Turin, Genoa, Milan, and La Spezia among other key urban cities in northwestern Italy were all on the French Air Force's extensive bombing list.
Of these, Turin in northwestern Italy had definitely suffered the most disastrous losses.
This was where the largest number of Italian troops was located and the place the French Air Force visited the most frequently.
Within the brief span from May 13th to May 17th, France had launched over 220 bombers, conducting more than 2,275 bombing runs, and dropped close to 135,000 bombs.
On May 18th after the bombing had concluded, the surroundings of Turin were still shrouded in gunsmoke, with deep craters and shattered buildings everywhere, narrating the city's torment over the past few days.
Unlike the Germans' bombings, the French showed no mercy in their bombing campaign against Italy, with a simple and clear purpose: to target Italy's transport hubs, military strongholds, industrial bases, and logistics warehouses.