Group photo for this RAF crew captured after a mistake landing on Pantelleria. Note in background the Ca 133 and the bunker-hangars. The British officers are doing an odd gesture, like they speak to a cellular phone... Is it a dsappoitment gesture, or has it any sort of meaning? DVX

British crew prisoner

This truck crafty armored of the XXXVI Black Brigade of Lucca &quot;N. Piacentini&quot; was painted of Italian tricolor cockades on the points hit by enemy bullets, probably in a combat against the partisans. It was a custom dating back to WWI to cover with tricolor cockade the enemy hits. DVX

Tricolor cockades on eemy bullets

The commander of 51st Stormo Caccia (Fighter Wing) of Italian Regia Aeronautica Co-Belligerent, Colonel Duilio Fanali, and his doggie Principessa (Princess). And with the name Principessa, the same Col. Fanali has baptized his fighter aircraft, a Macchi MC.202 “Folgore”. Born in 	1911, pilot of attack planes Breda 65 during the Spanish Civil War, during WW2 Fanali was a valiant pilot fighter. After the war, with the rank of General, was Deputy Commander of Allied Air Forces South Europe (NATO Afsouth) from 1961 to 1963 and commander of NATO Defence College from 1965 to 1966. From 28 February 1968 to 1st November 1971, the Lieutenant General Fanali was Chief of Staff Italian Air Force. The Gen. Fanali passed away on 27 August 1987. Victor Sierra