2-492-210 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Rubble in the main street, Palma, Majorca, Spain, Spanish Civil War, c1936. At the start of the war Majorca was a Nationalist stronghold. Republican forces made an amphibious landing on the island on 16 August 1936 but were forced to leave just under a month later, largely due to the Nationalists' superior air power, most of which was provided by Fascist Italy.