The Ascari del Cielo were the first paratroopers of the Italian Armed Forces. They all were born in Libya and with Arab-Berber ethnicity. They constituted the majority of the troops of the Battalion "

Castel Benito was an airport of Tripoli created by the Italians in Italian Libya in the early 1930s. It was called RAF Castel Benito by the Allies after 1943.