User:Gian piero milanetti

I was born in ROMA in 20th century. I teach Italian, History and Geography in Roman public schools.
 * I am member of "Ordine Nazionale dei Giornalisti". I have written for Italian Newspapers "Il Messaggero", "Il Tempo", "Il Gazzettino di Venezia" and "Il Giornale" of Milan -  http://www.ilgiornale.it/autore/gian_piero_milanetti/id=5480 - about history, culture, chronicle, politics, show business.


 * I become interested in aviation since I was I child, thanks to my father, Ennio Milanetti, that was an engine and armament mechanic of Italian ace Luigi Gorrini during World War II.


 * I wrote an historical aviation novel about Italian Regia Aeronautica. This book is beeing evalued by several publishers.


 * March 2010: I win the literary contest for short aviation novels - from well-known aviation publisher IBN Editore http://www.ibneditore.it/chisiamo.htm (Aviation Publisher) in Rome - "Penna alata" http://www.ibneditore.it/Vincitori%20penna%20alata_Layout%201.pdf along with the famous Italian aviation historian Nicola Malizia and other authors. The book with our short novels has been released on 1st of June 2010. The title is: "Bomba a bordo e altri racconti", by AA.VV ("Autori Vari"= various authors).

http://www.gaffi.it/cgi-bin/front_end/libri?id=1592 is delivered to the Italian bookshops Producing this book took about twentythree years (yes!) and is the story of a child whose elder brother ask her mother to be beaten with the father trousers belt because he has been bad: "Mémami, mamma" means, actually: "Beat me".
 * 17 November 2010: My first novel - intitled: "Ménami, Mamma!" (Beat me, mama!), Roma, Alberto Gaffi Editore, 2010. ISBN 9788861650787.

"Penna Alata 2010-2011 Edition" for aviation short novels: http://www.ibneditore.it/Penna_alata.htm with a story inspired by Lydia Litvyak. http://www.aviolibri.it/prodotti/8694_aa_vv_oltre_l_orizzonte_dal_concorso_letterario_penna_alata_2_.php?page=2&ordina=data_inserimento
 * April 2011: I won - again! - the literary contest

http://ita.calameo.com/books/00079629725fc0c6b5607
 * April 2011 (2): My first aviation history book "Le Streghe della Notte - la storia non detta delle aviatrici sovietiche della seconda guerra mondiale" (The Night Witches - The untold story of the Soviet Airwomen of GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR), with many tenths of never issued pictures in Western countries and new informations about those patriotic Heroines, some of them collected by former KGB officers.

http://www.calameo.com/books/00079629725fc0c6b5607
 * 22 December 2011 - The second edition of the book is released. It has 326 pictures, most of them never published, and new data and information that cast new light on the feats of the Soviet airwomen and reveal who shot down Lydia Litvyak and Katya Budanova:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Ba8kgy8ks http://ita.calameo.com/books/0007962970add6f969d44
 * 12 October 2012: the Italian Public Television Channel, RAI 2, broadcast a documentary based on "Le Streghe della Notte", inside the program "Voyager"
 * January 2013: IBN Publisher releases my book in English "Soviet Airwomen of the Great Patriotic War - A pictorial history". It has 505 rare pictures of the Russian aviatrixes of WWII. It is regarded as a masterpiece by famous American aviation historian, Henry Sakaida.


 * 2014: Prague's Publisher "Grada" acquires the rights to print my book "Soviet Airwomen" in Czech Republic. The book is released in June, with 2000 copies of circulation. http://www.grada.cz/sovetske-letkyne-ve-velke-vlastenecke-valce_8073/kniha/katalog/


 * 15 December 2015 - German tv channel ZDF releases a documentary about the Soviet Airwomen, that I helped to produce with photos, footages, and an interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-YEopXM02w&t=2389s


 * 3 March 2017 - IBN Publisher releases my book "Gli Angeli Sterminatori" about the female snipers of Red Army during WWII http://ita.calameo.com/books/000796297b2b6e8a4c537

Original Entries Created

 * Italian World War II Pilots and "Aces" 
 * Luigi Gorrini
 * Mario Visintini
 * Franco Lucchini
 * Teresio Vittorio Martinoli


 * Soviet Pilots
 * Aleksey Frolovich Solomatin

Contributed to:

 * Regia Aeronautica
 * Italian World War II Aircraft
 * Caproni Ca.135
 * Fiat CR.32
 * Fiat CR.42
 * Fiat G.50
 * Fiat G.55
 * Macchi C.200
 * Macchi C.202
 * Macchi C.205
 * Reggiane Re.2000
 * Reggiane Re.2001
 * Reggiane Re.2005
 * Savoia-Marchetti SM.75
 * Savoia-Marchetti SM.79
 * Savoia-Marchetti SM.81
 * Savoia-Marchetti SM.82
 * CANT Z. 506
 * CANT Z. 1007


 * Other Axis World War II Aircraft
 * Messerschmitt Bf 109
 * Messerschmitt Me. 262
 * Messerschmitt Me. 163
 * Focke-Wulf Fw 190
 * IAR-80


 * Allied World War II Aircraft
 * Supermarine Spitfire
 * Hawker Hurricane
 * Gloster Gladiator
 * Brewster Buffalo


 *  Great Patriotic War pilots
 * Lydia Litvyak
 * Katya Budanova
 * Marina Raskova
 * Valentina Grizodubova


 *  Soviet Great Patriotic War aircraft
 * Yakovlev Yak-1
 * Yakovlev Yak-3
 * Yakovlev Yak-7
 * Yakovlev Yak-9
 * Polikarpov I-15
 * Polikarpov I-16
 * Lavochkin La-5
 * WWII Pilots
 * George Beurling
 * Marmaduke Pattle
 * Franco Bordoni-Bisleri
 * Adriano Visconti
 * Furio Niclot-Doglio
 * Hans-Joachim Marseille
 * WWII Jagdgeschwader
 * JG 27