Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana

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The Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana (A.N.R) (National Republican Air Force) was the air force of Italian Social Republic during World War II, closely linked with the German Luftwaffe in Northern Italy.

This air force was tasked with defending the industrial areas of the region, intercepting Allied bombers en route to Southern Germany and the allied and occupied territories of the Axis, and giving close support to German and Italian land forces. Later during the war various units served with German forces based at Spilve near Riga (Reichskommissariat Ostland) on the North Russian Front, amongst others in the Central and South Area (Krymea) on the front.

The Italian National Republican Air Force, after the 1943 armistice that divided Italy, received numbers of Italian aircraft, later augmented with their own local production, and further aircraft received from Germany. This force was opposed to Aeronautica Cobelligerante del Sud, the Italian pro-Allied air force, though they never actually met in combat.

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[edit] Units of National Republican Air Force

  • Squadriglia Asso di Bastoni,1°Stormo di Caccia,Mirafiori,North Italy
  • 1°Gruppo Aerotrasporti "Terraciano",Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana; Riga-Spilve,Latvia,June 1944,under led of 1°Staffeln Transportfliedgergruppe 10 (Ital),Luftwaffe in North area,Russian Front.

[edit] Members of Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana

See: List of Members of Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana

[edit] Aircraft in use by the National Republican Air Force

[edit] See Also

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