“Falcon” Mussolini. Italian fighters of the Second World War: Andrey Haruk

“Rook” – “La Cucaracha” (“Tarakan”) – such a nickname in honor of the popular song was received by the illustrious Italian air group, who fought in Spain, where our pilots had to encounter Mussolini fighters, the most massive of which was the Fiat Cr. 32 Chirri (“Cricket”). At first, the “Stalinist falcons” did not consider “cockroaches” and “crickets” by a serious threat-the fascist biplanes were not only inferior to our I-15 and I-16 fighters, but they were not able to catch up with even the SB bombers. The next generation of the next generation of Macchi MC. 200 Saetta (“Lightning”), who arrived on the Eastern Front already in August 1941 as part of Corpo Di SPEDILANOO in Russia, turned out to be much more dangerous enemy. (Donetsk) and Stalingrad, having made more than 6,000 sorties, having recorded 88 shot down Soviet aircraft to the combat account.

Author
Haruk Andrey Ivanovich
Publisher
Eksmo, 2012
Series
War and we. Aviation collection
Genre
Military equipment