Before he plunged into a war he thought was already won, Benito Mussolini used to talk of a daredevil air squadron called "I Disperati"the desperate ones. These brave men, when the proper time came, would climb into the air in planes packed with TNT and dive to their death and to the glory of the fatherland smack into the middle of enemy ships.
Last week I Disperati had not yet shown their sacrificial heads, but for the first time Italy employed a new dive-bomber formation. Near Valletta Harbor, Malta, and later the same...
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