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Re: Can you identify those ?

Posted by Gregory on Sun Dec 29, 2002 03:21:57 PM

In reply top Can you identify those ? posted by Laurent on Sun Dec 29, 2002 07:53:51 AM

http://www.wrecksonline.com/photo_gallery/photo_gallery_7.
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This is a tail view of Fiat BR.20 MM.21503, lost on 13 June 1940 after bombing the French naval aviation base at Hy?res. It belonged to 3rd Squadriglia of 43rd Group of 13th Stormo. Two of the five crew members were survived; the skipper was awarded a posthumous Gold Medal for Military valour.

It is worth noting that this is the sole surviving BR. 20 in the world. I cannot think that in the UK it would have been recovered for display in a national museum. Even an "as found" (RAFM Halifax) or "half and half" (Duxford Bf109E, future RAFM Hampden) restoration would be better than this slow, inexorable decay.

Gregory

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