1° Gruppo Caccia paid a high price for these successes, losing two C.205Vs and Sergente Maggiore Alverino Capatti. His Macchi crashed near the village of Dogato, where Capatti had been born. Tragically, among the locals who rushed to the wreckage was the pilot’s father, and when he realised that his son had been killed, he stood to attention and exclaimed, ‘He did his duty as an Italian’.