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by mapalm
Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:07 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Italian "Aces" - Confirmed Kills
Replies: 36
Views: 75700

Vincent, You pointed out a very impressive and topic argument. But first of all I want to tell you that my grandpa was twice in Ellis Island, in 1911 and in 1920. My father left very soon is place of birth and lived is all life far from it. My brother is right now overseas... Sorry this certificate ...
by mapalm
Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:57 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Italian "Aces" - Confirmed Kills
Replies: 36
Views: 75700

Hi all, I did not read (due to cancellation) the original discussion. The topic is extremely interesting, even if a bit difficult to handle for a series of reason. But I do agree with SuperAereo when he wrote: ... on the rare occasion this has been done the result invariably showed wild overclaiming...
by mapalm
Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:17 am
Forum: Middle East June 1941 - September 1943
Topic: Manama Refinery
Replies: 7
Views: 37501

SuperAereo wrote:
... is both... abysmal...
You make me search the dictionary for that! :twisted: never heard before... talking about ignorance. :lol:

ciao
by mapalm
Fri Jun 01, 2007 6:54 am
Forum: News
Topic: A Famous Torpedo-Bomber Buscaglia's 281-5 by Stefano Lazzaro
Replies: 3
Views: 15600

Thanks a lot for the reading.

Enjoyed the fist part and now looking forward to the 2nd!

ciao
by mapalm
Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:39 am
Forum: Middle East June 1941 - September 1943
Topic: Manama Refinery
Replies: 7
Views: 37501

Ciao Super :)

Good suggestion. That's a very interesting site and a pretty good source of infos. (and the on line pages about the mission are an abstract from Moci's book)
by mapalm
Sat Apr 21, 2007 3:21 am
Forum: Color and Camouflage Schemes
Topic: S.M .84 aerosiluranti
Replies: 6
Views: 15557

First I've to say that I'm not a model maker neither an expert on Camo. :oops: Second I see that more than a month has gone and maybe Mirek went on with his work, but I discovered the forum just couple of days ago. :lol: Last but not least I had the chance, during my researches on small branches of ...
by mapalm
Fri Apr 20, 2007 2:48 am
Forum: Middle East June 1941 - September 1943
Topic: Manama Refinery
Replies: 7
Views: 37501

Hi guys, if you're interested in this mission and you can read in italiano, than you'd look for this book: P. Moci, Seguendo la bandiera - vita di un pilota , Giorgio Apostolo Editore 2001; where the author, who was in the first S.82 with maggiore Ettore Muti, wrote some interesting pages on the mis...