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German bomber wreck in south tuscany (2)
In a old book of local history I founded the story an air crash near Castiglion Fiorentino, Tuscany (Italy of course!) between 43 and 44, during the night.
People from the area says that it was a two engines german bomber With the help of a witness I went in the area and I recovered some avio aluminium and this wheel (without tire...at that time rubber was good for shoes !!!). The diameter was 30 cm, high 22 cm... During other metal detector sessions other parts were discovered. Do you have any idea of which kind of airplan we are talking about? Talking with witnesses of the period, many of them reported that it was a two engine bomber and the pilot was italian one, leutenant Corrado Caioli, who escaped from the war "borrowing" the german airplane and coming back home ( he was from Arezzo) just bailing from the airplane and dropping it on hill near his town. Do you have ever heard about an Italian pilot who escaped from imprisonment, stealing or corrupting someone, piloting a Luftwaffe airplane? The story seems strange, but too many people repeated it and telling the truth the pilot existed and he serviced Regia Aeronautica in the 18a Squadriglia, 27° Gruppo, 8° Stormo. Thanks in advance Andrea ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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