Silver Medal of Military Valor
The Silver Medal of Military Valor is an Italian medal for gallantry.
Ernest Hemingway as an Italian Front Red Cross ambulance driver.
Italo Balbo was an Italian fascist politician and Blackshirts' leader who served as Italy's Marshal of the Air Force, Governor-General of Italian Libya and Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa. Due to his young age, he was sometimes seen as a possible successor to dictator Benito Mussolini.
Italo Balbo
Italo Balbo (center) during World War I in 1918
Balbo (left) and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini
Poster for Italo Balbo's transatlantic flight to the Century of Progress in Chicago