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Re: Captured crew of Italian plane 16.Nov.41 Ostfront
The aircraft lost on 16 november 1941 was a Ca.311 of the 119a Sq. Osservazione Aerea. The crew - ten. pil. Giuseppe Lepri, ten. oss. RE Fortunato Rosini and av. sc. mot. Savio Bonifacio - after being hit by the anti aircraft fire, parachuted and became POW: only Bonifacio survived, came back to Italy and soldiered on in the post war Aeronautica Militare.
Please note that the history of the Regia Aeronautica written by Nino Arena is unfortunately not reliable. Italian historians don't use it.
After researching the history of the R. Aeronautica on the East front for many year, collecting pictures, documents, flight books ect., I'm now writing the text. But the way is still long...
ciao
Gianandrea
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