The Legionary Air Force (Italian: Aviazione Legionaria, Spanish: Aviación Legionaria) was an expeditionary corps from the Italian Royal Air Force that...
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cities, the Aviazione Legionaria dropped 16,558 bombs and inflicted numerous casualties. By the end of the conflict the Aviazione Legionaria had logged...
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Guernica was bombed by Nazi Germany's Condor Legion and Fascist Italy's Aviazione Legionaria, in one of the first aerial bombings. The attack inspired Pablo Picasso's...
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the Nazi German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria, under the code name Operation Rügen. The town was being used as...
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Italian all-metal single-engine, low-wing monoplane that was used by Aviazione Legionaria during the Spanish Civil War and Regia Aeronautica in the first half...
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German and Italian expeditionary forces, the Condor Legion and the Aviazione Legionaria. At first, the Spanish Republican Air Force had the control of great...
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repair them within two days. Furthermore, the Condor Legion and the Aviazione Legionaria started to bomb and destroy the pontoon bridges each day, although...
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Italy supplied machine guns, artillery, aircraft, tankettes, the Aviazione Legionaria, and the Corpo Truppe Volontarie (CTV) to the Nationalist cause....
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at the behest of Francisco Franco's nationalist government by the Aviazione Legionaria of its Fascist Italian allies. Carried out in the last days of the...
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from the Spanish Republican Air Force Condor Legion of Nazi Germany Aviazione Legionaria of Fascist Italy At the end of the war, the air force was reorganised...
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Spanish Nationalist and German Luftwaffe pilots as members of the Aviazione Legionaria ("Aviation Legion"). This deployment took place from July 1936 to...
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received its baptism of fire when a number were operated by the Aviazione Legionaria during the Spanish Civil War; the BR-20 came to form the backbone...
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Republican held province of Biscay. As part of the offensive the Aviazione Legionaria and the Legion Condor bombed Durango, a town of 10,000 inhabitants...
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Bombing of the city by the Italian Aviazione Legionaria (1937) during the Spanish Civil War...
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during the Spanish Civil War in 1938. On 31 May 1938, the Italian Aviazione Legionaria bombed the town of Granollers. There were between 100 and 224 civilian...
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bombing (also called terror bombing), and personally ordered the Aviazione Legionaria to conduct a "continuous bombing of Barcelona diluted in time". Between...
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Roman legion, the basic military unit of the ancient Roman army Aviazione Legionaria, Italian air force during the Spanish Civil War A legion is the regional...
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Vincenzo Velardi (category Aviazione Legionaria personnel)
general during the Spanish Civil War, in which he commanded the Aviazione Legionaria, and World War II. He was born in Macerata on 10 September 1894....
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aircraft. The Fiat biplane proved to be effective in the theatre, the Aviazione Legionaria claiming 60 (48 confirmed) modern Russian Tupolev SB bombers, which...
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aerial bombing by Adolf Hitler's Condor Legion and Benito Mussolini's Aviazione Legionaria Traditionalist plaque at Leitza in honour of Saint Michael, a Basque...
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commerce and destroy the Republican morale, so he authorized the Aviazione Legionaria and the Legion Condor to undertake indiscriminate bombings of the...
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reconnaissance aircraft. SM.81s also fought in the Spanish Civil War with the Aviazione Legionaria and were among the first aircraft sent by the fascist powers to airlift...
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squadrons. The SM.79 saw action for the first time when serving with the Aviazione Legionaria, an Italian unit sent to assist Franco's Nationalist forces during...
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Aeronautica pilots and ground crew were known as "Aviation Legion" (Aviazione Legionaria) and the contingent of submariners as Submarine Legion (Sottomarini...
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Bruno Mussolini (category Aviazione Legionaria personnel)
Bruno Mussolini (22 April 1918 – 7 August 1941) was the son of Prime Minister of Italy Benito Mussolini and Mussolini's second wife Rachele, the nephew...
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towards Catalonia with the support of the Legion Condor and the Aviazione Legionaria. By the end of February the nationalists had reached the outskirts...
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Mario Bernasconi (general) (category Aviazione Legionaria personnel)
founded along with Italo Balbo) during the interwar period, the Aviazione Legionaria during the Spanish Civil War, and the 5th Air Fleet in North Africa...
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Aeronautica (the Italian Air Force) and with its expeditionary arm, the Aviazione Legionaria, in Spain, where they compared well in speed and manoeuvrability...
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despite the steady bombings of the Nazi Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria, as well as the intentional flooding by releasing water from dams...
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Francisco Franco from Nazi Germany (Condor Legion) and Fascist Italy (Aviazione Legionaria) gave the rebels the upper hand in airpower over Spain. The first...
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