Desert Prelude: Air War in North Africa 1940-41
Fiat Cr.42 Aces of World War 2 (Aircraft of the Aces - Osprey)

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2/9-2010
Japanese ace Koshiro Yamashita modified.
Chinese pilot Cheng Hsiao-Yu modified.
Chinese pilot Louie Yim-Qun modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1940 modified.

1/9-2010
Italian ace Brunetto di Montegnacco modified.
Italian pilot Roberto Fassi modified.

31/8-2010
Slovak ace František Hanovec modified.
Slovak Air Arm use of the Avia B-534 and Bk-534 during the Second World War modified.

30/8-2010
Italian ace Ranieri Piccolomini modified.
Italian pilot Italo Bertinelli modified.
Italian pilot Roberto Lendaro modified.
Italian pilot Ernesto Pavan modified.
Italian pilot Martino Zannier modified.

27/8-2010
Gloster Gladiator use in 112 RAF Squadron modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in 33 RAF Squadron modified.

25/8-2010
Finnish ace Olavi Puro modified.
Commonwealth pilot Robert Seayears May modified.

24/8-2010
Commonwealth pilot John Coetzer modified.
Commonwealth pilot Gerald Le Mesurier modified.

23/8-2010
Italian pilot Giuseppe Scaglioni modified.
Italian pilot Corrado Patrizi modified.

20/8-2010
Commonwealth ace George Burges modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in Fighter Flights modified.
Gloster Gladiators and Fiat CR.42s over Malta 1940-42 modified.

19/8-2010
Sino-Japanese Air War 1940 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.

18/8-2010
Soviet ace Sergey Gritsevets modified.
Italian ace Lugi Baron modified.

17/8-2010
Italian pilot Trento Cecchi modified.
Italian pilot Natale Cima modified.

16/8-2010
Italian ace Ernesto Botto modified.
Italian ace Paolo Arcangeletti modified.
Italian pilot Ugo Corsi modified.

9/7-2010
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Yugoslavian ace Bozidar Petrovich modified.
Soviet ace Ivan Yeremenko modified.
Spanish ace Joaquín García-Morato modified.

8/7-2010
Sino-Japanese Air War 1940 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.

7/7-2010
Commonwealth pilot John Cockburn modified.
Commonwealth pilot John Filmer Marmont modified.
Commonwealth pilot Richard Smeeton modified.

6/7-2010
Soviet ace Vladimir Abramov modified.
Commonwealth pilot Denis Parnall modified.

5/7-2010
Italian pilot Annibale Ricotti modified.
Italian pilot Giuseppe Enrico Zuffi modified.
The Fiat CR.42 in Regia Aeronautica service modified.

2/7-2010
Commonwealth pilot Oliver Green modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in 112 RAF Squadron modified.

1/7-2010
Sino-Japanese Air War 1940 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.

30/6-2010
Italian pilot Giorgio Moretti modified.
Commonwealth ace Charles Casbolt modified.

29/6-2010
Italian ace Lugi Baron modified.
Italian ace Antonio Giardinà modified.

24/6-2010
Sino-Japanese Air War 1940 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.

23/6-2010
Italian ace Amedeo Guidi modified.
Italian pilot Ippolito Lalatta modified.

22/6-2010
Japanese ace Mitsugu Sawada modified.
Commonwealth ace Brian Boyle modified.

21/6-2010
Italian pilot Armando Moresi modified.
Italian pilot Giorgio Moretti modified.

17/6-2010
Chinese ace Liu Chi-Sheng modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1940 modified.

16/6-2010
Commonwealth ace Richard Acworth modified.
Italian pilot Gianfranco Perversi modified.

15/6-2010
Commonwealth ace John Scoular modified.
The Falco in the Battle of Britain modified.

