Personnel of a Spanish Aviacion Nacional’s bomber unit based on the Balearics and equipped with the Savoia-Marchetti S.81s dispatched by Mussolini’s Government for supporting the Franco and others generals uprising against the Spanish Republican Government. Although Italians, the majority of men wear Spanish uniforms, insofar as officially “Spanish” with Spanish (forged) papers and Spanish (forged) names. On the plane’s fin an emblem with Minnie launching a bomb. Obviously at the time the personages of American cartoons are still permitted by Italian Fascist Government. Victor Sierra

With Spanish uniforms

Divers of the special units of the Italian navy. Actually they could be too special firefighters for emergency in the harbors. DVX

Uomini Gamma

Three captured Italian generals and their staff, after the fall of Bardia, Libya, were brought from the Western Desert by air, an here they arriving at Cairo Airport, February 1941. The general on the center of the photo is the Lieutenant General Annibale Bergonzoli nicknamed "Electric Whiskers", commander of XXIII Corpo d’Armata of Italian Tenth Army. During the offensive into Egypt on 1940 of Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, was the commander of the defenses of Bardia. After the fall of city, 5 January 1941, further to Operation Compass, the British Offensive, at the end of 1940, led by General Richard O'Connor, which forced the Italians to retreat into Cyrenaica, Bergonzoli reached Tobruk but on February 7, 1941, surrendered to Australian forces. Victor Sierra