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Operation CORKSCREW: a Douglas Boston of No. 24 Squadron SAAF flies over the target as bombs explode on the Italian gun battery on Monte San Elmo (bottom), during the intense aerial bombardment of Pantelleria, prior to the Allied landings there. – See more at: http://ww2today.com/8th-june-1943-round-the-clock-bombing-pounds-pantelleria#sthash.3URkGIbB.dpuf