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Desert Prelude: Early clashes
Desert Prelude: Operation Compass
Fiat CR.42 Aces of World War 2 (Aircraft of the Aces - Osprey)
Gladiator vs CR.42 Falco (Duel - Osprey)

21/12-2018
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Italian ace Franco Lucchini modified.
Italian ace Luciano Perdoni modified.
Italian pilot Paolo Berti modified.
Italian pilot Piero Buttazzi modified.

20/12-2018
Japanese pilot Soichi Okamoto added.
Soviet ace Petr Agafonov modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

19/12-2018
Sino-Japanese Air War 1942 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1945 modified.

18/12-2018
Japanese pilot Akira Ishikawa modified.
Soviet ace Grigory Boychenko modified.
Soviet ace Vasily Smirnov modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

17/12-2018
Spanish Civil War 1936 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

14/12-2018
Sino-Japanese Air War 1942 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1945 modified.

13/12-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1939 modified.

12/12-2018
Soviet ace Dmitrii Medvedev modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

11/12-2018
Sino-Japanese Air War 1942 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1945 modified.

10/12-2018
Soviet ace Mikhail Feoktistov added.
Soviet ace Vasily Smirnov modified.

4/12-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1939 modified.

3/12-2018
Soviet ace Grigory Boychenko modified.
Soviet ace Vasily Smirnov modified.
Japanese ace Akira Ishikawa modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

22/11-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1939 modified.

21/11-2018
Japanese ace Tokuya Sudo modified.
Soviet ace Iosef Geibo modified.
Soviet ace Grigory Boychenko modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

20/11-2018
Italian ace Giuseppe Cenni modified.
Spanish Civil War 1936 modified.

19/11-2018
Soviet ace Ivan Pavlov modified.
Italian pilot Gioacchino Bissoli modified.

16/11-2018
Soviet ace Iosef Geibo modified.
Soviet ace Grigory Boychenko modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

15/11-2018
Italian ace Vittorio Minguzzi modified.
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.

14/11-2018
Soviet ace Petr Agafonov modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

13/11-2018
Gloster Gladiator use in 1 SAAF Squadron modified.
Soviet pilot M. F. Savtchenko modified.

12/11-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

7/11-2018
Italian ace Franco Lucchini modified.
Italian ace Mario Veronesi modified.

6/11-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

5/11-2018
Soviet ace Fedor Skripchenko added.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

2/11-2018
German ace Erwin Sawallisch modified.
Soviet ace Aleksandr Sokolov modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in 1 SAAF Squadron modified.

1/11-2018
Soviet ace Vasily Smirnov modified.
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

31/10-2018
German ace Erwin Sawallisch modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in 1 SAAF Squadron modified.

30/10-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

29/10-2018
Soviet ace Aleksandr Sokolov added.
Gloster Gladiator use in 1 SAAF Squadron modified.

26/10-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

25/10-2018
Soviet ace Efim Fomin added.
Gloster Gladiator use in 1 SAAF Squadron modified.

24/10-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

23/10-2018
Italian ace Giorgio Solaroli di Briona modified.
Soviet ace Mikhail Mudrov modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in 1 SAAF Squadron modified.

22/10-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

19/10-2018
Soviet ace Konstantin Kiryanov modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in 1 SAAF Squadron modified.

18/10-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

17/10-2018
Commonwealth ace Brian Boyle modified.
Commonwealth pilot Andrew Duncan modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in 1 SAAF Squadron modified.
Gloster Gladiator use in 3 SAAF Squadron modified.

16/10-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

15/10-2018
Soviet ace Nikolai Svitenko added.
Gloster Gladiator use in 72 Squadron modified.

12/10-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

11/10-2018
Commonwealth ace Robin Pare modified.
Commonwealth pilot Andrew Duncan modified.
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

10/10-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

9/10-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

8/10-2018
Italian ace Carlo Canella modified.
Italian ace Mario Visintini modified.
Italian pilot Luciano Cacciavillani modified.
Italian pilot Giovanni Levi modified.
Italian pilot Antonio Raffi modified.
Soviet ace Vasily Smirnov modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

5/10-2018
Soviet ace Ivan Yeremenko modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

4/10-2018
Soviet ace Alexandr Yakimov modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

3/10-2018
Italian ace Carlo Miani modified.
Commonwealth ace Andrew Duncan modified.

