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Italo Balbo
Italo Balbo was an Italian Fascist leader and aviator, one of the organisers of the March on Rome in 1922. As air minister he led celebrated mass transatlantic flights in 1930–31 and 1933. Governor of Libya from 1934, he built the coastal highway and brought thousands of Italian settlers. He was shot down by Italian anti-aircraft fire over Tobruk in 1940.
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