Caproni bombers during World War I
Italy was quick to appreciate the value of bombing attacks on enemy targets. Its big three-engined, twin-tailboom Capronis were among the finest bombers of World War I.
Italy was quick to appreciate the value of bombing attacks on enemy targets. Its big three-engined, twin-tailboom Capronis were among the finest bombers of World War I.
On the night of March 11-12, 1944, five German pilot-operated Fiat CR.42LW biplanes from the Nachtschlachtgruppe 9 took off to attack Allied positions on the Italian front. More than three years after the night fighters Arado Ar 68 disappeared from the first-line armament of the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force began to use fighter biplanes again in combat. Of course, no longer in their original fighter role, but for night battles.
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