List of World War II aces from Italy
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Fighter Ace
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s in World War II
World War II
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 from Italy
Italy
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. For other countries see List of World War II aces by country.

A

Name Kills Awards Notes
Adami, Ranieri Piccolomini Clementini 7
Annoni, Emanuele "Ele" 9
Arcangeletti, Paolo 5
Aurili, Giuseppe 5

B

Name Kills Awards Notes
Baldi, Loris 5
Bandini, Luigi 5 KIA 29 April 1944
Barcaro, Giovanni 9
Baron, Luigi "Gino" 12
Bartolacchini, Osvaldo 6
Bartolozzi, Osvaldo 6
Baschirotto, Gianlino "Giri" 11
Bassi, Livio 6 KIA 2 April 1941 (DOW)
Baylon, Giuseppe 5
Bellagambi, Mario 13
Benati, Amedeo 10
Bernardi, Duilio 5
Biagini, Bruno 7
Biagini, Lucio 5 KIA 25 April 1944
Bianchi, Manfredo 5
Bianchi, Pietro 5 KIA 2 August 1943
Biron, Giuseppe "Bepi" 8
Bladelli, Alessandro 5
Bonet, Giovanni 8 KIA 29 April 1944
Bonfatti, Piero 6 KIA 22 November 1941
Bonzano, Mario 17
Bordoni-Bisleri, Franco "Robur"
Franco Bordoni
Franco Bordoni-Bisleri was an Italian aviator and racing car driver. He is one of the top-scoring ace of Regia Aeronautica, with 19 air victories. His nickname was "Robur" that was painted on most of his aircraft and racing cars.-Early life:Bordoni was born in Milan...

 
19 Medaglia d'Oro al valor Militare (three times during World war II), Iron Cross
Iron Cross
The Iron Cross is a cross symbol typically in black with a white or silver outline that originated after 1219 when the Kingdom of Jerusalem granted the Teutonic Order the right to combine the Teutonic Black Cross placed above a silver Cross of Jerusalem....

 (2nd class).
KIFA 15 September 1975
Botto Ernesto 8
Buogo Egidio 5
Buvoli Aldo 6

C

Name Kills Awards Notes
Camaioni, Antonio 8
Canella, Carlo 7
Canfora, Antonio 7
Caselli, Gilberto 5
Cavalli, Evasio 5 KIA 21 July 1943
Celentano ,Agostino 6
Cenni, Giuseppe 9
Chiarini, Guglielmo 5 KIA 4 February 1941
Covre, Tullio 5
Cucchi, Carlo 5
Cuscuna, Francesco 5

D

Name Kills Awards Notes
Daffara, Vittorino 7
Damiani, Rinaldo 5
Dell'Innocenti, Giovanni 12 KIA 3 July 1943
Di Bert, Cesare 6
Di Briona, Giorgio Solaroli 11
Di Poggio Suasa, Carlo Maurizio Ruspoli 11
Doglio, Furio Niclot
Furio Niclot Doglio
Furio Niclot Doglio, MOVM was an Italian test pilot and World War II fighter pilot in the Regia Aeronautica. Doglio set nine world aviation records in the 1930s during his time as a test pilot. During the war, he claimed seven kills , flying FIAT G. 50s and Macchi C. 202s, establishing himself as...

 
7 Medaglia d'Oro al valor Militare (three times during World war II) KIA 27 July 1942 on Gozo
Gozo
Gozo is a small island of the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. The island is part of the Southern European country of Malta; after the island of Malta itself, it is the second-largest island in the archipelago...

, by Canadian top ace George Beurling
George Beurling
George Frederick "Buzz" Beurling DSO, DFC, DFM & Bar, RCAF , was the most successful Canadian fighter pilot of the Second World War....

