An Italian Air Force’s raid over a Corsica’s airfield during the first day of the war. The first raid occurred on 15 June 1940 when six S.79 of the 9th Stormo, based at Viterbo, raided the Ghisonaccia airfield, losing an airplane, while five S.79 of the 46th Stormo, based at Pisa-San Giusto, escorted by nine G.50 of the 52nd Stormo’s 22nd Gruppo, bombed the Calvi harbor. Victor Sierra

Bombs over Corsica

An Italian trainer Nardi FN.305 warming its engine on a Northern Italy airfield. The civilian personnel around the aircraft and the absence of the unit’s marking state perhaps a fresh factory FN.305 likely during the fight test at Albenga airfield, Liguria, before the delivery to Regia Aeronautica. According the camouflage and the white cross on the rudder, the photo was taken during the war years. The FN.305, designed by the Nardi brothers and produced by Piaggio at Finale Ligure, was the basic advanced trainer of the Regia Aeronautica, an excellent airplane with retractable main landing gear and powered by a 185-HP Alfa Romeo 115, a de Havilland Gipsy Queen’s Italian version. Victor Sierra

Italian advanced trainer

Italian seaplanes Cant-Z-501 flying over the Gulf of Naples during the naval review in front to Adolf Hitler and the Italian State’s high rank, as the Duce Benito Mussolini and the King Victor Emmanuel, on the occasion of the Führer’s visit in Italy, May 1938. Victor Sierra