Teresio Vittorio Martinoli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Teresio Vittorio Martinoli

Italian flying ace

Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1917

Place of Birth: Novara, Piedmont, Italy

Date of Death: 25-Aug-1944

Profession: aircraft pilot

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Teresio Vittorio Martinoli, MOVM, (26 March 1917 – 25 August 1944) was an Italian World War II fighter pilot in the Regia Aeronautica and in the Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force (ICBAF). During the war, he fought over Libya and Tunisia, in North Africa, on Malta, and was involved in the defence of the Italian mainland.
Martinoli has been credited with 22 air victories and 14 shared destroyed in 276 sorties.
Flying the Fiat C.R.42 biplane and Macchi C.202 and C.205 monoplanes, he shot down: a Gloster Gladiator, Bristol Blenheims, Hawker Hurricanes, Curtiss P-40s, Spitfires, and a Junkers Ju 52, the last after the Armistice of Cassibile. He lost his life in a flying accident on 25 August 1944, while converting from the C.205 to the P-39 Airacobra.