Crickets against Rats. Regia Aeronautica in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1937 vol. I

The books focuses on the Italian Regia Aeronautica activity during the Spanish Civil War. In 1936 mutinous Spanish generals asked Benito Mussolini for help. Italian support was not granted immediatley, but eventually 12 SM.81 bombers departed to the Moroccan Nador airport. They were the first of 764 Italian planes sent to help the nationalists. The book follows day to day the air battles and the rapid development of the Italian Air Force in Spain. The first volume descibes fights from July 1937, including such actions as air raids on Madrid, the Battle of the Jarama River, Malaga and Guadalajara. The book also presents Regia Aeronautica involvement in operations carried out from this island

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