Italian Gen. Italo Balbo’s arrival in Chicago on July 15, 1933 was a spectacular performance freighted with future history.
Gen. Italo Balbo, center, shakes hands with Italian Americans at the Drake Hotel on July 15, 1933, in Chicago. Balbo was returning from a ceremony at Soldier Field where he and his flying companions were greeted by federal, state, city and World’s Fair officials and cheered by a crowd of 60,000 people.
Gen. Italo Balbo lands his seaplane, one of a squadron of 24 planes, on a flight from Italy to Chicago's Century of Progress World’s Fair on July 15, 1933.“Seagulls flew ahead of the planes as if to show them how to do it,” wrote a Tribune reporter who watched them pass over the site of Chicago’s 1933 World’s Fair and the Loop. “One large gull circled and banked and soared near the planes as they came down lower and lower, facing North and heading for the shelter of the breakwater.
“The City Council has decreed that a thoroughfare leading to the fairgrounds from downtown streets shall be known as Balbo Avenue.” By 1933, it was clear that the next war would be fought with huge airplanes carrying bombs to distant targets, and would fly in formation for mutual protection. Balbo’s flight would show that Italy was ready to meet the challenge.
The next day, there was a Michigan Avenue parade in the Italians’ honor. At the fair’s Indian Village, Sioux dancers encircled Balbo as he was dubbed Chief Flying Eagle.
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