Sunday, October 13, 2013

dogfight over Spain, 1939


A photo as published in the Illustrated London News of 21 January 1939 showing a Spanish Republican Dewoltine D.34 fighter in trouble after its fuel tank has been hit by an Italian Air Force fighter, presumably the one behind.

Both Hitler and Mussolini sent military assistance to Franco's Nationalists (i.e. fascists), but recent evidence has confirmed what was long suspected, namely that the Germans sold arms to both sides.

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