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The Royal Air Force ( RAF ) is the ___MASK69___ ' s aerial warfare force . Formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918 , it is the oldest independent air force in the world . Following victory over the Central Powers in 1918 the RAF emerged as , at the time , the largest air force in the world . Since its formation , the RAF has taken a significant role in British military ___MASK51___ , in particular , playing a large part in the Second World War where it fought its most famous campaign , the Battle of Britain . The Italian Royal Air Force ( Regia Aeronautica Italiana ) was the name of the air force of the ___MASK100___ . It was established as a service independent of the Royal Italian Army from 1923 until 1946 . In 1946 , the monarchy was abolished and the ___MASK100___ became the Italian Republic , whereupon the name of the air force changed to Aeronautica Militare Italiana . The ___MASK100___ was a state founded from 1861 , when King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy , to 1946 , when a constitutional referendum led civil discontent to abandon the monarchy and form the Italian Republic . The state was founded as a result of the unification of Italy under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia , which can be considered its legal predecessor state . The Battle of Ganale Doria ( also known as the Battle of Genale Dorya or as the Battle of Genale Wenz ) was a battle on the `` southern front '' fought during the Second Italo - Abyssinian War . The battle consisted almost entirely of air attacks by the Italian Royal Air Force ( Regia Aeronautica ) against an advancing and then withdrawing Ethiopian army under Ras Desta Damtu . The battle was primarily `` fought '' in the area along the Genale Doria River valley between Dolo and Negele Boran . Technically , Ras Desta Damtew launched an Ethiopian offensive against the Italian forces in Somaliland . However , General Rodolfo Graziani carried out his active defense so vigorously that it became an offensive . The Royal Italian Army ( Italian : " Regio Esercito Italiano ") was the army of the ___MASK100___ from the unification of Italy in 1861 to the birth of the Italian Republic in 1946 . In World War II the Royal Army fought first as part of the Axis ( 1939  43 ) and then as part of the Allies ( 1943  45 ). After the monarchy ended , the army changed its name to become the Italian Army (" Esercito Italiano ").