List of World War I flying aces from Italy
This list contains a complete list of all World War I flying aces who flew for the Kingdom of Italy.
A military intelligence committee, the Bongiovanni Commission, verified the aerial victories of Italian aviators during World War I and released its listing of Corpo Aeronautico Militare flying aces on 1 February 1919. The Bongiovanni report served as the basic source for this list.[1] Additions, and later adjustments in victory scores, are cited separately below.
The Bongiovanni Commission list
Name | Victories |
---|---|
Francesco Baracca | 34[2] |
Silvio Scaroni | 26[3] |
Pier Ruggero Piccio | 24[4] |
Flavio Baracchini | 21[5] |
Fulco Ruffo di Calabria | 20[6] |
Marziale Cerutti | 17[7] |
Ferruccio Ranza | 17[8] |
Luigi Olivari | 12[9] |
Giovanni Ancillotto | 11[10] |
Antonio Reali | 11[11] |
Flaminio Avet | 8[12] |
Ernesto Cabruna | 8[13] |
Alvaro Leonardi | 8[14] |
Carlo Lombardi | 8[15] |
Giovanni Nicelli | 8[16] |
Gastone Novelli | 8[17] |
Leopoldo Eleuteri | 7[18] |
Guglielmo Fornagiari | 7[19] |
Mario Fucini | 7[20] |
Orazio Pierozzi | 7[8] |
Cosimo Rennella[note 1] | 7[21] |
Antonio Riva | 7[22] |
Aldo Bocchese | 6[23] |
Antonio Chiri | 6[24] |
Bartolomeo Costantini | 6[25] |
Attilio Imolesi | 6[26] |
Cesare Magistrini | 6[27] |
Guido Nardini | 6[28] |
Luigi Olivari | 6[29] |
Giorgio Pessi[note 2] | 6[30] |
Cosimo Rizzotto | 6[31] |
Mario Stoppani | 6[32] |
Romolo Ticconi | 6[33] |
Michele Allasia | 5[34] |
Antonio Amantea | 5[35] |
Sebastiano Bedendo | 5[36] |
Alessandro Buzio | 5[37] |
Umberto Calvello | 5[38] |
Giulio Lega | 5[39] |
Federico Martinengo | 5[40] |
Guido Masiero | 5[41] |
Amedeo Mecozzi | 5[42] |
Giorgio Michetti | 5[43] |
Alessandro Resch | 5[44] |
Giovanni Sabelli | 5[45] |
Footnotes
- ^ Ecuadorian citizen
- ^ Austro-Hungarian citizen
References
- Notes
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 167–168.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 131–132.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 160–161.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 151–152.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 133–134.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 158–159.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), p. 137.
- ^ a b Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 152–153.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 149–150.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), p. 130.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 154–155.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), p. 131.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 135–136.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), p. 142.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 142–143.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 147–148.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), p. 148.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), p. 139.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 139–140.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 140–141.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 155–156.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 156–157.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 134–135.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), p. 138.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 138–139.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), p. 141.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 143–144.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), p. 147.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), p. 149.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 150–151.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 157–158.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), p. 161.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), p. 162.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), p. 129.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 129–130.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), p. 134.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), p. 135.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), p. 136.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 141–142.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), p. 144.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 144–145.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), pp. 145–146.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), p. 146.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), p. 156.
- ^ Franks, Guest & Alegi (1997), p. 159.
- Bibliography
- Franks, Norman; Guest, Russell F. & Alegi, Gregory (1997). Above the War Fronts: The British Two-seater Bomber Pilot and Observer Aces, the British Two-seater Fighter Observer Aces, and the Belgian, Italian, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Fighter Aces, 1914–1918. London, UK: Grub Street. ISBN 978-1-898697-56-5.