Tripoli, Castel Benito Airfield, in early 1940. Fighter aircraft Fiat CR.32s of 94th Squadriglia, 8th Gruppo Caccia of Italian Regia Aeronautica. Note the livery and markings in use before the war of Italy against France and United Kingdom. Now obsolescent and pending the replacement with the CR.42, after the oubreak of the hostilities the CR.32 was transferred at role of assault aircraft. Victor Sierra

In early 1940

After the end of short war against the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, April 1941, the Italians seized some aircraft of Yugoslav Royal Air Force like thirteen units of the advanced trainer Fizir FP-2. In Italian hands the Fizir FP-2s 
were used from May 1941 to June 1943 for fighting the partisan units in Montenegro and Albania. In the photo some of this planes in service with the 39th Squadriglia in Albania. Victor Sierra

Yugoslav aircrafts seized by Italians

The Italian liner Rex, lying on her side and on fire in Capodistria Bay, south of Trieste, on 10 September 1944 two days after the attack (8 September 1944) by RAF's Bristol Beaufighters of the Mediterranean Allied Coastal Air Force which capsized her. Pride of Italian commercial fleet before war, winning of Blue Riband on 1933, the Rex after the Italian armistice of 8 September 1943 was seized by Germans at Trieste. Victor Sierra