An aerial convoy of Italian transport aircrafts flying over the Mediterranean en route from Italy to North Africa (or vice versa) for troop’s transfer and supplies delivery view by the machine gun’s side station of a Savoia-Marchetti SM.82, perhaps on 1942 or 1943. The aircrafts of the photo are SM.82s except the plane on the center which is a SM.75. Note the slow flight altitude for avoid the enemy fighters. In this missions, very dangerous because the great Allied air superiority, the transport units of Regia Aeronautica and Luftwaffe was heavily depleted. Victor Sierra

Aerial convoy

Recovery of a Regia Aeronautica’s fighter Macchi MC.200 belly landed on an unidentified Italian airport with the use of a Carro Soccorso Velivoli (aircraft recovery vehicle) with 1,500 kg capacity crane. This vehicle, developed on the truck Ceirano 47 C’s chassis, was employed by Regia Aeronautica also for handling of aircraft’s engines. Victor Sierra

MC.200’s recovery

On a Sicilian airfield on Italian Air Force’s Savoia-Marchetti SM.82 “Marsupiale” of 602nd Squadriglia taking on board troops for the North African front in hopes of not doing a “bad encounter”. Victor Sierra