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2 unusual facts about Airship Italia


Airship Italia

Floatplane / ski aircraft Junkers F 13 ”Turku” K-SALG (from Aero OY / Finnair) pilot: Lihr

Heroic Deed Among the Ice

Heroic Deed Among the Ice details the mission of the ice-breaker Krasin to rescue the crashed crew of Umberto Nobile's arctic airship "Italia".


René Guilbaud

Guilbaud disappeared in the Barents Sea in June 1928, while piloting a Latham 47 flying boat in which Roald Amundsen was travelling to join the search the survivors of the crash of the airship Italia.


see also

History of Svalbard

Umberto Nobile's airship Italia crashed in 1928, resulting in the largest search in polar history.