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Old 10-08-2005, 06:54 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Name the Italian Air Marshal shot down by his own gunners over Tobruk in 1940. (Hint: he was a pre-war aviator who gained fame with long-distance flights)
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Does anybody give any creedence to the assertion by his wife that it was an assassination ordered by Mussolini?
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I think its likely, Italo Balbo was well known to have held the belief that Italy should have been at the side of Britain rather than Germany and his public comments certainly did not go down to well with Mussolini.

The claim that is was an error to shoot down one of your aircrafts that you knew were returning from a routine patrol kind of stinks a bit.

My views on Mussolini are well know, he was a coward in the bigger picture and had more faces than the town hall clock, siding with whoever threatened him rather than stand up for himself, but this kind of assassination was right up his street.
 
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1.Questions must be about any aspect of WWII. This can include the origins of the war and the aftermath.

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