Wounded evacuation from the front to Italy with a Regia Aeronautica’s Savoia-Marchetti S.82 “Marsupiale” transport aircraft. Note the waist 7.7mm gun and many patches used for repairs the splinters holes in the fuselage. Victor Sierra 

Italian wounded evacuation

A multitude of patches cover the holes caused by the splinters of Allied air-to-ground attacks at this Italian Air Force’s Savoia-Marchetti SM.82 of 618th Squadriglia. Victor Sierra

A multitude of patches

Giulino di Mezzegra/Italy, April 28, 1945. After communist italian partisans captivated Benizo Mussolini and his concubine Clara Petacci both are shot according to martial law after a sweeping trial. It's told that ''Claretta'' tried to protect Mussolini from the bullets with her own body. The bodies were brought to Milan the next day, violated and hanged upside down as a public display.