2/10-2018
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.

1/10-2018
Soviet ace Vyacheslav Sirotin added.
Soviet ace Aleksey Smirnov modified.
Soviet ace Adam Amkoladze modified.
Soviet ace Mikhail Ivanov modified.
Soviet ace Sergei Mironov modified.

21/9-2018
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.

20/9-2018
Sino-Japanese Air War 1939 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1942 modified.
Soviet ace Vasily Smirnov modified.

19/9-2018
Soviet ace Grigory Boychenko modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

17/9-2018
Commonwealth ace John Hewitson modified.
Italian ace Teresio Martinoli modified.
Italian ace Massimo Salvatore modified.
Italian ace Alvaro Querci modified.

14/9-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1939 modified.

13/9-2018
Soviet ace Grigory Boychenko modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

12/9-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1939 modified.

11/9-2018
Soviet ace Ivan Podgorny modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

10/9-2018
Soviet ace Ivan Yeremenko modified.
Soviet ace Mikhail Yakushin modified.
Soviet ace Anatoly Serov modified.
Soviet ace Pavel Agafonov modified.
Soviet ace Sergey Gritsevets modified.
Soviet pilot Yemel’yan Kondrat modified.
Soviet pilot Leonid Rybkin modified.
Soviet pilot Anton Kovalevskii modified.
Soviet pilot Nikolai Petrukhin modified.
Spanish ace Julio Salvador Díaz-Benjumea modified.
Spanish ace Joaquín García Morato y Castaño modified.
Spanish ace Andrés García La Calle modified.
Spanish pilot José Redondo Martín modified.
US ace Harold Dahl modified.
US pilot James Allison modified.
US pilot Ben Leider modified.
Yugoslavian ace Bozidar Petrovich modified.
Italian ace Andrea Zotti modified.
Italian ace Enrico Degli Incerti modified.
Italian ace Alfonso Mattei modified.
Italian ace Giuseppe Ruzzin modified.
Italian ace Giuseppe Mottet modified.
Italian ace Brunetto di Montegnacco modified.
Italian ace Guido Presel modified.
Italian ace Corrado Ricci modified.
Italian pilot Silvio Costigliolo modified.
Spanish Civil War 1936 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

7/9-2018
Soviet ace Grigory Boychenko modified.
Japanese pilot Akira Ishikawa modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

6/9-2018
Soviet ace Ivan Yeremenko modified.
Soviet ace Mikhail Yakushin modified.
Soviet ace Anatoly Serov modified.
Soviet pilot Yevgeniy Antonov modified.
Soviet pilot Leonid Rybkin modified.
US ace Harold Dahl modified.
Yugoslavian ace Bozidar Petrovich modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

5/9-2018
Soviet ace Grigory Boychenko modified.
Soviet ace Iosef Geibo modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

4/9-2018
Soviet pilot Leonid Rybkin modified.
Soviet pilot Viktor Kuznetsov modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

3/9-2018
Soviet ace Nikolay Sobolev added.
Soviet ace Yevgeniy Stepanov modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

31/8-2018
Soviet ace Stefan Voitenko modified.
Soviet pilot Leonid Rybkin modified.

30/8-2018
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.
Soviet ace Grigory Boychenko modified.
Soviet ace Iosef Geibo modified.

29/8-2018
Soviet ace Ivan Podgorny added.
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.

28/8-2018
Soviet ace Konstantin Korshunov modified.
Soviet ace Petr Pokryshev modified.

27/8-2018
Soviet ace Vasiliy Kashtanov modified.
Soviet pilot Nikolay Shepetov modified.

24/8-2018
Soviet ace Stefan Voitenko added.
Soviet ace Boris Maslov modified.

23/8-2018
Soviet ace Viktor Ivanov modified.
Soviet ace Vladimir Abramov modified.

22/8-2018
Soviet ace Grigory Boychenko added.
Italian ace Luigi Filippi modified.

