A stick of 1,000-lb bombs dropped by a Consolidated Liberator B Mark VI of RAF 70th Squadron, hit another Liberator B Mark VI, KK320, 'V' Victor, of RAF 37th Squadron, flying underneath during a daylight raid on the shipbuilding yards at Monfalcone, Trieste, Italy, 1945. 'V' Victor was flying at 12,000 feet when it suffered from 'friendly fire?. One bomb struck the port inner engine and sheared off the propeller and the second went through the fuselage just behind the flight deck, narrowly missing the top-turret gunner, P. Off. Walter Lewis and leaving a large hole in the fuselage behind Sqn Ldr L. Saxby, the pilot. Although the bombs had not fallen far enough to become 'live' the perspex of Wally Lewis's mid-upper turret was completely ripped away. Lewis later described the incident: 'I was looking up and saw a bomb leave an aircraft above us. I saw it getting bigger and bigger as it came towards us. The next thing I realised was that the fuselage had been hit near the flight deck and I seemed to be pushed down in front of my seat. The perspex above me was taken clean off. All that happened to me was a bump on the shoulder.' The only injury was to Cliff Hurst the radio operator who was injured by flying metal pieces and left unconscious for a while although later on, he worked on his radio sets on the way home. GLOBAL: THE HEROIC actions of the brave allied airmen who risked their lives in WW2 have been brought to life in stunning colour. Absorbing 80-year-old photos show the brutal reality that many pilots and their crew faced day to day in startling clarity. Striking images include a mechanic loading huge 500-pound bombs on an American bomber; tense paratroopers with the RAF bracing themselves in the fuselage of an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley aircraft; and a wounded US gunner being hauled from an aircraft after suffering serious injuries mid-flight. Another incredible photo shows a concerned crowd gathering around the wreckage of a Spitfire. Mediadrumimages/@colo