14/6-2010
Commonwealth ace 'Pat' Pattle modified.
Commonwealth ace Peter Wykeham-Barnes modified.
Italian ace Franco Lucchini modified.
Italian ace Ernesto Botto modified.
Italian ace Antonio Larsimont Pergameni modified.
Italian ace Luigi Monti modified.
Italian ace Giuseppe Aurili modified.
Italian pilot Duilio Fanali modified.
Italian pilot Romolo Cantelli modified.
Italian pilot Carlo Romagnoli modified.
Italian pilot Franco Sarasino modified.
Italian pilot Giuseppe D’Agostinis modified.
Italian pilot Enzo Martissa modified.
Italian pilot Ruggero Caporali modified.
Italian pilot Lorenzo Migliorato modified.
Italian pilot Amleto Monterumici modified.

11/6-2010
Gloster Gladiator use in Fighter Flights modified.
Gloster Gladiators and Fiat CR.42s over Malta 1940-42 modified.

10/6-2010
Sino-Japanese Air War 1940 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.

9/6-2010
Commonwealth ace Charles Casbolt modified.
Commonwealth pilot William Whitty modified.

8/6-2010
Japanese ace Mitsugu Sawada modified.
Voluntary Swedish aviator Gunnar Färnström modified.

7/6-2010
Italian ace Antonio Larsimont Pergameni modified.
Italian ace Ezio Viglione Borghese modified.
Italian ace Pietro Bonfatti modified.
Italian ace Giuseppe Oblach modified.
Italian ace Alvaro Querci modified.
Italian pilot Valerio De Campo modified.
Italian pilot Enrico Dallari modified.
Italian pilot Sergio Stauble modified.
Italian pilot Antonio Valle modified.
Italian pilot Santo Gino modified.

3/6-2010
Sino-Japanese Air War 1940 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.

2/6-2010
Commonwealth ace Peter Wickham modified.
Italian ace Giuseppe Aurili modified.

1/6-2010
Commonwealth pilot Gordon Haywood modified.
Italian pilot Gianmario Zuccarini modified.

31/5-2010
Commonwealth ace Vincent 'Heimar' Stuckey modified.
Commonwealth pilot Charles Keighly-Peach modified.

27/5-2010
Sino-Japanese Air War 1940 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.

26/5-2010
Italian ace Gianmario Zuccarini modified.
Italian pilot Ferruccio Vosilla modified.

25/5-2010
Commonwealth ace Timothy Wildblood modified.
Commonwealth ace Basil Whall modified.

24/5-2010
Italian ace Franco Lucchini modified.
Italian pilot Giuseppe Bottà modified.

21/5-2010
Commonwealth pilot Oliver Green modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in 112 RAF Squadron modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in 80 RAF Squadron modified.

18/5-2010
Commonwealth ace Timothy Wildblood modified.
Italian ace Carlo Canella modified.

17/5-2010
Italian ace Franco Lucchini modified.
Italian pilot Renzo Maggini modified.
Italian pilot Giovanni Guiducci modified.
Italian pilot Giovanni Battista Ceoletta modified.

12/5-2010
Italian ace Luigi Monti modified.
Commonwealth pilot Leslie Smith modified.

6/5-2010
Sino-Japanese Air War 1940 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.

5/5-2010
Finnish ace Olavi Puro modified.
Commonwealth pilot Richard John Bennett modified.

4/5-2010
Finnish pilot Johannes Niemeier modified.
Polikarpov fighters in Finnish service modified.

3/5-2010
Italian ace Leonardo Ferrulli modified.
Italian ace Elio Miotto modified.
Italian pilot Vincenzo Vanni modified.
Italian pilot Lorenzo Migliorato modified.
Italian pilot Natale Fiorito modified.
Italian pilot Giovanni Casero modified.
Italian pilot Andrea Dalla Pasqua modified.

30/4-2010
Commonwealth ace George Burges modified.
Commonwealth ace William 'Timber' Woods modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in Fighter Flights modified.
Gloster Gladiators and Fiat CR.42s over Malta 1940-42 modified.

