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Re: ANR SM.79 losses 6th April 1944
Laurent thanks for your help . I found a list of 30 names of crewmen lost on the 6th. April and on the site you gave 4 of these names were for other dates/locations . Of the 26 Fliers remaining 8 are shown at Pergine, 9 at Valdarna, 7 at San Giovanni and 2 at San Donato all locations in the Valdarna area. The Osprey SM.79 booklet shows the captains of the shot down aircraft as Cap. Albini (Pergine), M.llo Daverio (Valdarno), S.Ten. Cusamo ( San Giovanni), and SM Fabbri (Valdarna) with two other aircraft returning with combat damage. The Osprey books shows SM Gaeta (lost a leg in July 4) as being in the Albini crew while another site gives S.ten Minardi, M.llo pi. Daverio, Av.sc Ferillo, M.llo Rodolfo and SM Magnelli as a crew. Thats all I can link at present, there are some book in Italian online about the ANR Torpedo SM.79s but I do not know if they contain loss listings,
Regards
Brian Bines
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