The Italian steamship Aventino (former Austro-Hungarian Baron Bek), part of a convoy for troop transportation from Italy to Balkans, under antisubmarine escort of a Regia Aeronautica’s CRDA Cant-Z-501 flying boat. Adriatic Sea, March 1942. Victor Sierra

Steamship under escort

Dramatic very, very low pass over the sea of an Italian Air Force’s torpedo bomber S.79 a very short-distance from an Italian tanker likely in navigation from Italy to Libya. Victor Sierra

Very low pass

Sailors of a Spanish Nationalist ship watching a flying boat CRDA Cant-Z-501 of Aviación Legionaria patrolling the sea in front of the Spain’s Mediterranean cost. Ten exemplars of this large Italian single engine flying boat, transferred in Spain by Italian Government in support to Franco’s forces during the Spanish Civil War, were employed by 130th Escuadrilla based at Pollença, Mallorca. On January 1937, the aircrafts were transferred to a Spanish unit, the Grupo 2-G-62. Victor Sierra