29/4-2010
Sino-Japanese Air War 1943 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.

28/4-2010
Giovanni Massimello has kindly provided me with the first names of more Italian pilots which I previously lacked.
Italian pilot Armando Marini modified.
Italian pilot Giuseppe Magli modified.
Italian pilot Sergio Lucato modified.
Italian pilot Vittorio Visconti modified.

27/4-2010
Commonwealth ace Timothy Wildblood modified.
Commonwealth pilot John Jones modified.

26/4-2010
Commonwealth ace Charles Keighly-Peach modified.
Commonwealth pilot Kenneth Keith modified.

23/4-2010
Gloster Gladiator use in 112 RAF Squadron modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in 80 RAF Squadron modified.

22/4-2010
Italian ace Osvaldo Bertolaccini modified.
Italian pilot Pasquale Faltoni modified.
Commonwealth ace 'Pat' Pattle modified.
Commonwealth ace Richard Acworth modified.
Commonwealth ace Leonard Cottingham modified.
Commonwealth ace Nigel Cullen modified.
Commonwealth ace Edward Hewett modified.
Commonwealth pilot Wanklyn Flower modified.

21/4-2010
Commonwealth pilot Richard Cleaver modified.
Chinese pilot Yang Yibai modified.

20/4-2010
Italian pilot Carlo Albertini modified.
Italian pilot Giorgio Di Giulio modified.

19/4-2010
Italian ace Claudio Solaro modified.
Italian ace Guido Bobba modified.
Italian pilot Tito Falconi modified.
Italian pilot Ottorino Fargnoli modified.
Italian pilot Ezio Maria Monti modified.
Italian pilot Germano Gasperoni modified.
Gloster Gladiators and Fiat CR.42s over Malta 1940-42 modified.
Known claims with the Fiat CR.42 Falco over Malta modified.

16/4-2010
Commonwealth ace George Burges modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in Fighter Flights modified.
Gloster Gladiators and Fiat CR.42s over Malta 1940-42 modified.

15/4-2010
Chinese pilot Yang Yibai added.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1940 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1939 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1938 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1937 modified.

14/4-2010
Italian ace Giuseppe Cenni modified.
Italian pilot Bernardino Serafini modified.
Italian pilot Alfonsi modified.

13/4-2010
Commonwealth ace Peter Wickham modified.
Commonwealth pilot John Jones modified.

12/4-2010
Italian ace Alessandro Bladelli modified.
Italian ace Elio Miotto modified.
Italian pilot Vincenzo Vanni modified.
Italian pilot Enzo Martissa modified.
Italian pilot Vittorio Romandini modified.
Italian pilot Mario Bandini modified.
Italian pilot Giuseppe Scaglioni modified.
Italian pilot Corrado Patrizi modified.

9/4-2010
70 years since the German invasion of Norway and Denmark.
Gloster Gladiator use in 33 RAF Squadron modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in 80 RAF Squadron modified.

8/4-2010
Sino-Japanese Air War 1945 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.

7/4-2010
Commonwealth ace Andrew Duncan modified.
Italian ace Alberto Veronese modified.
Italian pilot Vincenzo Forcheri modified.

6/4-2010
Giovanni Massimello has kindly provided me with the first names of several Italian pilots which I previously lacked.
Italian pilot Flaminio Bossi modified.
Italian pilot Cesare Ciapetti modified.
Italian pilot Giuseppe Desideri modified.
Italian pilot Faliero Gelli modified.
Italian pilot Giovanni Giannini modified.
Italian pilot Francesco Jadanza modified.
The Falco in the Battle of Britain modified.

1/4-2010
Italian ace GianLino Baschirotto modified.
Italian ace Clizio Nioi modified.
The Falco in the Battle of Britain modified.

31/3-2010
Commonwealth ace Peter Wickham modified.
Commonwealth pilot Denis Parnall modified.

