Some exemplars of Caproni Ca.309 “Ghibli”, captured in North Africa, were employed by Allied forces for secondary roles like the liaison. The plane of the photo is a Ca.309 captured and employed by No 3 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force for light transport and liaison. Photo taken in Egypt, 1943. Victor Sierra

An “Australian Ghibli”

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

A lost trophy 

Caption of the photo AWM 010895: Two members of No 3 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, prepare a cross for the grave of Squadron Leader P. R. Heath who was shot down in air combat on Nov 19, 1940, when four of the Squadron's Gladiator aircraft were attacked east of Rabia by eighteen Italian CR-42 fighters. Victor Sierra