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TIL: In 1947, after the Italian bomber corps was disbanded post-WWII, some planes of ambiguous purpose were transferred, pending status clarity, to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, the sovereign successors of the Knights Hospitaller of Crusader fame. The planes were later returned to Italy.

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