A Messerschmitt Bf-109G-6 of Repubblica Sociale’s Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana (Republican National Air Force) hid under the trees of Lombard moor, at Cascina Vaga, Winter 1944-1945. Note the Italian tricolor on the fin and under the cockpit added to German Balkenkreuz on fuselage. Victor Sierra

Winter on the moor

An Italian seaplane Cant-Z-506B on the harbor of Cephalonia after the landing of an small airborne troop’s contingent, on April 30, 1941. The plane is one of the five seaplanes took off from Brindisi for the mission at Cephalonia followed by three transport aircrafts SM.82 with sixty parachutists. On May 1, 1941, two Cant-Z-506Bs landed at Zante soon after occupied by troops arrive on board of some boats. The Greek Ionian Island were occupied by Infantry Division “Acqui” of Italian Army. After the Armistice of 8 September 1943, the entire Italian Cephalonia’s garrison refused the surrender to Germans and was attacked and overwhelmed by Nazi troops with some 3,000 dead. And from 14 to 22 September 1943 over 5,000 of survivors were slaughtered by Germans. Victor Sierra

Italian seaplane at Cephalonia

A fighter Fiat G.50bs of 353rd Squadriglia, 20°th Gruppo, 56th Stormo on Maldegen Airport, Belgium, during the unlucky Italian participation to final phases of Battle of England. Winter 1940-1941. Victor Sierra