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Furio Niclot Doglio
Furio Niclot Doglio, MOVM (24 April 1908 – 27 July 1942) was an Italian test pilot and World War II fighter pilot in the "Regia Aeronautica". Doglio set nine world aviation records in the 1930s during his time as a test pilot. During the war, he claimed seven kills (six of them Spitfires), flying FIAT G. 50s and Macchi C. 202s, establishing himself as one of Italy's aces. Doglio was killed in combat on 27 July 1942 during the Siege of Malta
at the moment, had still not fired.
27 July was Beurling's "biggest day on Malta". That day, he shot down "Sergente" Faliero Gelli, and immediately afterwards, Captain Furio Niclot Doglio, both flying Macchi MC. 202s, "Regia Aeronautica"s best fighter. Niclot Doglio, who was diving to counter attack the head-on Spitfires of 126 Squadron and had misunderstood the warning waggling of wings of his wingman, "Maresciallo" Ennio Tarantola (who had seen the oncoming 249 Squadron fighters from