21/8-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

20/8-2018
Soviet ace Vasily Volovikov added.
Soviet ace Petr Biskup modified.

17/8-2018
Soviet ace Fedor Milaev added.
Italian pilot Luigi Modesti modified.

16/8-2018
Italian ace Natalino Stabile modified.
Italian ace Renato Talamini modified.

15/8-2018
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1942 modified.

14/8-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

13/8-2018
Italian ace Luigi Iellici modified.
Italian pilot Piero Buttazzi modified.

6/7-2018
It's time for some summer holiday! Updates and email replies will be slow during this period.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1942 modified.

5/7-2018
Italian ace Enrico Degli Incerti modified.
Italian ace Armando François modified.

4/7-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

3/7-2018
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1942 modified.

2/7-2018
Italian ace GianLino Baschirotto modified.
Italian ace Natalino Stabile modified.

29/6-2018
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1942 modified.

28/6-2018
Italian ace Bruno Alessandrini modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

27/6-2018
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1942 modified.

26/6-2018
Italian ace Bruno Alessandrini modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

25/6-2018
Italian ace Luigi Mariotti modified.
Italian ace Giulio Reiner modified.
Italian ace Giovanni Barcaro modified.

21/6-2018
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1942 modified.

20/6-2018
Italian ace Bruno Alessandrini modified.
Italian ace Corrado Ricci modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

19/6-2018
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1942 modified.

18/6-2018
Italian ace Bruno Alessandrini modified.
Italian ace Armando François modified.
Italian ace Giuseppe Aurili modified.
Italian ace Corrado Ricci modified.
Italian ace Brunetto di Montegnacco modified.
Spanish ace Joaquín García Morato modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

13/6-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

12/6-2018
Last Sunday, it was 20 years since I uploaded the first version of this site!
Italian ace Teresio Martinoli modified.
Italian ace Alvaro Querci modified.
Italian pilot Salvatore Mechelli modified.

11/6-2018
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1942 modified.

8/6-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

1/6-2018
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1942 modified.

29/5-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

28/5-2018
Italian ace Bruno Alessandrini modified.
Soviet ace Vasilii Doroshin modified.

22/5-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

21/5-2018
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1942 modified.

18/5-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

17/5-2018
Commonwealth ace Sidney Linnard modified.
Commonwealth ace Andrew Duncan modified.

16/5-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

15/5-2018
Sino-Japanese Air War 1944 modified.
Sino-Japanese Air War 1942 modified.

9/5-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

8/5-2018
Soviet ace Vasilii Doroshin modified.
Soviet ace Petr Sgibnev modified.

7/5-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

4/5-2018
Soviet ace Vasilii Adonkin modified.
Soviet ace Konstantin Babii modified.

2/5-2018
Spanish pilot Ladislao Duarte Espés modified.
Spanish pilot Romulo Negrin Mijoilar modified.
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.

27/4-2018
Soviet ace Dmitri Amosov modified.
Soviet ace Vasilii Adonkin modified.

24/4-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

23/4-2018
Soviet ace Dmitri Amosov modified.
Soviet ace Vasilii Adonkin modified.
Soviet pilot Peter Samokhin modified.
Soviet pilot Dmitry Semenikhin modified.

20/4-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

16/4-2018
Soviet ace Pavel Gavrilov modified.
Soviet ace Dmitri Amosov modified.

13/4-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

12/4-2018
Soviet ace Pavel Gavrilov modified.
Soviet ace Dmitri Amosov modified.

11/4-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

10/4-2018
Soviet ace Pavel Gavrilov modified.
Soviet ace Dmitri Amosov modified.

9/4-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

6/4-2018
Soviet ace Pavel Gavrilov modified.
Soviet ace Stepan Ivanov modified.

5/4-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

4/4-2018
Commonwealth pilot Gerald Le Mesurier modified.
Soviet ace Pavel Gavrilov modified.

3/4-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

28/3-2018
Commonwealth pilot Gerald Le Mesurier modified.
Soviet ace Pavel Gavrilov modified.

