Giuseppe Santoro (9 November 1894, in Naples – 2 June 1975) was a general in the Italian Air Force, Deputy Chieff of Staff of the Regia Aeronautica during World War II.

Santoro was born in the San Ferdinando district of Naples on 9 November 1894, and after enlisting in the Royal Italian Army he participated in the First World War as lieutenant in the 12th Field Artillery Regiment and later as navigator in the Air Service of the Royal Italian Army.

[2][3] On 1 November 1939 Santoro became Deputy Chief of Staff of the Regia Aeronautica, a post he held until the Armistice of Cassibile, serving successively under Francesco Pricolo, Rino Corso Fougier and Renato Sandalli.

[4][2][3] On 1 March 1942 he participated in a meeting that took place at the General Staff of the Regia Aeronautica, which was also attended by Generals Vincenzo Velardi, Umberto Cappa and Simon Pietro Mattei, and by Colonel Mario Porru-Locci, in which Lieutenant Colonel Amedeo Paradisi was chosen as pilot of the Savoia-Marchetti SM.

[5][2][6][7][3][8] He left active service in 1949, and in 1957 he published the official history of the Italian Air Force in World War II (L'Aeronautica italiana nella seconda guerra mondiale), in which he denounced the shortcomings and mistakes made by the military and industrial leadership in the years preceding the outbreak of the war.