"DON'T YOU WANT TO BECOME A DE PINEDO?"
From fences, telephone poles and bulletin boards all over Italy flared that legend six years ago. It was the recruiting slogan of the Italian Air Force. In hotels, drinking rooms, barber shops, banks, the legend was pasted above maps of the world, on which the course of the seaplane Santa Maria, captained by Commander Francesco de Pinedo ("Messenger of Italianity," "Conqueror of the Air"), was charted from Sardinia to West Africa, across the South Atlantic to Brazil, around South America and up to New...
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