Oleksandr

“The last of the celebrated seaplane racers designed by ing. Castoldi, the MC.72, despite not participating in a Schneider Trophy event, established - once finally developed - numerous world speed records, culminating in 1934 with the absolute world speed record for seaplanes of 709.209 km/h, a record still unbroken in this category of aircraft.”
― Luigino Caliaro, Aeronautica Macchi Fighters: C.200 Saetta, C.202 Folgore, C.205 Veltro

“Meanwhile, on leaving its frontier positions, XI Corps was ordered to lock up all bunkers there and hand the keys to the staff of the 53rd Division. But this division, held in reserve by Corap, was subsequently moved southwards. The bunkers were to remain locked, and inaccessible.”
― Alistair Horne, To Lose a Battle: France 1940

“In captivity, the Germans attempted to get Kontradmirał Unrug, an ethnic German, to switch sides and join the Kriegsmarine — but he refused. Indeed, although a native German speaker, Unrug refused to speak anything but Polish to his captors during interrogation.”
― Robert Forczyk, Case White: The Invasion of Poland 1939

“In 1993 Aermacchi signed a collaboration agreement with the russian company Yakovlev covering the development of a new trainer, the Yak/AEM-130, which made its first flight in 1996. The partnership with Yakovlev ended in 1999, but Aermacchi continued the development of the design which emerged as the twin-jet M.346.”
― Luigino Caliaro