Air War in the Spanish Civil War 1936-39

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Sergey Abrosov
Victor Luis Alvarez
Miguel Ansede Fernández
Vladislav Arhipov
Christer Bergström
Simon Buckley
Carlos Casas
Eugenio Costigliolo
Ferdinando D’Amico
Fernando Fernández Martín
Nick Hector
Roger Juglair
Stefano Lazzaro
Alfredo Logoluso
Michele Palermo
Jose M. Paliza
Tomas Polak
Ondrej Repka
Fernando Ribes
Javi Roman Marin
Giovanni Massimello
Johannes Matthews
Carlo Minguzzi
Jan Safarik
Sergio Santoro
Tom Semenza
Ludovico Slongo
Alexei Stepanov
Victoria Tarrida Lecha
Mirek Wawrzynski
Renato Zavattini
Mikhail Zhirokhov

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