Italian Forces

Reading the map

Archivio Centrale dello Stato

Albanian front: two crew member of a Regia Aeronautica’s Caproni Ca.311 recce unit planning a mission over the Balkans. The officer on the left has over the flight jacket the insignia of the 87th Squadriglia, the ancient Gabriele D’Annunzio’s unit, 87th Squadriglia Aeroplani “La Serenissima” at this time equipped with the Ansaldo SVA airplane, which the poet led over Vienna on 9 August 1918. Victor Sierra