ST JOHN’S AIR FORCE

As Italian military aviation struggled to get back on its feet in the wake of World War Two, an unlikely fleet of Savoia-Marchetti SM82s in the markings of the Order of St John managed to fly on Order of Malta personnel after landing at Lourdes in a Savoia- Marchetti SM82PW during 1951. ORDER OF MALTA Visitors to the Italian Air Force Museum at Vigna di Valle, north of Rome, might be forgiven for wondering at a strange roundel on the