Giovanni Ancillotto, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Giovanni Ancillotto

Italian military personnel

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1896

Place of Birth: San Donà di Piave, Veneto, Italy

Date of Death: 18-Oct-1924

Profession: aircraft pilot

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Giovanni Ancillotto

  • Lieutenant Giovanni 'Giannino' Ancillotto (15 November 1896 – 18 October 1924) was an Italian World War I flying ace credited with 11 confirmed aerial victories.
  • Rather unusually, he served solely with aviation while he was in the military, beginning in the lowest rank.
  • Among his aerial victories as a fighter pilot were three over enemy observation balloons right after the Battle of Caporetto.
  • As an example of the hazards of balloon busting, on 5 December 1917 Ancillotto returned to base with singed swatches of the third balloon's fabric adhering to his damaged fighter plane. Having survived the war as a Tenente with one Gold and three Silver awards of the Medal for Military Valor, Ancillotto flew a civil aircraft nonstop from Rome to Warsaw on 11 September 1919.
  • In May 1921, he transited the Andes Mountains in Peru. Giovanni Ancillotto died in an auto accident at Caravaggio, Lombardy on 18 October 1924.

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