Deacon, thank you very much for the links, really interesting.

Eagle, all the 202s and 205s have that hole, but it's not for the cannon. Honestly I don't know why the spinner was made like that, I guess they fixed it to the hub via that hole?
Gatt, where are you?

EDIT: OMG! I just finished watching them all. Amazing!

Rare footage of a C.200 of first series with the closed cockpit.... Italian Stukas... Fiat BR.20... fighters strafing Tobruk (in the second one).... torpedoes against a British convoy headed to Malta! Great stuff!

And the speaker who call the Spitfires "Sputafuoco"... the literal translation in Italian (you couldn't use foreign words in Italy during fascism... just like in France now!

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I guess they are taken from the Istituto Luce archive... there you'll find a lot of this movies, you just have to register to the site, it's for free. Unfortunately, the site is in Italian only (we're just like the French!

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