Sailors salute the submarine Finzi entering in the Italian Atlantic submarine base of Bordeaux (Betasom). After the Italian armistice, the base personnel joined the RSI. DVX

Betasom

An Italian fighter pilot making preparations for a mission with its Macchi MC.202 &quot;Folgore&quot;. Unit and location unkown, perhaps in Italy in autumn or winter (the dress of pilot and ground crew isn't of African theater). Speaking of the &quot;Folgore&quot;, Clive Caldwell, the leading Australian air ace officially credited with shooting down 28.5 enemy aircraft in over 300 operational sorties plus six probables and 15 damaged in North Africa and Pacific, said that the C.202 would have been superior to the Messerschmitt BF 109, had it been better equipped with weapons. Victor Sierra

Preparation for the mission

Italian officer introducing to two Luftwaffe pilots, which seem to like, the CR 42 fighter. Corpo Aereo Italiano, Belgium, 1940. DVX