Editing Gabriele D'Annunzio (section)

=== World War I ===
{{main|Flight over Vienna}}
[[File:Volantinodann.jpg|thumb|upright 1.2|Italian translation of the propaganda leaflet which D'Annunzio threw from his aeroplane during his flight above Vienna]]
After the start of [[World War I]], D'Annunzio returned to Italy and made public speeches in favor of Italy's entry on the side of the [[Triple Entente]]. Since taking a flight with [[Wilbur Wright]] in 1908, D'Annunzio had been interested in aviation. With the war beginning he volunteered and achieved further celebrity as a [[Fighter aircraft|fighter pilot]], losing the sight of an eye in a flying accident.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}

[[File:Gabriele DAnnunzio.jpg|thumb|D'Annunzio (left) with a fellow officer]]
In February 1918, he took part in a daring, if militarily irrelevant, [[Bakar mockery|raid on the harbour]] of [[Bakar, Croatia|Bakar]] (known in Italy as {{lang|it|La beffa di Buccari}}, lit. ''the Bakar Mockery''), helping to raise the spirits of the Italian public, still battered by the [[Battle of Caporetto|Caporetto disaster]]. On 9 August 1918, as commander of the 87th fighter squadron "La Serenissima", he organized one of the great feats of the war, leading nine planes in a 700-mile round trip to drop propaganda leaflets on [[Vienna]]. This is called in Italian "il Volo su Vienna", "the [[Flight over Vienna]]".<ref>{{cite EB1922|wstitle=D'Annunzio, Gabriele}}</ref>