Balbo, Gen. Italo. Italian Aero Authority. Died June 1940

Description:

Portrait of Italian aviator and air minister Italo Balbo, with his wife Emanuela Florio(?). "After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, Balbo visited Rome to express his displeasure with Mussolini's support for Hitler. On June 28, 1940 he was killed while on a reconnaissance flight on top of Italian positions in Tobruk, Libya, in a plane without insignia. The government in Rome maintained that the incident was an accident of friendly fire but Balbo's widow, Emanuela Florio, believed that it was an assassination on Mussolini's orders," from Cambridge Encyclopedia.

Notes:

Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library

Date Issued:

1928-01-17T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library

Collection:

Virtual Motor City

Subject Topic:

Air pilots and Portraits

Subject Name:

Balbo, Italo and 1896-1940

Format:

photographs

Rights:

Copyright Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

URL:

http://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc74444_1