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

The end of a famous ocean liner

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

The semovente M 15/42 antiaereo quadrinato was an original Italian project and the first multiple AA gun mounted over a tank chassis. The German Wiberlwinds were largely inspired by the M15 AA, following it of about a year. In fact the project of this AA tank started at the beginning of 1943, when the complete air superiority by the Allies required a faster and closer AA support for the Italian armored forces.
It was a M 15/42 tank armed with a torretta quadrinata (multiple gun turret) of 4 AA 20 mm Scotti - Isotta Fraschini mguns. But as usual in Italian military equipment during WW2, the program took time and a few prototipes had been built before the armistice. Captured by the Germans, their formula largely inspired the famous Wiberlwind German AA tank. DVX