![image showing Fire and fury: B-25s are pictured flying past Mount Vesuvius in Italy as lava and ash spews from the top of the volcano. The eruption killed 57 as it destroyed the village of San Sebastiano and San Giorg in March 1944 while Allied forces were battling for supremacy in the skies. [962x751]](c57cc4c5-b17e-56ca-95ef-86d3d8d11341.jpg)
Fire and fury: B-25s are pictured flying past Mount Vesuvius in Italy as lava and ash spews from the top of the volcano. The eruption killed 57 as it destroyed the village of San Sebastiano and San Giorg in March 1944 while Allied forces were battling for supremacy in the skies. [962x751]
BoinkBoinkEtAliae on December 14th, 2017 at 20:36 UTC »
Wow it's even more amazing in color. You lose a lot of the intensity when it's only black and white.
hstnfld on December 14th, 2017 at 21:31 UTC »
If I saw this in a movie...I would have called BS. This is stunning!
pgcooldad on December 15th, 2017 at 00:20 UTC »
My father, who's still alive, was born and lived in Guardia Piemontese which is on the coast of the Tyrrhenian sea north of Sicily in the province of Calabria. He was 13 years old when this picture was taken, and he tells us (through the eyes of a child) that when the bombers left Sicily to bomb Axis controlled Europe, they would follow the Italian coastline north and there would be so many of them that they blocked the sun.