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3 unusual facts about Mario Fucini


Mario Fucini

This was followed by a May stint in gunnery school in Pisa.

On 16 February 1917, he brought back his flaming Voisin to a landing at Monfalcone; he received a Bronze Medal for Military Valor for saving the craft and himself.

He would remain in the Italian air force after World War I, rising through squadron commands to head up the Castiglione Fighter School.



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