Beginning in 1943, the U.S. War and Navy departments stopped issuing individual country aircraft identification manuals and instead issued multi-national manuals for the aircraft of the major WWII combatants.
Italian aircraft can also be found in the:
U.S., UK, German, Japanese, and Italian aircraft April 1943 manual (click here to go to that manual); and the
U.S., UK, German, Japanese, Italian, and Soviet-Russian 1943-44 manual (click here to go to that manual).Click here to return to the aircraft recognition page