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Re: Luftwaffe Loss ...a P38 Lightning
Further reading of Marco Mattioli's book on the P38 in Italian Service.
After the Germans took over Guidonia air base on the 10th September 1943 "So the Centro Sperimentale's Lightning ended its career with the Regia Aeronautica Italiana by passing to the German Luftwaffe, and met its end during the Allied bombing actions upon Guidonia on the 1st and 3rd of June 1944. The Italian Lightning , caught by surprise outside its hangar was totally destroyed and its wreckage were picked up and piled up on a corner south of the air base alongside the scrap heap of German aircraft and other prottypes previously destroyed." Alex |
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