At one point, she also claimed that it didn't happen at a checkpoint, but that the military chased their car. Wouldn't it be kind of hard to shoot into the engine block from the rear? Or was the car speeding in reverse?
Apparently you are not aware of your WWII history. The Italians were second only to the french in display of their fighting skills.
The Capaccino Ca 161.3 was a twin engine aircraft arranged in a push-pull configuration. The rear engine was more powerful than the forward engine and could extract the pilot from any danger faster than he could encounter it.
All right...all right. But it is as credible as Sgrena's story.