i posted this on another forum i belong to and one of the guys from italy filled in the gaps with the info....and a picture of the pilot.
The wreckage of the fighter of the Regia Aeronautica " Reggiane RE 2000", registration number 8281, sank off Porto Venere during the Second World War.
The hunt was piloted by Luigi Guerrieri , as a result , he received the Silver Medal of Military Valour . On April 16, 1943 , the engine was a failure and the pilot , while en route to return to the base of Sarzana , he was forced to a ditching . With great skill , came out unscathed from the accident being able to dive before the plane disappeared into the waves .
Was recovered just hours after the men 's air rescue parties from Cadimare Airfield . But , ironically , he lost his life in '46 during a test flight in Galatina , Puglia, at the controls of a twin-engine fighter of American construction . It had been a few days from the historic referendum on the future of Italy and the young pilot was the first dead crashed in the newborn Air Force Italian Republic.