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The white "balkenkreuz" on the fuselage is there only for
identification by the Flak: the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana
was
always independent from the Luftwaffe.
Major ADRIANO VISCONTI: ace of Italian fighter pilots with 26 victories
of wich 15 shot down with the obsolete MACCHI 200
until 1st January
1944! and 11 after this date flying the more modern MACCHI 205 and
from
1st January 1945 with the Me 109 G-10 (white 6) to the end of war
defending the northern Italy against bombers.
Wounded a lot of time with a lot of incredible adventures he was the
example of the classic romantic fighter pilot, great commander, loved
by
his pilots.
To tell you the kind of man: diving during an attack to B-24,
Mustangs
and Thunderbolts over Lombardia (northern Italy) his guns suddenly
jammed, so, to not embarrass his wing man, Major Visconti, unarmed,
went on with the attack heading the chosen bomber and then
crossing
the big formation in a storm of enemy fire!
In the last months of war some pilots of his squadron went to Germany
at
Rangsdorf, Brandenburg and Brandis (JG 400) for passing to Me 163.
They
made the complete training on the gliders HABICHT-8 but
when at
Brandis were going to begin the flights on the KOMET, the sovietic
tanks
interrupt any program.
The last mission of first squadron was on April 19, 1945, when four
109s
shot down the B-24 of the Captain Walter Sutton. He and his crew
survived and was taken to the fighters airfield. Sutton admiring the
courage of the fighter pilots, wanted to participate to the funeral
of
Leutnant Morandi shot down with his 109 by the 12.7 of
the bomber.
At 2 p.m. of April 29 Major Visconti and his pilots were imprisoned
by
communist partisans near Malpensa airfield (Milan). Major Visconti
was
taken away to be interrogated: walking along the way, the red partisans
shot him on the back. They had not even the courage to look him
in the
eyes. I like to think that Major Visconti should be happy to fly finally
on a modern plane like the 207!
Daniele Sabatini
Sources
author: Nino Arena
title: La luftflotte italiana
editor: Edizioni Aeronautiche Italiane S.r.l.
date: 1978
author: Nino Arena
title: Battaglie nei cieli d'Italia 1943 - 1945 (history of the R.S.I.
air force)
editor: Intyrama - Interconair S.A. Italia
date: march 1971