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2 unusual facts about Carlo Negri


Carlo Negri

This Italian Air Force Wing is based at Galatina, the same airbase from which Negri had taken off for his fateful flight.

However, this "move" was not made for merely political reasons: the Stormo had very strong ties with Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (and therefore with the House of Savoy) although Amedeo had left the command of the unit by the late 1930s to take up the place of Governor General of Italian East Africa and had died the year before as a POW of the British in Kenya.



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