Another picture of an Italian ground-attack aircraft Breda Ba.65 destroyed during British offensive of December 1940. At this date the Ba.65 in activity in North Africa were only twenty-five. The last Ba.65 again operational was lost during the British offensive of February 1941
in Cyrenaica. VictorSierra

Breda 65 wrecked

Established at the end February 1939, for promotion of sales abroad and propaganda purposes, leader maggiore pilota Mario Bonzano, the 1st Gruppo Sperimentale (First Test Group) with 12 of 45 Fiat G.50 "Freccia" pre-series aircraft (with enclosed cockpit and sliding canopy), was moved in Spain and assigned at Aviación Legionaria (the expeditionary corps of the Regia Aeronautica set up in 1936 to provide support to Francisco Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War). The G.50s, transferred in Spain via ship, re-assembled at Reus, entered in operational service by mid March 1939 at Escalona airport, 70 km SW from Madrid, under the insigna of XXIIIrd Gruppo "Asso di Bastoni".  Despite a sustained flying activity on many airports, also for propaganda purposes, the G.50s seized only an opportunity to sight enemies planes, some Polikarpov I-16, but without contacts. The G.50 was tested in flight by Spanish ace Garcia Morato wich declared the Fiat monoplane unisatisfactory. After the end of Civil War, the G.50s were gifted to Spanish Air Force, but their service was extremely brief: after many accidents the Spanish G.50s  were grounded. VictorSierra.

G.50 over Spain

RSI troops resisted fiercily in the Rome defence, fighting in the Anzio and Nettuno fronts, along Canale Mussolini, at Castel di Decima. Later, the Germans left Rome during the june 1-2 1944 and only Italian troops remained in rearguard, fronting some short but hard clashes in the Capital outskirts. But a casual fight too erupted in the full center of the city, between the last RSI troops rethreating, and the first American troops entering, june 4 1944. We're in via Nazionale, in the full center of Rome, and this is the result of the Sherman 75mm gun vs the Camionetta Sahariana 20mm. I'm curious to know the RSI unit: paratroopers, X Mas, or PAI could had been the camionetta owners. DVX