| LC control no. | n 80137703 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Balbo, Italo, 1896-1940 |
| Associated country | Italy |
| Associated place | Libya |
| Birth date | 1896-06-06 |
| Death date | 1940-06-28 |
| Place of birth | Ferrara (Italy) |
| Place of death | Tobruk (Libya) |
| Field of activity | Aeronautics Fascism Italy--Colonies--Africa--Administration |
| Affiliation | Italy. Ministero dell'aeronautica Italy. Regio Esercito. Alpini Partito nazionale fascista (Italy) |
| Profession or occupation | Air pilots Colonial administrators |
| Found in | Author's Da Roma a Odessa, 1929. Wikipedia, Nov. 5, 2014 (born 6 June 1896, Ferrara, Italy, died 28 June 1940, Tobruk, Libya, aviator, Fascist organizer, Marshal of the Air Force, heir apparent to Mussolini) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo_Balbo> Wikipedia, May 12, 2022 (Italo Balbo, Italian fascist politician and Blackshirts' leader who served as Italy's Marshal of the Air Force, Governor-General of Libya, and Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa; ; during World War I he joined the Regio Esercito and served with the Alpini mountain infantry; after the war he completed studies in Florence, obtaining a law degree and a degree in social sciences; joined the newly created Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF) in 1921; one of the four principal architects (Quadrumviri del Fascismo) of the March on Rome that brought Mussolini and the Fascists to power in 1922; in 1923, after the 'March on Rome', he became a founding member of the Gran Consiglio del Fascismo; appointed Secretary of State for Air in 1926, and went through intensive course of flying instruction; began building the Italian Royal Air Force; became General of the Air Force in 1928, and Minister of the Air Force in 1929; led popularization of aviation in Italy and abroad; in 1933 he was given the government of Italian Libya, where he lived for the remainder of his life; hostile to anti-semitism, the only leading Fascist to oppose Mussolini's alliance with Nazi Germany; accidentally killed by friendly fire when the plane he was a passenger on was shot down over Tobruk by Italian anti-aircraft guns who misidentified it as British) |
| National bib agency no. | 1032E0429E |
| Associated language | ita |
| Quality code | nlc |
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