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Sparviero (Italian: "Sparrowhawk") was an Italian aircraft carrier designed and built during World War II of the Regia Marina.She was originally the ocean liner MS Augustus built in 1926 for Navigazione Generale Italiana, but was transferred to the new Italian Line after the merger of Navigazione Generale Italiana with the Lloyd Sabaudo and the Cosulich Line.
Italo Balbo, notable Italian pilot, air marshal and military commander during the Second World War, who was shot down over Tobruk by friendly fire, an incident that Balbo's closest friends and family strongly believed was an assassination ordered by Mussolini. [58] Historians have generally accepted that this incident was an accident.
Italian aircraft carrier Sparviero; Operation Sparviero, the Italian Army contribution to ISAF in Kabul, Afghanistan; Pasotti F.9 Sparviero, an Italian four seat low wing touring aircraft; Pro.Mecc Sparviero, an Italian ultralight aircraft; Savoia-Marchetti S.M.79 Sparviero, a three-engined Italian medium bomber; Sparviero class patrol boat
A list of aircraft used by Italy during World War II until its capitulation to the Allies in September 1943. After that Italy was divided in two states, the Axis Italian Social Republic in the north and the Allied Kingdom of Italy in the south. Both countries had their own Air Force fitted with formerly used Italian aircraft and other nations ...
Italian aircraft carrier Sparviero This page was last edited on 15 February 2024, at 15:56 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
photo reconnaissance: 3 June 1950: 1956: 78 [167] [168] S: SAIMAN 202 — — liaison: 1938: 1946: n/a [1] Savoia-Marchetti SM.75 — Marsupiale (Marsupial) transport: 1937: 1946: n/a [1] [169] Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 — Sparviero (Sparrow-hawk) bomber: 2 September 1935: 1946: n/a [170] Savoia-Marchetti SM.82 — Marsupiale (Marsupial) bomber ...
The company became increasingly focused on the construction of military aircraft during the lead-up to, and throughout the majority of, World War II. In particular, the SM.79 Sparviero trimotor Italian medium bomber has been claimed by aviation authors Enzo Angelucci and Paolo Matricardi as being the best-known Italian aeroplane of the conflict ...
At the outbreak of World War II the Augustus and the Roma were laid up but both ships were subsequently taken over by the Italian Navy. Like her sister, the Augustus was converted into an aircraft carrier and renamed Falco and later Sparviero. Before work could be completed, the Kingdom of Italy signed an armistice in 1943, and both ships were ...