'Taranto. Antisub and torpedo boom and boom defence ship', Italy, 1943

Photograph by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), World War Two, Italy, 1943.

Defensive booms in Taranto Harbour. 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) sailed from Catania in Sicily, arriving at Taranto on the Italian mainland on 22 September 1943. Taranto was the scene of a devastating attack by British Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers on the Italian Navy in 1940.

From a photograph album containing 246 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).