ITALIAN BOMBER FLOWN TO R.A.F. STATION.—An R.A.F. squadron leader flew this captured Italian bomber—a three-engined Caproni 133—back to an R.A.F. station_in the Sudan with its Italian pilot and engineer acting as crew. The aircraft had made a forced landing in a river bed in Eritrea, and was captured by Indian troops. It was refuelled, and the Italian pilot and engineer were taken back to it and persuaded to fly the aircraft to an aerodrome. for overhaul. After taking off the Italian pilot handed over the controls to the R.A.F. squadron leader. At the aerodrome a wounded British airman and some other passengers and mails were taken aboard. British gunners had been warned not to fire on the bomber on its flight to the Sudan, but at one aerodrome where the aircraft landed the British guard approached with fixed bayonets.

Evening Star, Issue 23865, 21 April 1941, Page 5

ITALIAN BOMBER FLOWN TO R.A.F. STATION.—An R.A.F. squadron leader flew this captured Italian bomber—a three-engined Caproni 133—back to an R.A.F. station_ in the Sudan with its Italian pilot and engineer acting as crew. The aircraft had made a forced landing in a river bed in Eritrea, and was captured by Indian troops. It was refuelled, and the Italian pilot and engineer were taken back to it and persuaded to fly the aircraft to an aerodrome. for overhaul. After taking off the Italian pilot handed over the controls to the R.A.F. squadron leader. At the aerodrome a wounded British airman and some other passengers and mails were taken aboard. British gunners had been warned not to fire on the bomber on its flight to the Sudan, but at one aerodrome where the aircraft landed the British guard approached with fixed bayonets.