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Signed by:Luigi Gorrini
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At DiligentiaGraphs our focus is to source out the best, authentic items and give you expedient and just service. Our goal is to deliver a five-star experience through prompt shipping and communication. Thank you for viewing our auction and feel free to ask any questions. The items for sale are to honor the veterans who served our nation and to expose their stories which might otherwise be lesser known. Hand signed 4×6 inch photo by World War II vet, Luigi Gorrini. Mr. Gorrini Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE was an Italian World War II fighter pilot in the Regia Aeronautica and in the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana. During the conflict, he flew with the Corpo Aereo Italiano (CAI, Italian Air Corps) during the Battle of Britain, fought over Libya and Tunisia, and was involved in the defence of the Italian mainland. Gorrini is believed to have shot down 19 Allied planes (24 according to some sources), and damaged another 9, of several types: Bristol Beaufighter, Bristol Blenheim, Curtiss P-40, Spitfire, P-38 Lightning, P-47 Thunderbolt, B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator. He piloted the biplane Fiat C.R.42 and monoplanes Macchi C.202 and C.205 Veltro. With the Veltro he shot down 14 Allied planes and damaged six more. At the time of his death, he was the only surviving fighter pilot awarded the Medaglia d’Oro al Valor Militare (Gold Medal of Military Valor). North Africa and Greece Bristol Beaufighter Mk 1, North Africa – The first aircraft shot down by Gorrini was one of the first Bristol Beaufighters that arrived in North Africa. A Fiat CR.42 in Regia Aeronautica service. Flying this nimble biplane, Gorrini scored his first victory on 16 April 1941, over Derna, in Cyrenaica. Gorrini came to North Africa as a member of 85a Squadriglia of 18° Gruppo C.T.. He shot down his first aircraft on 16 April 1941, over Derna, in Cyrenaica, Libya. While flying a CR.42 during a solo protection sortie, he intercepted two of the Bristol Beaufighters that had just arrived in the Mediterranean Theatre. Gorrini opened fire immediately before the two British aircraft reached the airstrip N 1 on Ftheja, where his 85ª Squadriglia was based. He shot the leading aircraft from a distance of 700-800 meters, landing hits on the right wingtip. While the second Beaufighter was taking evasive action, Gorrini closed to a distance of 250 meters hitting the first Bristol again. The British aircraft was by now very near to the Italian airstrip, so Gorrini strafed it a third time and the Beaufighter crashed just south of the airstrip. [4] He was credited with a kill and a damaged and shot 1,100 rounds. On 29 May, Gorrini intercepted two Blenheim bombers over Benghazi. He shot down one that fell just outside the city and shot all his remaining ammunition at the other Blenheim that managed to escape. Repatriated with his unit, on 29 August he was on Caselle Torinese airfield to start the training on the new monoplane fighters, the Fiat G.50 and Macchi C.200. Gorrini and the rest of 18° Gruppo moved lately on Mirafiori base and then to Ciampino Sud airfield, where the training on the G.50 and the C.200 came to an end on 10 December when his Gruppo flew with Macchi C.200s to Lecce and then to the new base of Araxos, in Greece. During the winter of 1941-42, he escorted convoys between Italy and Greece. On 17 December, in the air space around Argostoli port, in Kefalonia island, Gorrini intercepted two Bristol Blenheims, painted in black. He attacked the leading aircraft, hitting it repeatedly and then strafed the second. The two aircraft disappeared in the clouds and Gorrini was credited with a “probable” and a “damaged”. Gorrini had no other chance to clash with the enemy and he flew back to Italy with his Gruppo, on 25 April 1942. Back in Italy, Gorrini and his fellow pilots were trained to fly the C.200 as a fighter bomber until mid-July. On 23 July, the 18° joined the 23° Gruppo on Abu Haggag base, in North Africa. There, Gorrini flew protection sorties for Axis ships and ground-attack missions. In October the 4° Stormo was moved back, it delivered his Macchi C. 202s to the 3°Stormo. “At last, with the Macchi 202 we had a competitive plane.” On 2 January 1943, the whole 3° Stormo, now equipped with Macchi C.202s, took off to face two formations of Douglas DB.7 Bostons and B-25 Mitchells, escorted by Spitfires and P-40s. In the ensuing dogfight, Gorrini shot down an R.A.F. Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk, that fell west of Sirte. He then damaged a Spitfire that was attacking another Macchi. Gorrini shot 880 bullets, but his aircraft had been hit: there were 12 holes in his fuselage. Nine days later, the whole 18° Gruppo was escorting C.200 fighter-bombers in action on British airfields in Uadi (or Wadi) Tamet area. Gorrini shot down a 92 RAF Squadron Spitfire and he damaged another from the squadron of the British ace Flying Officer Neville Duke, shooting 688 12.7mm bullets. His Gruppo was often tasked to strafe the advancing Allied columns or to escort German bombers. On the morning of 26 February 1943, he took off from El Hamma, to escort, with other pilots of his Squadriglia, Stukas attacking Allied armoured forces in Ksar Ghilane (an oasis of southern Tunisia located on the eastern limit of the Grand Erg Oriental), then he strafed the enemy troops. In the afternoon, on Kebili, with tenente Melis and two other fellow pilots, he intercepted four Allied aircraft. Gorrini claimed a Hawker Hurricane IID, armed with 40mm Vickers cannons. But this was his last air battle in Africa. His irritating eye injury was worsening. He was grounded and subsequently, at the end of February, hospitalised in Sfax. He returned to Italy in late March 1943. Defence of Rome When Gorrini recovered, he was posted as a flying instructor to 3° Gruppo C (Complementare), based at Venaria Reale airfield. Later, Gorrini served as a ferry pilot to transfer captured French Dewoitine D.520 fighters from France to Italy, for Italian home defence. “I have collected several dozen Dewoitine from various French airfields and the Toulouse factory”, he recalled later. “At the time, when we were still flying the Macchi C.200, it was a good, if not very good, machine. Compared to the Macchi 200, it was superior only in one point – its armament of the Hispano-Suiza HS 404 20mm cannon.” Gorrini, who had, by February 1943 achieved four confirmed victories and one unconfirmed, was given, at the beginning of the summer of 1943, one of the three Macchi C.205 Veltro assigned to the 3° Stormo as a special favour (the other two were allotted to the ace Tenente Franco Bordoni Bisleri and to Maresciallo Guido Fibbia). During the summer of 1943, in defence of Italy, he claimed 11 enemy aircraft. On 19 July, during a single sortie west of Rome, Gorrini destroyed a four-engined Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber and a Lockheed P-38 Lightning (another P-38 was damaged). The next day, he claimed another P-38 destroyed and a P-38 damaged. On 25 July Benito Mussolini had been overthrown, but this had no decisive effect on the morale of the Regia Aeronautica. Gorrini recalled: “After 25 July, despite the arrest of Mussolini, the morale of my unit, 85a Squadriglia and my personal readiness for action remained high. Despite all the reverses that Italy had suffered by the time, our 3° Stormo was the only one still fully ready for combat: my section was detailed to defend Rome. The larger part of the Regia Aeronautica was uninterested in politics or parties, they were men infatuated with flying and determined to defend the land of their birth and to give their lives if necessary in the attempt to stop the bombing of Italian towns.” On 13 August, Gorrini claimed a B-24 off the coast at Ostia, in the Lazio region, but he was also shot down by defensive fire from the bomber, bailing out safely. He claimed a Spitfire on 26 August. The next day, the whole Stormo scrambled to intercept four-engine bombers which were attacking Cerveteri, on the Latium coast in central Italy. Gorrini, still flying a Veltro, shot down two Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and a Lockheed P-38 Lightning in a single engagement (according to other sources, Gorrini claimed two B-24s). One wing of his C.205 was damaged after an overheating cannon muzzle exploded. After running out of gasoline, he glided back to his base for a powerless landing. On 29 August, he claimed two P-38s destroyed and two more damaged. On 30 August, Gorrini claimed another B-17 Flying Fortress over Frascati and the same day he was mentioned on Bollettino di Guerra: “Sergente Maggiore Luigi Gorrini da Alseno (Piacenza) of 3° Stormo Caccia has distinguished himself during the aerial battles of the 27th and 29th, during which he has shot down two four-engined bombers and a twin-engined fighter.” On 31 August, 85a Squadriglia, with Gorrini in a C.205V, took off from Palidoro airfield (Rome) at 12:00, flying in the direction of Naples to engage enemy bombers. At 8,500 meters the Squadriglia clashed with escorting Spitfires with 85a claiming three Spitfires destroyed and five damaged during this combat. Gorrini shot down one Spitfire (his 15th air victory) and damaged a P-38, but his aircraft was badly hit by machine gun fire and he made a forced landing away from his airfield at 12:50. Gorrini was seriously wounded and hospitalised. He was out of the fighting when Italy surrendered to the Allies on 8 September 1943. During three years of combat service, Gorrini was involved in 132 air battles, was credited with 15 confirmed air victories, was wounded twice, crash-landed once and bailed out once, was mentioned in dispatches several times, and was decorated two times. Shipping is done within 24 hours of received payment. We ship our items in 6X9 envelopes, sent first class with tracking and well packed. We do our best to accommodate special shipping requests as needed. We do accept returns within 14 days that has been communicated and approved. We have a 15% fee on items that are restocked and do pay for return shipping. Refunds are given once items are returned in original condition. On all of our sold items we donate a percentage of profits to the Wounded Warrior project and to World War II museum in New Orleans, LA.
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