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Aviazione Legionaria
The
Legionary Air Force
(, ) was an expeditionary corps from the
Italian Royal Air Force
. It was set up in 1936 and sent to provide logistical and tactical support to the
rebel faction
after the
pro-Fascist military coup
which marked the onset of the
Spanish Civil War
. This air force would fight the conflict against the
Spanish Republic
alongside its
Nazi German
equivalent, the
Condor Legion
, and the Italian ground troops of the
Corpo Truppe Volontarie
. They served from August 1936 to the end of the conflict in March 1939. Their main base of operations was
Majorca
in the
Balearic Islands
.
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