Italian Forces

Wreck at Foggia

57th Fighter Group

Foggia airfield, Southern Italy, 1943. Allied soldiers, likely on board on a former Italian truck commandeered, passing near an Italian fighter Fiat CR.42’s wreck. The wreck’s status suggest an airplane destroyed by a ground loop (note the upper wing’s status) and subsequently redressed and moved to borders field (the large stones aren’t obviously of a runway!). The CR.42’s wing are still the Fascist emblem; therefore the plane was phased out before the Fascism’s fall (25 July 1943). The photo was taken by a serviceman of the USAAF’s 57th Fighter Group just the arrival at Foggia. Victor Sierra