Liberators over Italy

摘要

With reference to your article on Fifteenth Air Force B-17s in July's FlyPast, I believe that you have transposed two of the airfields on the map. Having served with 70 Squadron at Tortorella airfield, I can remember that Amendola lay to the northeast of us [Wierc preparing the feature we struggled to find accurate maps showing the locations of all bases in relation to each other ED]. By the end of the war, 205 Group RAF had eight squadrons in the Foggia area, all equipped with a modified version of the B-24J (Liberator Mk.Ⅵ): 40 and 104 on Foggia Main (not shown on the map), two South African Air Force squadrons at Celone, 37 and 70 Squadrons at Tortorella and 179 and 614PF at Amendola. Flying to Italy in a C430 Hercules in 1992 for the annual squadron reunion, we landed at Amendola, which had been developed into a permanent airfield for the Italian Air Force. The airfields at Foggia were in close proximity, with touching circuits.