biography
pronunciation:
[balboh]
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1896–1940)
|
| biography:
| Italian politician and aviator, born in Ferrara, NE Italy. One of the leaders of the March on Rome, he was the Fascist movement's military organizer. He was the first minister of aviation in Italy, and led mass flights to Brazil (1929) and the USA (1933). In 1933 he became Governor of Libya. He opposed the alliance with Germany and the antisemitic laws. In 1940 he was killed when his plane was brought down at Tobruk. |
|
|
