At the end of 1917, 5 N11s were the flight line of the 5th Defense Section.
18 January 1918 the 108th Squadron was created with 12 N11s.
March 1918 a Section of N11s was available at the 301th Squadron and Naples-Capodichino Airport.
March 1918 4 N11s arrived and April 30th became 110th Squadron.
April 1918 the Bologna Defense Section has 3 N11s until the month of October as well as the 242ª Squadriglia.
Also in April 1918 the 304nd Section received one N11.
1918 the Rimini-Riccione Defense Section has 4 N11.
Since September 6, 1918, the 306th Squadron has a Section and in November it has 5 N11.
The Nieuport 11 was on the front lines until 1918 and afterward they were used in Defense of cities against Bombers and Zeppelin attacks.
L59 from the airfield in Bulgaria (about 1,000 km away)— and on the night of March 11/12 1918 bombed Naples. According to a German source, the airship successfully bombed the naval port and the gas works in Naples, as well as the steel mill and port in Bagnoli. It was a high-altitude attack, with L59 staying well above 10,000 feet.
The Naples daily paper, il Mattino, devoted more than half the front page (photo, above) the next morning to the raid. The paper said that the raid had started at one o' clock in the morning and lasted for about 40 minutes. In all, about 20 bombs had fallen. None, according to the paper, had hit a military target; all had fallen to the north of the port in the center of town, killing 16 civilians and injuring more than 40. The paper made no mention of a raid on the steel mill in Bagnoli. Most of the rest of the coverage is rhetoric about the barbarism of Italy's WW1 enemies, Germany and Austria. Add Naples, said the paper, to the list of heroic cities such as London, Paris and Venice, all of which had had to withstand such Teutonic savagery. In the days following the attack, the paper reported that the officer in charge of anti-aircraft defence in Naples had been relieved of his command.
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