 Encouraged by the success of this first operation, Mussolini began sending a steady stream of munitions, personnel, and supplies under the name of "Aviación Legionaria", "Aviazione Legionaria".Besides military targets, the "Aviazione Legionaria" carried out a great number of strategic bombings of cities in the Spanish Republican rear area, intended to terrify the civilian population into surrender.The most significant of these was the 1936 bombing of Madrid ordered by General Franco, in which the city's residential areas were subject to heavy bombardment – with the exception of the upper class Salamanca district, which was assumed to contain many Nationalist supporters.