I-ULIA, the Air Marshal Italo Balbo’s personal Storch, also the first plane of this type registered in Italy. The I-ULIA, Fieseler Flugzeugbau Fi.156C-1 Storch, WrkN 719, date of registration in the Italian Civil Aeronautical Registry January 20, 1939, was a personal gift by the Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring to Balbo after the gift to same Göring of a Venus statue found at Leptis Magna, Cyrenaica. The registration I-ULIA is referred to Giuliana Balbo, the Balbo’s daughter, Ulia for his family. One year after the Balbo’s death, June 28, 1940, on July 1941 the I-ULIA was cancelled from the Aeronautical Civil Registry an switched to Regia Aeronautica which during the war employed some Storch. Victor Sierra

The Balbo's Storch

Ciano acclaimed by the Spanish people during his visit in Spain in 1939.
A way to thank Italy for the decisive support given to the Nationalist Spain during the civil war. DVX

Parade of Galeazzo Ciano in Euskadi 4

An Italian bomber Fiat BR.20M landing at Cameri Airfield, near Novara, Piedmont, NW Italy, June 1940, few days after the Italy’s entry in the WW2. The plane is likely a BR.20M of the 43rd Stormo on June 10, 1940, Italy’s entry in the war, based at Cameri, leader Colonnello Pilota Luigi Questa. Victor Sierra