Balbo, Italo

Born: 1896 AD
Died: 1940 AD, at 44 years of age.

Nationality: Italian
Categories: Aviators, Politician

Italian aviator, blackshirt leader

1896 - Born on the 6th of June in in Quartesana, near Ferrara, Italy.

1923 - Charged with the murder of anti-fascist parish priest Giuseppe Minzoni in Argenta.

1924 - Fled to Rome, and became General Commander of the Fascist militia.

1925 - He served as undersecretary for National Economy.

1926 - Appointed Secretary of State for Air.

1928 - He became General of the Air Force.

1929 - Served as Minister of the Air Force.

1933 - Appointed governor general of Italian-held Libya.

Visited Rome to express his displeasure with Mussolini's support for Hitler.

1940 - Killed on 28th of June while on a reconnaissance flight on top of Italian positions in Tobruk, Libya.

Page last updated: 7:49pm, 06^th Jan '07

	Italo Balbo (La Vita sociale della nuova Italia) by Giorgio Rochat (Unknown Binding - May 17, 1986)
	Italo Balbo: Aviazione e potere aereo : atti del convegno internazionale nel centenario della nascita, Roma, 7-8 novembre 1996 (Unknown Binding - May 17, 1998)
	My air armada, by Italo Balbo (Unknown Binding - May 17, 2008)
	Italo Balbo: Aviatore e ministro dellaeronautica, 1926-1933 (I presupposti) by Giorgio Rochat (Unknown Binding - May 17, 1979)
	Balbo aviatore (Le Scie) by Cesare Falessi (Unknown Binding - May 17, 1983)
	Italo Balbo: Un uomo scomodo (Studium) by Learco Maietti (Unknown Binding - May 17, 2008)