29/3-2010
Commonwealth ace Jack Sewell modified.
Commonwealth pilot O. J. Roger Nicolls modified.
Italian ace Luciano Perdoni modified.

26/3-2010
Gloster Gladiator use in 112 RAF Squadron modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in Fighter Flights modified.

25/3-2010
Sino-Japanese Air War 1945 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.

24/3-2010
Italian ace Orlando Mandolini modified.
Italian pilot Armando Piragino modified.

23/3-2010
Commonwealth ace Brian Boyle modified.
Commonwealth ace Andrew Duncan modified.

22/3-2010
Italian pilot Giuseppe Aurili modified.
Italian pilot Renzo Maggini modified.

19/3-2010
Gloster Gladiator use in 33 RAF Squadron modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in 80 RAF Squadron modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in 112 RAF Squadron modified.

18/3-2010
Sino-Japanese Air War 1945 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.

17/3-2010
Finnish ace Olavi Puro modified.
Soviet pilot Vladimir Salomatin modified.

16/3-2010
Italian ace Alberto Spigaglia modified.
Italian pilot Roberto Steppi modified.

15/3-2010
Italian ace Pietro Bonfatti modified.
Italian ace Giulio Reiner modified.
Italian pilot Valerio De Campo modified.
Italian pilot Natale Cima modified.
Italian pilot Dario Magnabosco modified.

12/3-2010
Gloster Gladiator use in 112 RAF Squadron modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in Fighter Flights modified.

11/3-2010
Sino-Japanese Air War 1945 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.

10/3-2010
Italian ace Eber Giudici modified.
Gloster Gladiator II in Finnish service modified.

9/3-2010
Italian ace Armando François modified.
The Falco in the Battle of Britain modified.

8/3-2010
Commonwealth ace Charles Keighly-Peach modified.
Commonwealth pilot Kenneth Keith modified.
Italian ace Jacopo Frigerio modified.

2/3-2010
Italian ace Jacopo Frigerio modified.
Italian pilot Oscar Molinari modified.

1/3-2010
Italian ace Franco Lucchini modified.
Italian ace Angelo Savini modified.
Italian pilot Giovanni Battista Ceoletta modified.
Italian pilot Giovanni Guiducci modified.

24/2-2010
Italian ace Luigi Filippi modified.
Italian ace Jacopo Frigerio modified.

23/2-2010
Commonwealth ace Homer Cochrane modified.
The Falco in the Battle of Britain modified.

22/2-2010
Italian ace Elio Miotto modified.
Italian ace Luciano Perdoni modified.
Italian pilot Carlo Romagnoli modified.
Italian pilot Vincenzo Vanni modified.
Italian pilot Andrea Dalla Pasqua modified.
Italian pilot Lorenzo Migliorato modified.
Italian pilot Natale Fiorito modified.
Italian pilot Antonio Angeloni modified.
Italian pilot Roberto Steppi modified.

19/2-2010
Gloster Gladiator use in 33 RAF Squadron modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in 80 RAF Squadron modified.

18/2-2010
Sino-Japanese Air War 1945 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.

17/2-2010
Italian pilot Ottorino Fargnoli modified.
Italian pilot Roberto Fassi modified.

16/2-2010
Finnish ace Olavi Puro modified.
Soviet ace Dimitrii Yermakov modified.

12/2-2010
Sino-Japanese Air War 1945 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.

11/2-2010
Italian ace Pietro Bonfatti modified.
Italian pilot Angelo Mastragostino modified.

10/2-2010
Italian ace Pietro Bonfatti modified.
Italian pilot Nino Caselli modified.

9/2-2010
Commonwealth ace Brian Boyle modified.
Commonwealth ace Andrew Duncan modified.