27/3-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

26/3-2018
Italian ace Ugo Drago modified.
Italian ace Natalino Stabile modified.
Italian ace Luigi Mariotti’s modified.
Italian pilot Maurizio Nicolis di Robilant modified.

13/3-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

12/3-2018
Soviet ace Vasilii Adonkin modified.
Soviet ace Vasilii Doroshin modified.
Soviet ace Petr Sgibnev modified.

9/3-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

8/3-2018
Soviet ace Konstantin Babii modified.
Soviet ace Petr Sgibnev modified.

6/3-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

5/3-2018
Soviet ace Vasilii Doroshin modified.
Soviet ace Konstantin Babii modified.
Soviet ace Petr Sgibnev modified.

2/3-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

28/2-2018
Soviet ace Anatoly Serov modified.
Soviet ace Mikhail Yakushin modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

27/2-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

26/2-2018
German pilot Werner Palm modified.
Spanish Civil War 1936 modified.

23/2-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

22/2-2018
Italian ace Amleto Monterumici modified.
Italian ace Ranieri Piccolomini modified.

20/2-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

19/2-2018
Italian ace Mario Visintini modified.
Italian pilot Corrado Santoro modified.
Italian pilot Vittorio Barberis modified.
German ace Harro Harder modified.
Spanish ace Chindasvinto González García modified.
Spanish ace Vicente Castillo Monzó modified.
Spanish ace Miguel Zambudio Martínez modified.
Spanish pilot Antonio Britz Martínez modified.
Spanish pilot Jaime Torn Roca modified.
Spanish pilot Nicomedes Calvo Aguilar modified.
Spanish pilot A. Martín García modified.
Soviet pilot Mikhail Vasilhevich Kotyhov modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

16/2-2018
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.
Soviet ace Aleksei Khlobystov modified.

15/2-2018
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.

14/2-2018
Soviet ace Vasily Smirnov modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

13/2-2018
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.

12/2-2018
Japanese ace Tameyoshi Kuroki modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

9/2-2018
German ace Wolf-Heinrich von Houwald modified.
German ace Erwin Sawallisch modified.
German ace Harro Harder modified.
Spanish ace Felipe del Río Crespo modified.
Soviet pilot Sergei Bulkin modified.
Soviet pilot Nikolai Petrukhin modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

8/2-2018
Soviet ace Sergey Gritsevets modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

7/2-2018
Spanish pilot Jesús García Herguido modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

6/2-2018
Soviet ace Vasily Smirnov modified.
Soviet ace Petr Agafonov modified.
Soviet ace Sergey Gritsevets modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

5/2-2018
Italian ace Andrea Zotti modified.
Italian ace Aldo Buvoli modified.
Italian pilot Antonio Raffi modified.
Soviet ace Sergey Gritsevets modified.
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.

2/2-2018
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.
Spanish Civil War 1937 modified.

1/2-2018
Soviet ace Konstantin Korshunov added.
Soviet pilot Grigoriy Sokolov modified.

31/1-2018
Italian ace Ranieri Piccolomini modified.
Italian pilot Piero Buttazzi modified.

30/1-2018
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.

29/1-2018
Italian pilot Danilo Billi modified.
Italian pilot Alessandro Ruzzene modified.

22/1-2018
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.

19/1-2018
Italian ace Pio Tomaselli modified.
The Fiat CR.42 in Regia Aeronautica service modified.

18/1-2018
Soviet ace Vasily Smirnov modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

17/1-2018
Spanish Civil War 1936 modified.
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.

16/1-2018
Soviet ace Aleksei Khlobystov modified.
Italian ace Ranieri Piccolomini modified.

12/1-2018
Soviet ace Vasily Smirnov added.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.

11/1-2018
Spanish ace José Falcó Sanmartín modified.
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
Swedish aviator Sven Bergendahl modified.

10/1-2018
Italian ace Clizio Nioi modified.
Commonwealth ace Gordon Steege modified.

9/1-2018
Spanish Civil War 1938 modified.
The Nomonhan Incident/Khalkhin Gol modified.
Soviet ace Petr Agafonov modified.

8/1-2018
Soviet ace Evgeni Bocharov added.
Italian ace Mario Veronesi modified.

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