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Old March 30th, 2008, 04:28 AM
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Default Re: Question on the Italian air force

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Originally Posted by JulioMoc View Post
That's not correct. ANR was the only FIGHTER unit during that last year (more specifically from Sep 44 to May 45) with the departure of Stab JG.77 to Germany. But the Luftwaffe kept present in the italian theather until the final surrender with night-attack and reconnaissance units. In the last months even a Arado Ar 234 unit (Sonderkommando Sommer) operated there, from Villafranca.
Thats probably what they author meant . What I do find more intersting is this,

" At the end of the war a small group of Italian pilots was located in Germany ready to begin training on the Me163 and Me262, but the war ended before they started the actual training."
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