 Guiseppe on the right North Africa WW II Seen here playing a diatonic button accordion which he used to entertain the troops.


 Guiseppe on the right North Africa WW II

A Macchi MC.202 of the Italian Air Force’s 181st Gruppo burning after an Allied devastating raid against Reggio Calabria airfield (notice in background a MC.200 apparently not touched). The photo is dated 13 July 1943, but more likely is referred to 11 July 1943 raid which destroyed completely Reggio Calabria airfield and a great number of aircraft therein deployed. After the Sicily’s fall the 161st Gruppo (Squadriglie 162nd, 163nd and 164th) moved to North and at the date of 8 September 1943, announcement of the Italy’s armistice, it were deployed in Umbria Perugia and Castiglione del Lago airfields. Victor Sierra

Reggio Calabria, July 1943

The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law Count Galeazzo Ciano just landed with an Ala Littoria’s Savoia-Marchetti S.74 at Rome-Littorio after its first official visit in Germany from 21 to 23 October 1936. During this mission, which included a visit to German Air Ministry where was received by Hermann Göring, Ciano met at Berlin the Third Reich’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Konstantin von Neurath and, at Berchtesgaden Adolf Hitler. The Ciano’s visit in Germany prepared the announcement, by the Duce at Milan on 1st November 1936, the born of the Axis Rome-Berlin. Victor Sierra