Drago, Ugo 16 11 kills with RSI

E

Name Kills Awards Notes
Ettore, Domenico 5

F

Name Kills Awards Notes
Facchini Dotta, Domenico 5
Fanali, Duilio Sergio 15
Ferazzani, Giuseppe 5
La Ferla, Germano 13
Ferrulli, Leonardo
Leonardo Ferrulli
Leonardo Ferrulli was an ace of the Regia Aeronautica, and a recipient of the Medaglia d'Oro al Valor Militare...

 
21 (+ 1 in Spain) KIA 5 July 1943
Fibbia, Guido
Guido Fibbia
Guido Fibbia was an Italian Second World War fighter pilotin the Regia Aeronautica and in the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana....

 
6 (+ 3 in Spain)
Filippi Fausto 8 23/01/1945
Filippi, Luigi 7 20/02/1943
Fissore, Giuliano 5
Forlani, Dino 7
Fornaci, Fausto 9 KIA 6 February 1945
Foschini, Ettore 7
François, Armando 6
Frigerio, Iacopo 5

G

Name Kills Awards Notes
Gaucci, Roberto 7
Giannella, Luigi 12
Giardina, Antonio 5
Giudice, Eber 5
Gorrini, Luigi
Luigi Gorrini
Luigi Gorrini, MOVM, is a former Italian World War II fighter pilot in the Regia Aeronautica and in the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana....

 
19 Medaglia d'Oro al valor Militare (in 1958), Iron Cross
Iron Cross
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 (1st and 2nd class).
(4 kills with RSI
RSI
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 air force)
Graffer, Giorgio 5 KIA 28 November 1940
Guarnaccia, Filippo 7
Guerci, Mario 5
Guidi, Amedeo 6
Guiducci, Spiridone 5

I

Name Kills Awards Notes
Incerto, Enrico Degli 5
Iellici, Luigi 5

L

Name Kills Awards Notes
Laiolo, Domenico 6
Lauri, Furio 18 approx.
Leotta, Eugenio 5
Locatelli, Bruno 5
Longhi, Felice 6
Longhini, Antonio 8 KIA 16 November 1944
Lucchini, Franco
Franco Lucchini
Franco Lucchini, MOVM, was an Italian World War II fighter pilot in the Aviazione Legionaria and in the Regia Aeronautica. During World War II he achieved 21 individual air victories, plus 52 shared, to add to the five kills in Spain, during the Civil War.He was born in Rome, son of a railway...

 
21 Medaglia d'Oro al Valor Militare (Posthumous), five Medaglia d'argento al valor militare and one Medaglia di bronzo, German Iron Cross
Iron Cross
The Iron Cross is a cross symbol typically in black with a white or silver outline that originated after 1219 when the Kingdom of Jerusalem granted the Teutonic Order the right to combine the Teutonic Black Cross placed above a silver Cross of Jerusalem....

 (2nd class)
(+ 5 kills in Spain and 52 shared) KIA 5 July 1943 on Sicily

M

Name Kills Awards Notes
Magnaghi, Carlo 11
Magrini, Vasco 11
Malagola, Willy 11
Malvezzi, Fernando 10
Mandolini, Orlando 7
Mantelli, Adriano 15
Marconcini, Giuseppe 6
Mariotti, Luigi 5
Martinoli, Teresio 23 (1 kill with Co-Bell)
Mastroagostino, Angelo 11
Maurer, Sergio 5
Mazzitelli, Orfeo 8
Mecatti, Mario 6
Melis, Mario 5
Miani, Carlo 7
Minguzzi, Vittorio 13
Miotto, Elio 5
Montagnani, Gianfranco 5
Montegnacco, Brunetto di 14
Monterumici, Amleto 6
Monti, Luigi 5
Moretto, Enrico 5
Morosi, Luigi 5
Mottet, Giuseppe 6

N

Name Kills Awards Notes
Nioi, Clizio 7
Nobili, Guido 10
Noveli, Raffaello 5

O

Name Kills Awards Notes
Oblach (Garolla), Giuseppe 7 KIA 1 December 1942
Ocarso, Dante 5 KIA 28 November 1942
Omiccioli Enzo 5 KIA 3 February 1941
Omiccioli, Walter 9

P

Name Kills Awards Notes
Palazzeschi, Antonio 5
Pecchiari, Francesco 5 KIA 6 July 1942, by Canadian top ace George Beurling
George Beurling
George Frederick "Buzz" Beurling DSO, DFC, DFM & Bar, RCAF , was the most successful Canadian fighter pilot of the Second World War....

