Two Italian Air Force’s non-commissioned officers posing in font of a Regia Aeronautica’s LeO-451. Behind the former French Air Force’s bomber an Italian torpedo bomber Savoia-Marchetti SM-84. This photo was taken certainly in Italy. Victor Sierra

In front a former French bomber

One of the few, twelve according upon sources, former French medium bomber Lioré-et-Olivier LeO-451s seized by Italians on November 1942 and transferred in Italy. The plane was photographed on an Italian airfield (note a Fiat BR-20 bomber in background).The LeO-451s were assigned to a Regia Aeronautica’s bomber unit, the 51st Gruppo Bombardamento Terrestre, but the former Vichy’s bomber never entered on duty with the Italians. Victor Sierra



LeO-451 in Italy

Albanian front: two crew member of a Regia Aeronautica’s Caproni Ca.311 recce unit planning a mission over the Balkans. The officer on the left has over the flight jacket the insignia of the 87th Squadriglia, the ancient Gabriele D’Annunzio’s unit, 87th Squadriglia Aeroplani “La Serenissima” at this time equipped with the Ansaldo SVA airplane, which the poet led over Vienna on 9 August 1918. Victor Sierra