Keywords: snow outdoor Lot-11579-3: North African Campaign, Battle of Tunisia, November 1942 to May 1943. Enemy air equipment and installations took a heavy pounding from bombers of the U.S. Army Air Forces and they pursued Marshal Erwin Rommel’s retreating Afrika Korps through Libya and Tripoli to the Tunisian coast. Shown: Wrecked Axis aircraft, victims of bombing and strafing, lie piled up on Castel Benito airdrome, awaiting arrival of expert salvage crews to denude the wreckage of usable parts, the remainder to be turned into scrap. Photographed by Nick Parrino, 1943. U.S. Army Air Forces Photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/06/10). Lot-11579-3: North African Campaign, Battle of Tunisia, November 1942 to May 1943. Enemy air equipment and installations took a heavy pounding from bombers of the U.S. Army Air Forces and they pursued Marshal Erwin Rommel’s retreating Afrika Korps through Libya and Tripoli to the Tunisian coast. Shown: Wrecked Axis aircraft, victims of bombing and strafing, lie piled up on Castel Benito airdrome, awaiting arrival of expert salvage crews to denude the wreckage of usable parts, the remainder to be turned into scrap. Photographed by Nick Parrino, 1943. U.S. Army Air Forces Photograph. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2016/06/10). |