Relaxing moments for pilots of an Italian fighter unit, somewhere in Italy, equipped with MC.202s. One pilot take a photo, while two others refreshing oneself sitting on a deck chair. Victor Sierra

Relax moment

To avoid bad luck a group of Italian fighter pilots, before the mission, playing with the mascot of their Squadriglia (perhaps 374th Squadriglia) which salute “romanamente” (the Fascist salute) with the right leg. The fighter is a Macchi MC.202. Victor Sierra

To avoid bad luck

One of the first Macchi MC.205Vs &quot;Veltro” delivered to an operational unit of the Italian Regia Aeronautica. This airplane is a MC.205 First Series (two 12,7 mm machine guns on the nose, two 7,7 mm in the wing) of 51st Stormo based at Capoterra, Sardinia, May 1943. Victor Sierra