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The 400-mph Macchi C.205V...

history · 08 July 1943 · 81 years ago

The 400-mph Macchi C.205V Veltro fighter made its combat debut when fifteen machines escorted a force of Italian Regia Aeronautica torpedo-bombers tasked to attack Allied warships bombarding the island of Pantelleria southwest of Sicily. 

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