Three Italian Air Force’s NCOs standing up in front of a former French Air Force bomber Lioré-et-Olivier LeO-451 seized by Italians after the Vichy Government’s fall on November 1942. Location unknown. Victor Sierra

Italian NCOs and former French bomber

A Regia Aeronautica’s CRDA Cant-Z-506 “Airone” (Heron) maritime recce and bomber seaplane in flight over the Central Mediterranean. Victor Sierra

Flying over the Mediterranean

A LeO-451 former Vichy’Air Force with the white Italian cross on the fins. Photo taken perhaps still in France, prior of transfer in Italy. Note the original French roundels of the wings cancelled, but not again replaced by Italian Regia Aeronautica insignias. Beyond a certain numbers of aircrafts find on some Southern France’s airfield, the Italians troops captured 39 LeO-451 in SNCASE factory in Ambérieu-en-Bugey (Lyon). This planes were requested on 1943 to Italian Regia Aeronautica by German Luftwaffe in exchange of a lot of Dewoitine D-520s fighters. Victor Sierra