This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from Italy. 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" 19
Medaglia d'Oro al valor Militare (three times during World war II), Iron Cross (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
Medaglia d'oro al Valore Militare KIA 4 September 1943
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 7
Medaglia d'Oro al valor Militare (three times during World war II)KIA 27 July 1942 on Gozo, by Canadian top ace George Beurling
Drago, Ugo
16
11 kills with RSI [1]
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 21 (+ 1 in Spain)
KIA 5 July 1943 [1]
Fibbia, Guido 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 19
Medaglia d'Oro al valor Militare (in 1958), Iron Cross (1st and 2nd class).(4 kills with RSI air force) [1]
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.[1]
Leotta, Eugenio
5
Locatelli, Bruno
5
Longhi, Felice
6
Longhini, Antonio
8
KIA 16 November 1944
Lucchini, Franco 21
Medaglia d'Oro al Valor Militare (Posthumous), five Medaglia d'argento al valor militare and one Medaglia di bronzo , German Iron Cross (2nd class)(+ 5 kills in Spain and 52 shared) KIA 5 July 1943 on Sicily [2]
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) [1]
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
Perdoni, Luciano
6
Pergameni, Antonio Larsimont
6
Petrosellini, Costantino
5
Pinna, Mario
5
Pluda, Mario
5
Pocek, Giorgio
5
Presel, Guido
13
Q [ ]
Name
Kills
Awards
Notes
Querci, Alvaro
6
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, by Canadian top ace George Beurling , while searching for a Missing In Action 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 World War II (+ two in Spain) and two Medaglie di Bronzo
+ 1 kill in Spain, with Aviazione Legionaria
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 26
7 kills with RSI, KIA 29 April 1945, Maggiore [1]
Visintini, Mario 17
Medaglia d'Oro al Valor Militare , Medaglia d'Argento and Medaglia di Bronzo KIFA 11 February 1941, Capitano [1]
Z [ ]
Name
Kills
Awards
Notes
Zemella, Celso
5
Zotti, Andrea
9
Zotti, Nicola
5
Zuccarini, Gian Mario
5
References [ ] Notes Bibliography
Beurling, George and Leslie Roberts. Malta Spitfire: The Story of a Fighter Pilot. New York/Toronto: Ferrar & Rinehart, Inc. 1943. NO ISBN.
Gustavsson, Håkan and Ludovico Slongo. Fiat CR.42 Aces of World War 2 . Midland House, West Way, Botley, Oxford /New York, Osprey Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84603-427-5 .
Gustavsson Håkan.URL "Italy Capitano Mario Visintini Medaglia d'Oro al Valor Militare." Biplane fighter aces on Håkan's aviation page. Retrieved: 12 November 2009.
Massimello, Giovanni and Giorgio Apostolo. Italian Aces of World War Two . Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2000. ISBN 978-1-84176-078-0 .
Shores, Christopher, Air Aces , Greenwich, CT, Bison Books, 1983. ISBN 0-86124-104-5 .
Skulski, Przemysław: Fiat CR.42 Falco . Redbourn, UK: Mushroom Model Publications, 2007. ISBN 83-89450-34-8 .
Giovanni (1998) (in Italian and English). Furio Niclot Doglio: Un pilota indimenticabile . Milan: Giorgio Apostolo. Spick, Mike: The complete fighter ace - All the World's Fighter Aces, 1914-2000 . London, Greenhill Books, 1999. ISBN 1-85367-255-6 .
Sutherland, Jon & Diane Canwell: Air War East Africa 1940-41 The RAF versus the Italian Air Force . Barnsley (South Yorkshire) Pen and Sword Aviation, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84415-816-4 .
