Carlo Emanuele Buscaglia after being a prisoner in the US for a year ,returned to Italy, joined the Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force and lost his life flying the Martin Baltimore. He was credited with sinking of the Tribal Class Destroyer HMS Bedouin on 15 June 1942. The Italians had thought that Buscaglia had been killed in action, and the ANR, the Italian air arm that fought with the Germans after the 1943 armistice, named their torpedo bomber unit Gruppo Aerosiluranti Buscaglia in his honor. When they found out that he had survived and was flying with the allies, the unit was quickly renamed Gruppo Aerosiluranti Faggioni to honor another commander who had died in action.

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For the first time I have seen "History" at close quarters,and I know that its actual process is very different from what is presented to Posterity. - WWI General Max Hoffman.

I'm the "Confederate with a pipe"!! LOL