Five SM 79 in formation. Note the different color schemes on the aircraft.

Formation of SM 79's

P-38G (transformed E version ) captured by the Italians at Capoterra, Sardinia. Regia Aeronautica chief test pilot Lt .Col. Angelo Tondi  claimed to have downed  one B-24 and one B-17 (“Bonnie Sue”) using this plane .


“Italian P-38”

The fuselage of an Italian bomber Savoia-Marchetti S.79 on a transporter for the salvage of the planes landed in the Libyan desert, 1940. Likely it’s an aircraft landed behind the English lines and captured, but I’m not sure because I have difficulty to identify the transporter and the tractor. Somebody is able? Thanks in advance. Victor Sierra