Urkunde Flugzeugführer "Italiener "

[Dennis S]

I was after this grouping for quite a while and sealed the deal at The SOS .

Sergente Maggiore Pilota Giulio Bernardi of the VI Gruppo Caccia, 32 Squadriglia!!!


Urkunde German Pilots badge

Document for Italian pilots brevet ( wings)

Document for Distinction of honor for wound in war (Spain)

Cross of war valor 1941
Bronze medal 1940 ....November 1937 Spain
Cross of war valor .... June 1940 Fayence France

I hope you like it .

[Dennis S]

Italian Piolots wings

[Dennis S]

Wounded Spanish Civil war

[Semovente]

Very very nice document grouping Dennis...i bet you were pleased to obtain these docs...would look nice with the awards/medals ...do you have them ?....Semovente

[Dennis S]

Very very nice document grouping Dennis...i bet you were pleased to obtain these docs...would look nice with the awards/medals ...do you have them ?....Semovente

Grazie , yes I was extremely pleased . I don't have the badges yet. There are two photo supposedly associated I will post when I pull them out. I am not totaly unpacked from the SOS yet.

[Semovente]

Grazie , yes I was extremely pleased . I don't have the badges yet. There are two photo supposedly associated I will post when I pull them out. I am not totaly unpacked from the SOS yet.

Thats even better indeed Dennis...i look forward to the pics when you do...cheers Semovente...

[Dennis S]

I am not positive this photo is really related . At first glance I thought the flier on the right was Bernardi but his name (signature) does not appear on the back . Oddly he doesn't appear German and has a Greek sounding name . The photo may have just been given to Bernardi as a rememberence by what I can read on the back . Thanking the group's Italian comrades for the hostility in Treviso (Aviano Airport ) .

I am not sure that's where Bernardi would have acquired his German Pilots badge . I think the key may be in the authorizing signature on the Urkunde . If it could be deciphered one may be able to find out what unit the signature was with in that time frame.

[Dennis S]

Signed back with inscription and signatures

[Dennis S]

I don't think this photo is related at all.

[PAOLORUBENS]

I am not positive this photo is really related . At first glance I thought the flier on the right was Bernardi but his name (signature) does not appear on the back . Oddly he doesn't appear German and has a Greek sounding name . The photo may have just been given to Bernardi as a rememberence by what I can read on the back . Thanking the group's Italian comrades for the hostility in Treviso (Aviano Airport ) .

I am not sure that's where Bernardi would have acquired his German Pilots badge . I think the key may be in the authorizing signature on the Urkunde . If it could be deciphered one may be able to find out what unit the signature was with in that time frame.

ciao D ,

the S at the end might be a name from Sardinia as well ... is common there .

[andrea]

... Thanking the group's Italian comrades for the hostility in Treviso (Aviano Airport ) .
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..for your information and research probably he was in the Treviso-Istrana Airport (Aviano is not so closed to Treviso) , still an Italian Air force base since WWI.
ciao
Andrea

[Dennis S]

Andrea , thank you for the information . I guess I was reading it incorrectly when I was looking at an italian website .

Ha ha ........ I just read my Quote I wrote "hostility" should be "hospitality " was either damn iPad spell check or too much vino .

[Dennis S]

It appears he flew with " Iron Leg " Botto in Spain.

32^ Squadriglia
capitano Ernesto BOTTO
sottotenente Pietro CALISTRI
sergente maggiore Ugo CORSI
maresciallo Enrico VICENTINI
sottotenente Zeno TINTI
tenente Edoardo MOLINARI
sergente maggiore Giulio BERNARDI
sottotenente Giuseppe VOLPE
maresciallo Alberto GOBBO

[Dennis S]

Giulio Bernardi may very well be in this photo in Spain right after Ernest "iron Leg" Botto lost his leg. It appears Botto is posing with his Gruppo.

[Dennis S]

I'm having a bit of a difficulty researching him on the net as my Italian is poor.
Also their is another Pilot by the name of Duilio Bernardi also a sergente maggiore who was an ace with 1 kill in Spain and 4 more in WW11.
At first I thought it was a spellino mistake on the Italian Aces website , but I found the listed separately on http://decoratialvalormilitare.istit...ro.org/#<br />