Balbo, Italo, 1896-1940

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found: 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

found: 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)