Giuseppe Torcasio was in the Italian Divisional Artillery (regg. di artigleria) WW II North Africa.

Giuseppe Torcasio WW II North Africa

North Africa, late 1942: an Italian fighter Macchi MC.202 “Folgore” (Lightning) abandoned after a forced landing wheels up and engine still running and here found by the advancing Allied troops already partially stripped by the souvenirs hunters. Notice an ammunitions belt and one of the fuselage’s fuels tank scattered on the ground. The MC.202 is an aircraft of the 91st Squadriglia, 10th Gruppo, 4th Stormo “Francesco Baracca”. Victor Sierra

An unlucky “Folgore”

Il Duce inspecting the Milizia Forestale training school near Rieti, about 1941. Note the semi-automatic rifles Beretta mod. 18-30. DVX