The “Spauracchio” (Scarecrow) smoking six red stars in the pipe, emblem of 22nd Gruppo Caccia on the fuselage of one of his Macchi fighters veteran of Russian campaign (the stars smoked in the pipe) like indicted by the yellow band on fuselage. Near the tail plane the hole for introduction of the lifting’s rod of the tail. Victor Sierra

Scarecrow

A ground crewman of checking out the area in the back of engine of a fighter aircraft Aermacchi MC.200 “Saetta”of Italian Regia Aeronautica. The photo give a good view of motor cradle of this Italian fighter. Victor Sierra

MC.200's checking

A red flag for the “cleared for taxiing and take-off” to a Savoia-Marchetti S.79 torpedo bomber of an Italian Regia Aeronautica’s unit based at Rhodi Island, Aegean Front, end Summer 1940. The man bare-chested with the flag and the two officers wearing shorts and the comfortable military jacket knew like “Sahariana” (few years ago arised again from ladies and men’s fashion) give and idea of the climate of this side of Mediterranean Theater Operational. Victor Sierra