19. "RE: Our Witches at War Eps. 15-17"
In response to message #0
>Francesca Baracca - Based on Major Francesco Baracca, Italy's >top fighter ace of WWI with 34 victories. Either shot down or killed >by ground fire (no one is entirely sure) in June, 1918. Lucchini's >own ace archetype, Franco Lucchini, was nicknamed "the Francesco >Baracca of the Second World War" in his time.
As a follow-up to this, the commentators mentioned during today's Italian Grand Prix that the Ferrari logo - the yellow shield with the prancing horse silhouette - was Francesco Baracca's personal symbol, presented to Enzo Ferrari by Baracca's mother after the war. (They didn't mention why; Ferrari didn't have any connection to the Italian Air Force that I know of, having served in the Army during WWI.)
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