"Royal Air Force- Italy, the Balkans and South-east Europe, 1942-1945." Armourers fuzing a 4,000-lb HC bomb ("Cookie") at Kairouan West, Tunisia, before loading it into a Vickers Wellington Mark X of No. 205 Group RAF, during preparations for a night bombing raid on Salerno, Italy, prior to the Allied landings at there, (Operation AVALANCHE). Another airman carries winches aft of the bomb-bay in order to manoeuvre the bomb underneath the aircraft.