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Verbatim caption for both photos is below. I would tend to believe there were more L-4 operational losses than combat losses, but I don't know. Is there any record of how many L-4's and crew were lost in combat? Did they normally recover wreckage?
Note 2nd photo, front seat solo.
Air Artillery, Italy
Wreckages at airbase of Amer. Piper Cub observation planes shot down while flying over Allied territory in the Cassino corridor of battle during searches for German gun emplacements & enemy troops so that the Allies could attack their positions.
Location: Italy
Date taken: February 1944
Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White
Note 2nd photo, front seat solo.
Air Artillery, Italy
Wreckages at airbase of Amer. Piper Cub observation planes shot down while flying over Allied territory in the Cassino corridor of battle during searches for German gun emplacements & enemy troops so that the Allies could attack their positions.
Location: Italy
Date taken: February 1944
Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White
