This panel which there is a fair bit of paintwork still on it which is mostly green with a bit of brown camouflage paintwork scheme and looks like light blue primer it has ripped and bent by the impact of the crash it has been very nicely cleaned and still retains a lot of its original colour and is a large size at 10 inches long by 5 inches wide.The part comes from Italian Fiat G.50 Freccia fighter plane which was shot down and crashed in Sicily during the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943.The panel comes with 2×A5 laminated information cards with pictures and map.
The G.50 Freccia entered service in 1938 and saw action in all the Italian campaigns of the war until there surrender in 1943 it was also used by the Luftwaffe and the Finnish Airforce there were 791 built between 1937 until 1943.After late 1942 the remaining G.50 fighters that were stationed in Italy were in second line duties like training. After the defeat in North Africa the Italian Army was in disarray and the rapid Allied Landings in Sicily meant that these aircraft were pressed back in to front line service to equip the 158th and 159th fighter groups. These 2 groups suffered heavy losses attacking Allied positions on the island in only a few days fighting the 2 groups were destroyed and the aircraft never saw action again in Italy.
This panel which there is a fair bit of paintwork still on it which is mostly green with a bit of brown camouflage paintwork scheme and looks like light blue primer it has ripped and bent by the impact of the crash it has been very nicely cleaned and still retains a lot of its original colour and is a large size at 10 inches long by 5 inches wide.The part comes from Italian Fiat G.50 Freccia fighter plane which was shot down and crashed in Sicily during the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943.The panel comes with 2×A5 laminated information cards with pictures and map.
The G.50 Freccia entered service in 1938 and saw action in all the Italian campaigns of the war until there surrender in 1943 it was also used by the Luftwaffe and the Finnish Airforce there were 791 built between 1937 until 1943.After late 1942 the remaining G.50 fighters that were stationed in Italy were in second line duties like training. After the defeat in North Africa the Italian Army was in disarray and the rapid Allied Landings in Sicily meant that these aircraft were pressed back in to front line service to equip the 158th and 159th fighter groups. These 2 groups suffered heavy losses attacking Allied positions on the island in only a few days fighting the 2 groups were destroyed and the aircraft never saw action again in Italy.
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