Macchi C.205 Veltro Walk Around

by Maurizio Di Terlizzi

With Allied bombing raids increasing in 1942, Italy's High Command launched a competition for Serie 5 (5th series) fighters. Fitted with a German DB.605 engine, the sleek Macchi C.205s proved to be able to blast Spitfires out of the sky after they were introduced in November 1942. The addition of a wing-mounted 20mm in the spring of 1943 enabled the C.205 to take on US heavy bombers as well. Following the Italian Armistice, some C.205s turned their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897475720
• ISBN13: 9780897475723
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: MMD-Squadron Signal
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.0" x 10.8"