 Squadron switched through Italy with the advancing Allied ground forces and remained there until the end of the war, after which it moved to Austria. 269 aircraft were claimed shot down by No 111, making the squadron one of the top RAF scorers for the war. Victor Sierra

Spitfire in a vineyard

British Army casualties on stretchers wait to be loaded into a Lockheed Lodestar ambulance aircraft of the South African Air Force, at Catania Airport, Sicily, for evacuation to hospitals in North Africa. Date perhaps Summer 1943. Victor Sierra