Word: vittorio
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Just as Franklin Roosevelt had taken his sons Elliott and Franklin Jr. to his meeting, so Benito took his son Vittorio-the aviator who five years ago loved to watch the floral explosion of bombs among the Ethiopians. Reich Marshal Hermann Göring thoughtfully presented Benito with an album of photographs which his second son Bruno, who died in a crash last month, had taken while visiting Germany's Atlantic air bases...
...acquitted himself on bombing missions in Ethiopia. He remembered the speed records, the flight to Brazil. He remembered the necessity of recalling him from the Balearics during the Spanish war, because the Reds seemed to be gunning for the boy. This son was the real flyer. It was Vittorio, not Bruno, who made a spectacle of himself describing bombs as "budding roses," killing as "exceptionally good fun"; this boy Bruno understood the air, and lived dangerously...
...left the hospital, went back to the field, and stared for a time at the scene of the crash. Then he returned to the bedside and sat there all night. The others quietly joined him: Donna Rachele, his own wife, a strong woman who opposed Bruno's flying; Vittorio, not such a good flyer, only a lieutenant while Bruno, nearly two years his junior, was a captain; Edda Ciano, the girl, who had very nearly been killed by British flyers during the Balkan fight. Bruno's pretty wife Gina was also there. The other Mussolinis-Anna, Maria...
...Pilot Vittorio Mussolini once gulped with delight as he watched his bombs burst amid Abyssinian tribesmen with "the impression of a budding rose." Foujita thinks that better artists than Vittorio should see sights like that. He plans to make at least 100 flights in warplanes. Then, he hopes, he may be able to "represent bombing situations" and "catch the true colors of clouds...
...with Fairey Sword-fishes-rickety biplanes trussed up with as many outside stays as grandma's corset. (These "string bags" nicked the French battleship Strasbourg as she fled from the Battle of Oran, had crippled three heavy units of the Italian Fleet at Taranto, slowed the Vittorio Veneto in the Battle of Matapan, had crippled the Bismarck.) But this operation was being carried out by brand-new, twin-engined monoplane Bristol Beauforts, clean as whistles...