Fiat C.R.42, shows italys ineptitude

[Jon]

The Italian army may have been a burden at times, but if you speak with any RAF fighter pilots who served over Malta they all agree that Italian fighters and bombers were flown with skill and courage.

The CR42 was outdated, but you just try and out turn it in a Spitfire or Hurricane !!

[Schenck]

According to same ULTRA messages, German pilots from NSGr.7 considered Cr.42 vastly superior to Hs 126 and He 46 for purpose of attacking schooners and wooden motor boats in Adriatic, and regarding the armament and flying characteristics of all three aircraft.

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Schenck

According to same ULTRA messages, German pilots from NSGr.7 considered Cr.42 vastly superior to Hs 126 and He 46 for purpose of attacking schooners and wooden motor boats in Adriatic, and regarding the armament and flying characteristics of all three aircraft.

Could you tell us the serial numbers of those Ultra messages? I've read most of them from January 1944 to the end of the war and I must have missed the ones you mention.

[Schenck]

Hello Nick

My Word is not the best database, but I can pull out right now KV397 from DEFE3/36 (5 - 8 April 1944), and there should be two more in 3/38 or 3/37 referencing this one.

P.S. Is there any way I can contact you off board, maybe through your web site, I have a question regarding DEFE 3 and HW series, considering your experience using them?

[Dick Powers]

If the CD 42 "shoes Italy's ineptitude", what does the Maccchi MC 72 show?