Italian AB 41 armored vehicles, Balkan Peninsula, 1943.

Italian Armor

An abandoned Italian tank surveyed by an American infantryman in North Africa.

Abandoned M13/40

The only exemplar of AVIS C.4, an Italian aircraft really unknown, the Avis C.4, a monoplane powered by one 280 HP Hirth HM.508D and a cabin for three people with possibility of transport of a stretcher. The plane was designed and built by AVIS (AVio Industrie Stabiensi), a society of Caproni Group, based near Naples, in reply to a requirement of 1938 for an light liaison airplane to be used mainly in the Italian East Africa. Although the winner was the IMAM Ro.63, however built in few exemplars, the C.4 was ordered in six units, but obly the prototype was built. The plane flew at Capodichino, the Naples airport, on June 1940, but the test’s result were unsatisfactory. The aircraft was transferred at Rome, Littorio Airfield, and finally at the Guidonia’s Flight Test Center. The last flight of AVIS C.4 date back to November 1942. The final fate of this forgotten airplane is unknown. Victor Sierra