A pilot of No 3 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force in the cockpit of Macchi MC.205 "Veltro" captured in Sicily (see previous description). Victor Sierra

In the cockpit of "Veltro"

A Macchi MC.205V "Veltro" captured intact by Australians on Pachino Airfield, in Sicily, Summer 1943. The aircraft is a MC.205 of First Series without the cannons in the wing, but armed with two 12,7mm machine guns in engine cowling syncronized with the propeller and two 7,7mm machine guns on the wings. Victor Sierra

A good prey

From 3 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force History, "3 Squadron at War", a note written early April, 1941 (during the Squadron's first retreat in front of Rommel): "To the great regret of the Squadron, an Italian CR42 captured in January 1941 at Martuba, which had been flown by several pilots in the intervening months, had to be destroyed. It had been the intention to preserve this trophy of war and later have it taken back to Australia for presentation to the War Museum in Canberra". Obviously the CR.42 quoted in the note is the plane of the photograph. Note the Savoia’s emblem in the white cross on the rudder removed by a souvenir’s hunter. Victor Sierra