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Within NATO, the Italian Navy was assigned combat control of the Adriatic Sea and Strait of Otranto, as well as the defence of the naval routes through the Tyrrhenian Sea. To ensure these tasks a Studio sul potenziamento della Marina italiana in relazione al Patto Atlantico (Study on the development of the Italian Navy with reference to the Atlantic Pact) was undertaken, which researched the structures and the methods for the development of the navy.
General Italo Balbo had early-on developed a career planning and commanding a number of large formation flights over long distances around the Mediterranean sea. Between December 17, 1930 and January 15, 1931 he led 12 Savio-Marchetti S.55 flying boats from Rome, across the South Atlantic Ocean to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His crowning achievement, however, took place in 1933 when he led an armada of 24 Savoia-Marchetti S.55X seaplanes across the North Atlantic. It proved to be one of that eras most spectacular aerial achievements which in turn elevated Balbo to a world-wide celebrity and hero status.
Unfortunately the armada lost another aircraft and a crew member was fatally injured when attempting to takeoff in the Azores August 9. The remaining armada arrived in Italy August 12 to be greeted by huge cheering crowds with celebrations in Rome and other cities throughout Italy. General Italo Balbo, was at this time, one of the most popular men in Italy and that apparently did not sit well with Fascist dictator Il Duce Benito Mussolini.
On July 14 the Armada covered the distance between Shediac and Montréal in about five hours. The flight in this case was almost entirely above land, meaning that the aviators had to rely entirely on the engines as emergency water landings were not possible. At his arrival in Longueuil Balbo was furious because of various small boats flitting about in the area where the armada had to land. As a newsman approached him with a microphone, Balbo let fly a few "unparliamentary invectives", which he thought might have gone through on the radio.[38] In Montréal the Italians were welcomed by Canadian Minister of Marine Alfred Duranleau.[39]
During the flight between Montréal and Chicago, due to a storm above Lake Erie, the planned route had to be changed and moved 100 km north towards the Nottawasaga River, Detroit, Lake Huron and Toledo.[40] The aviators reached Chicago on July 15, led by Balbo's aircraft which landed at 6PM CDT on Lake Michigan. The armada was escorted by 42 planes from Selfridge Field, Michigan. While the Italian SM.55 glided down in turn, the US Army planes in formation spelled "Italia" over the heads of the crowds. Balbo was welcomed by Admiral Wat Tyler Cluverius Jr., the Mayor of Chicago Edward Joseph Kelly and other dignitaries. Official reception took place at 7:25 PM on board the USS Wilmette.[2]The aviators left Chicago Harbor at 12:43 GMT on July 19 escorted by 36 American fighter planes till Toledo. They then reached Angola at 14:10, Cleveland at 15:25, and around 17 the Italians flew above Niagara Falls. After having sighted the Hudson River at 19:20, Balbo spotted Manhattan and the Italian SS Rex. Balbo's squadron touches water in Jamaica Bay, New York City at 20:00.[41]
Mine is the honor of extending on behalf of the state of Illinois, sincere greetings and thrice hearty welcome to you and your squadron of gallant and heroic conquerors of the air. To this official salutation is added the enthusiastic congratulations of my fellow citizens and myself for the courageous and successful and history-making flight you all have just completed.
An Epoch-Making Occasion.
The occasion is epoch-making. It epitomizes, dramatically and forcefully, the progress of the world in the last hundred years: it presages the yet uncharted progress that is to be the fortune of the world in the century to come. Your daring and marvelous flight from Italy to Chicago marks another thrilling victory of man and science over the forces of nature, and the passing of another milestone in the steady advance of air transportation.
History repeats itself by your flight. Just as Columbus was the first to sail the uncharted seas to our shores, so you, Gen. Balbo, and your courageous band have piloted the first armada of flying boats from Europe to North America. You have brought us the living emphatic proof of the development of practical aviation.
All hail the distinguished visitors from Italy. All hail Gen. Balbo, stateman, pioneer, hero and apostle of the hour.
Greeting front the Cabinet.
Over a radio broadcasting system Secretary of War Dern greeted the flyers from Philadelphia, and Rear Admiral William H. Stanton, acting secretary of the navy, from Washington expressed delight at the safe arrival of the armada.
Travel 135 Miles an Hour.
The pace was steady and only a little under 135 miles an hour for the whole trip. At 12:35 p. m. about 200 miles to Belleville, Ont., had been covered. Bowmanville, Ont. was reached at 1:22 p. m. To the great disappointment of throngs who stood in the rain at Toronto the armada kept to the north, and at 1:45 p. m. Gen. Balbo radioed that he was over Lake Simcoe and pointing for Nottawasaga bay on Lake Huron.
This course was kept and the fleet passed over Port Huron, Mich., at 2:47 p. m., turning south and driving for Detroit, which Gen. Balbo had promised would be on his route. So swift was the approach of the Italians that the army planes at Selfridge field, Mich., waiting to escort the armada, were caught almost unaware.
As the USAF armada approached westernSicily around midnight from Apr. 14 to 15, it was detected by early warningradars of the AMI and several F-104Ss were scrambled in response. One of theirpilots, Major Giorgio Riolo from 4th Stormo, recalled:
The 1st Canadian Infantry Division and the 1st Canadian Army Tank Brigade, under the command of Major-General G.G. Simonds, sailed from Great Britain in late June 1943. En route, 58 Canadians were drowned when enemy submarines sank three ships of the assault convoy, and 500 vehicles and a number of guns were lost. Nevertheless, the Canadians arrived late in the night of July 9 to join the invasion armada of nearly 3,000 Allied ships and landing craft.
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