Battle of Athens, Greece, December 1944: Paras of the 2/5th Scottish Parachute Battalion, supported by tank, battle communist insurgents in the streets. With them are Greek gendarmes, one of whom, on the right, is wearing a German helmet.

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Athens street fighting

Searchlights pierce the night sky during an air-raid practice on Gibraltar, 20 November 1942. Victor Sierra

Searchlights

Vertical photographic-reconnaissance aerial of a road junction at Castelnuovo, east of Naples, Italy, after its obliteration by Vickers Wellingtons of No. 205 Group on 12 September 1943. This important section of the highway system was one of the main points through which the German Army was directing troops and materiel for counter-attacks against Allied forces at Salerno. Victor Sierra