WW2 Signed Souvenir Canvas Italian Savoy Bomber Western Desert 1940

An interesting souvenir of the early campaign in the Western Desert. A section of painted canvas souvenired from an Italian Bomber. And as written “Savoy 79 Italian Bomber Shot down in Western Desert July 1940 Egypt”.
Covered in hand written signatures of Commonwealth soldiers from Australia , Scotland, and New Zealand. The white and khaki paint ,at indicate it was removed from the mid fuselage section where a white band surrounds the body of the fuselage.

The Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero (Italian for sparrowhawk) was a three-engined Italian medium bomber developed and manufactured by aviation company Savoia-Marchetti. It may be the best-known Italian aeroplane of the Second World War. The SM.79 was easily recognizable due to its fuselage's distinctive dorsal "hump", and was reportedly well liked by its crews, who nicknamed it il gobbo maledetto ("damned hunchback").

The SM.79 was developed in the early 1930s. It was a cantilever low-wing monoplane of combined wood and metal construction, designed with the intention of producing a swift eight-passenger transport aircraft capable of besting the fastest of its contemporaries, but its potential as a combat aircraft quickly attracted the attention of the Italian government. Performing its first flight on 28 September 1934, early examples of the type established 26 separate world records between 1937 and 1939, qualifying it for some time as the fastest medium bomber in the world.

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