Aldo Pellegrini (general)

Aldo Pellegrini (28 August 1888 – 7 December 1940) was an Italian military officer and aviator. He served initially in the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy), transitioning to the Regia Aeronautica (Royal Italian Air Force) upon its formation. A veteran of the Italo-Turkish War and World War I, where he earned multiple decorations for valor piloting seaplanes, he became a key figure in Italo Balbo's pioneering mass formation flights across the Mediterranean and Atlantic, including serving as Vice Commander of the Decennial Air Cruise in 1933, for which he received the Gold Medal of Aeronautic Valor. He reached the rank of Brigadier General (Generale di squadra aerea). Pellegrini died in an aircraft accident in December 1940 while serving as Vice President of the Italian Armistice Commission with France.