A column of Italian soldiers on a street of occupied Ljubljana - capital of present day Slovenia.


A column

One of the first SM 81 landed on Palma the Maiorca. In front of the aircraft, among others, el Conde Rossi and Ramòn Franco, brother of Francisco Franco and nominal leader of the Nationalist air force in the Baleares. Note the high visibility b/w stripes of the SM 81, 8 years before the "invasion stripes" of the allied aircrafts over Normandy. DVX

El Conde Rossi with Ramòn Franco

S.mag. Agostino Settimo 16 cp. VI btg

Agostino Settimo, born in 1920, was an Italian parachutist who Fought in the battle of El-Alamein, and was took prisoner. He died last year.

(Pic colorized by T.Sorba)