Italian AB 41 armored cars in the Balkan Peninsula, 1943.
(Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-526-2323-25A)

AB 41 Convoy

An Italian maritime reconnaissance and bombardment float plane CRDA Cant-Z-506 Airone of 287th Squadriglia on docking of an Southern Italy’s air harbor, perhaps Taranto. The plane ha the dark livery of the late war. Victor Sierra

On docking

Italian biplane fighters on Scarpanto, Aegean. In foreground a Fiat CR.42 of 164th Squadriglia, in background a Fiat CR.32 of 163th Squadriglia, 1941. Replaced the obsolescent CR.32s with the CR.42, with the two Squadriglie was formed the 161st Gruppo Autonomo Caccia (Autonomous Fighter Group) equipped with forty-two aircrafts, all CR.42s, with auxiliary tank to raise the range to 1,000 km. From the basis of Scarpanto and Gadurrà, this planes. Equipped with bombs under the wings, was employed also to support the conquest of Crete’s Island, from 20 to 31 May 1941, raiding Hierapetra, Kastellion and Arkalokori and strafing the Heraklion’s airfield and troops at Mokkos. Victor Sierra