Perdoni, Luciano 6
Pergameni, Antonio Larsimont 6
Petrosellini, Costantino 5
Pinna, Mario 5
Pluda, Mario 5
Pocek, Giorgio 5
Presel, Guido 13

R

Name Kills Awards Notes
Reiner, Giulio 10
Remondino, Aldo 5
Ricci, Corrado 5
Robetto, Giuseppe 10
Rodoz, Diego 6
Romagnoli, Carlo 11
Roveda, Riccardo 5
Ruzzin, Giuseppe 6

S

Name Kills Awards Notes
Giovanni Sajeva 5
Massimo Salvatore 10
Attilio Sanson 12
Vincenzo Sant'Andrea 7
Angelo Savini 7
Per Giuseppe Scarpetta 6
Lombardo Schiappacasse 7
Carlo Seganti 5 Medaglia d'Oro al Valor Militare (Postmously) KIA 12 July 1942, North of Malta
Malta
Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

, by Canadian top ace George Beurling
George Beurling
George Frederick "Buzz" Beurling DSO, DFC, DFM & Bar, RCAF , was the most successful Canadian fighter pilot of the Second World War....

, while searching for a Missing In Action
Missing in action
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 fellow pilot, Tenente
Ricardo Emo Seidl 6
Ferruccio Serafini 9
Pietro Serini 11
Olindo Simionato 5
Aroldo Soffritti 8
Claudio Solaro 12
Alberto Spigaglia 6
Vittorio Squarcia 5
Natalino Stabile 9
Annibale Sterzi 5

T

Name Kills Awards Notes
Talamini, Renato 5 KIA 10 April 1944
Tarantola, Ennio "Banana" 10 Two Medaglia d'argento al valor militare, during WWII (+ two in Spain) and two Medaglie di Bronzo + 1 kill in Spain, with Aviazione Legionaria
Aviazione Legionaria
The Legionary Air Force was an expeditionary corps from the Italian Royal Air Force. It was set up in 1936 and sent to provide logistical and tactical support to Francisco Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War, alongside its German equivalent, the Condor Legion, and the Italian ground...

Tessari, Arrigo 5
Torchio, Luigi 5 KIA 30 January 1944
Torresi, Giulio 10 KIA 1 July 1944
Tugnoli, Giorgio 6

V

Name Kills Awards Notes
Valenzano, Raffaele 8
Valtancoli, Tito 8
Vanzan, Virgilio 7
Veronese, Alberto 6 KIA 4 November 1944
Veronesi, Mario 12
Visconti di Lampugnano, Adriano
Adriano Visconti
Major Adriano Visconti di Lampugnano was one of Italy's top flying aces of the Second World War, shooting down between 10 to 26 enemy aircraft...

 
26 7 kills with RSI, KIA 29 April 1945, Maggiore
Visintini, Mario
Mario Visintini
Mario Visintini, MOVM, , was the first Regia Aeronautica World War II ace. He was the top scoring pilot of all belligerent air forces in Eastern Africa and the top biplane fighter ace of World War 2....

 
17 Medaglia d'Oro al Valor Militare, Medaglia d'Argento and Medaglia di Bronzo KIFA 11 February 1941, Capitano

Z

Name Kills Awards Notes
Zemella, Celso 5
Zotti, Andrea 9
Zotti, Nicola 5
Zuccarini, Gian Mario 5
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