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24 August 1944. Death of Carlo Emanuele Buscaglia (b. 22 September 1915). One of the most famous Italian WWII combat pilots. After the 8 September 1943 armistice he fought alongside the Allies but died from injuries after crashing his Martin Baltimore near Naples.

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August 11, 1941, Battle of the Mediterranean

Nine Ju 87s raided Malta, attacking the Ta Qali area and Grand Harbour, causing damage to warehouses and civilian homes.

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May 14, 1944 was a dark day for the allied Italian Air Force.

Italian CANT 1007 bombers, now transport planes, dropped aid to the Yugoslav partisans in Kolašin.

On the way home to Galeta's Italian air base, they did not meet up with their fighter escort.

They were intercepted over the Adriatic by the JG 27 squadron armed with Me 109 planes. 9 Italian transports were shot down and 26 airmen were killed after that CANT 1007 was only used for night missions.

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Fiat G.50 Freccia (Arrow), North Africa, date unknown. I'll bet these guys were glad the worst thing they had to worry about was getting sun burnt, as opposed to their unlucky colleagues on the Eastern Front

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An SM79 forced to ditch. The canopy, opened to allow the crew to exit, is poorly visible.

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Ground Crews push back an Italian ambulance aircraft Caproni Ca.133 in 1941.

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Line of reconnaissance IMAM Ro.37 Lince

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Catalog Nomenclator Caproni Ca135Bis 1942.

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Aeronautical hedonism.

📽 showing the #Fiat G.50 #Freccia fighters of the #Regia_Aeronáutica operating in the Mediterranean and North African theater of operations.

Restored and colorized by the YouTube account Archives Reloaded, to which I only changed the music

#WW2 #SGM

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The prototype of the Reggiane Re.2000 MM.408 at Guidonia in its new camouflage coloring.

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The stern catapult of the Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto with a Reggiane Re2000 fighter prepared for launch with the battleship Roma in the background. September 30, 1942.

The catapulted Re2000s were used similarly to the Hurricanes embarked on British CAM ships, requiring either to moor or land on land.

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Fiat Cmasa RS 14

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The Fiat RS14 , also known as the Fiat CMASA RS14 , was a twin - engined long-range maritime reconnaissance floatplane , designed by the Italian company FIAT and produced in the CMASA factories in Marina di Pisa in the 1940s .

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FIAT CR-32 Regia Aeronautica

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