One of the few modern guns in the Italian Army's arsenal, the Obice (meaning howitzer) da 75/18. The gun was well-thought of. IIRC, a somewhat more cropped version of this same  photo appears in the wartime US Intelligence manual on Italian weaponry. 


Italian Obice da 75/18

An Italian bomber Cant-Z-1007bis shot down by a 808 Squadron’s Fairey Fulmar of British aircraft carrier Ark Royal off Sardinian coast on 9 January 1941. Note the crew gathered outside waiting for relief. This plane was part of ten bomber’s formation took off from Sardinia for a raid against the British Royal Navy’s Force H and was intercepted by the 808 Squadrons Fulmar on patrol. Two Italian bombers was shot down, both by the Fulmar of Lieutenant Commander Rupert Claude Tillard (pilot) and Lieutenant Mark Somerville (observer) this latter nephew of James Somerville, head of Force H. Victor Sierra

A victory of an Ark Royal’s fighter

Posted on another forum, and noted as being taken in Rome, 1943. I added it here because it is a nice clear shot of a rare 38-A equipped with a folding bayonet.