A Captured Italian Pilot Being Escorted Through a Train Station, 1940. Britain during the Second World War. 'Once and once only did il Duce [Mussolini] ask his allies [ie the Germans] to allow Italians to take part in the air onslaught upon Britain. Once only, because it was an occasion expensive to him both in machines and in men'. From "Time To Remember - Standing Alone", 1940 (Reel 3); documentary film about events of later months of 1940.

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