I assume its in North Africa. I found it in my father's stuff. Would that be coptic church with the cross on the roof? http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/%3Ctable%20style=%22width:auto;%22%3E%3Ctr%3E%3Ctd%3E%3Ca%20href=%22https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/DETHFN5Z2EWWijpRdD33whv26e2GzflPsfUgR8gUy5I?feat=embedwebsite%22%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_vylQVqmm2l4/SKctSS5WvxI/AAAAAAAAAnY/Ed6VRjfzAm4/s144/Bailey%20Bridge%20and%20.jpg%22%20height=%22104%22%20width=%22144%22%20/%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/td%3E%3C/tr%3E%3Ctr%3E%3Ctd%20style=%22font-family:arial,sans-serif;%20font-size:11px;%20text-align:right%22%3EFrom%20%3Ca%20href=%22https://picasaweb.google.com/horsfield.steve/AlanHorsfieldSenior?authkey=Gv1sRgCJSq74Dw4ue5pgE&feat=embedwebsite%22%3EAlan%20Horsfield%20Senior%3C/a%3E%3C/td%3E%3C/tr%3E%3C/table%3E https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/sbC5IoAn28sIwHomPdakPxv26e2GzflPsfUgR8gUy5I?feat=directlink
I see... a group of vehicles and mountains in background, but no cross? mind you my eyes ain't what they were Could be Tunisia? Any Idea what unit your Father was with?
Hi the picture I see has Venafro under it...isn't that in Italy? Correct. Venafro is due east of Cassino according to my atlas. Possible incorrect photograph posted. Regards Tom
Should have been https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/DETHFN5Z2EWWijpRdD33whv26e2GzflPsfUgR8gUy5I?feat=directlink
Should have been https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/DETHFN5Z2EWWijpRdD33whv26e2GzflPsfUgR8gUy5I?feat=directlink Not many rivers in North Africa and I don't remember bailey bridges in any book I've read. Could be Sicily or Italy? Possibly Tunisia?
Now I can see the chuch. Looking at the cross, it is Christian and more than likely, given the location, Coptic. Egypt is also a possibility. Regards Tom
Was not the first Bailey Bridge built in Tunisia? it is more likely to be there than Egypt unless the photo was taken latter in the war
The scene looks Italian to me and the church a little Byzantine. Southern Italy did have an orthodox period. The houses don't look North African either.
i was thinking Bizzerta ? my eyes are crap but is that the sea beyond the church, and the river being some sort of estuary? if it is Italy, could this be Garigliano / volturno crossing ?
The photographer went out to Egypt with 601 sqdn April to June 1942, they flew, he sailed round the cape. His recorded dates match up with the dates for the sqdn. Thereafter 59 RSU, NWAAF and mid 44 to autumn 45 in 285 wing, thence CMF, 135 MU, HE, 10 S of TT, this latter immediate post war period was spent at Peta Teqvah in Palestine which is also consistent with the movements of 285 wing.
Your colleagues in the North Africa Theatre don't recognize it. I had assumed that the church was insufficiently Italian in appearance. https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/DETHFN5Z2EWWijpRdD33whv26e2GzflPsfUgR8gUy5I?feat=directlink The photographer had gone across North Africa, up through Malta and Sicily and remained in Italy till the end of the war.
Hi Guys, I think that the picture was taken in Italy. The church architecture was almost common in northern Italy so I searched for a baroque church north of Po river and this is, undoubtedly, the result: File:Santa Maria della neve church, Boara Pisani (Padua).jpg - Wikimedia Commons The place is Boara Pisani, near Padua in this web page the same bridge but from the opposite side 2008:n02:copertina [Athesis.News.it] in the attached picture from Google earth in the red circle Santa Maria della Neve church, in the yellow rectangle the aprrox site of bridge and, in the yellow circle the church from Athesis website picture regards