poor tactics because italian forces were led by Rodolfo Graziani, an expert of colonial warfare but little suitable for a modern mechanized war......
indeed sometimes italians fight hard, such as Folgore at el alamein, Giovani Fascisti division at Bir el Gubi, Alpini in Russia, the cavalry at...
Two photos of Guillet in Ethiopia :) [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
This is the story of Amedeo Guillet, a forgotten Italian hero and a great soldier, an exemple of sense of duty and loyality. Enjoy :) In the...
There are some things to write about this battle ;). The fascists italians volunteers were not true soldiers,only Littorio Division was combat...
you can try on wiki North African Campaign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia seems quite correct, according to some books i've read
well, i've found some interesting stuff :D First of all, sources of the informations: Nino Arena - Per l'onore d'Italia, Storia del Rgt. Arditi...
I totally agree whit TiredOldSoldier :) Also i think that could be usefull open a little chapter about invasion of Ethiopia. This war is always...
unfortunately the website is only a presentation of the book, very few words are for arnhem: "...Assegnati al 2° Btg. Pionieri (Magg. Gestner)...
LOL true :D
ok :) Nice find JC! it's confirmed that the 4a Fallshirmjager division was full off italian volunteers, so it's historically confirmed the use of...
mm never heard about that. i will ask to some ex paratroopers that i know and look in some italian website
indeed we don't tolerate to be considered as inferior.. like anyone i suppose. but hitler's plan of "grandeur" were only for germany of course not...
this is a good question :) Well, there wasn't a rescue plan for the teams in Algeria and Tunisia, they would have to surrender after the action....
well, it is not cavalry but mounted infantry. Using cavalry means charge the enemy on horse, in this case russians use horses like bike or jeep,...
ADRA EQUIPMENT It seems difficult distinguish an ADRA operator from a "normal" paratrooper, the equipment is the same, whit some exception: the...
Ok, understand now :) It talks about all the partisans from september 8th 1943 to april 25th 1945. But i don't think there were more than 80.000...
Jeffin; of course you know the song of the video that you have linked "faccetta nera" do you know the words? it talks about the italian conquest...
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mmh 330.000 partisans seems too many :confused: maybe considering also informators, spies and so on. But i think no more than 80.000 fighters...