8/2-2010
Italian pilot Luigi Bagato added.
Italian ace Franco Lucchini modified.
Italian ace Angelo Savini modified.
Italian ace Leonardo Ferrulli modified.
Italian pilot Giovanni Guiducci modified.
Italian pilot Neri De Benedetti modified.
Italian pilot Alfredo Sclavo modified.
Italian pilot Luigi Contarini modified.
Italian pilot Bruno Bortoletti modified.
Italian pilot Giovanni Battista Ceoletta modified.
Italian pilot Enrico Botti modified.
Italian pilot Ruggero Caporali modified.
Italian pilot Lorenzo Migliorato modified.
Italian pilot Andrea Dalla Pasqua modified.
Italian pilot Carlo Romagnoli modified.
Italian pilot Alessandro Rusconi modified.
Italian pilot Vincenzo Vanni modified.
Commonwealth ace Peter Wykeham-Barnes modified.
Commonwealth ace Peter Wickham modified.
Commonwealth ace Vernon Woodward modified.

5/2-2010
Commonwealth ace John Waters modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in 802 FAA Squadron modified.
Gloster Gladiators and Fiat CR.42s over Malta 1940-42 modified.

4/2-2010
Sino-Japanese Air War 1945 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.

3/2-2010
Soviet ace Dimitrii Yermakov modified.
Commonwealth pilot Robert Higson Smith modified.

2/2-2010
Commonwealth ace Gordon Steege modified.
Finnish ace Olavi Puro modified.

1/2-2010
Italian ace Amedeo Guidi modified.
Italian pilot Bernardino Serafini modified.
Italian pilot Giovanni Accorsi modified.
Italian pilot Roberto Marchi modified.

29/1-2010
Gloster Gladiator use in 112 RAF Squadron modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in Fighter Flights modified.

28/1-2010
Sino-Japanese Air War 1940 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.

27/1-2010
Soviet ace Andrey Danilov modified.
Soviet pilot Aleksey Artamonov modified.
Soviet pilot Leonid Butelin modified.

26/1-2010
Commonwealth pilot Anthony Nugent Young modified.
Commonwealth pilot Eldon Trollip modified.

25/1-2010
Commonwealth ace Gordon Steege modified.
Commonwealth ace Wilfred Arthur modified.
Commonwealth ace Alan Boyd modified.
Commonwealth pilot Charles Gaden modified.
Commonwealth pilot Alan Gatward modified.
Italian ace Antonio Larsimont Pergameni modified.
Italian ace Ezio Viglione Borghese modified.
Italian ace Pietro Bonfatti modified.
Italian ace Giulio Reiner modified.
Italian ace Giuseppe Oblach modified.
Italian pilot Valerio De Campo modified.
Italian pilot Sergio Stauble modified.
Italian pilot Enrico Dallari modified.
Italian pilot Franco Sarasino modified.
Italian pilot Otello Perotti modified.

22/1-2010
Gloster Gladiator use in 112 RAF Squadron modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in 80 RAF Squadron modified.

21/1-2010
Japanese ace Tateo Kato modified.
Japanese ace Toyoki Eto modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1941 modified.

20/1-2010
Italian ace Luigi Mariotti modified.
Italian ace Brunetto di Montegnacco modified.
Italian ace Corrado Ricci modified.
Italian pilot Carlo Romagnoli modified.
Italian pilot Bernardino Serafini modified.
Italian pilot Eugenio Salvi modified.
Italian pilot Virgilio Pongiluppi modified.

15/1-2010
Gloster Gladiator use in 33 RAF Squadron modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in 80 RAF Squadron modified.

14/1-2010
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1940 modified.

13/1-2010
Commonwealth ace Wilfred Arthur modified.
Italian pilot Renzo Maggini modified.

12/1-2010
Italian ace Luigi Mariotti modified.
Commonwealth pilot Richard James Abrahams modified.

11/1-2010
Commonwealth pilot Peter Townley Dowding modified.
Commonwealth pilot Cecil Hugh Livingstone Tulloch modified.

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