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Hello Sid (my daughter asked me if you are - God save - the villain of the Toy Story picture; I assured her you are not, please confirm). The Brennero Division was a true motorized one formed during the second half of 1941. On Summer 1942 it was planned to send her in North Africa from Greece but th...

Hi Sid. They had to be the Cavarly (Celere) Division Eugenio di Savoia, crossing from Ctoatia to Slovenia, and the motorized Division Brennero, coming from Greece to Albaina in wiew to sail at least for southern Italy; i.e. the only Italian mobile divisions available in the Balkans. On the armistice...

Hello gentlemen, according my sources the first Italian raid against German forces was a bombing sortie by 5 Cant.Z 1007 bis bombers, 88° Gruppo, on the Bonifacio strait between Sardinia and Corsica on 18 Sept. 1943. They lost a plane destroyed by ack ack and claimed some probable "results"...

The most authoritavive and complete Italian record of this action is: Tullio Marcon "Assalto a tre ponti", ed Ediprint, Siracura, 1993.
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Ciao Sid. I see we both agree about the strategical consequences of that raid on the Persian Gulf. It'interesting to consider too that only Italy tried to fight on that basin (not mentioning, of vourse, the short Iranian - British conflict fought on August 1941) sending there the unfortunate submari...

Hello Sid, your comment about the little raid performed by 5 S.82 started from Rodi Island on 18th Oct. 1940 and landing, after 4.200 km ant 15 hours at Zula, Eritrea, it's quite an interesting one. According the Italian sources the target (oil raphineries in Barhain Is.) was achieved; damages were,...

Sid is right. A) The only front where is possible to speak about massed attacks with the aide of armoured units (modest on the European scale, quite important in that theatre of war, is along the Giuba river, Somaliland. There the Italian cordon line, without any other strong point along the flat an...

I regret to read some mistakes about the Italian war in AOI (Italian East Africa during the 1940-1941 campaing, not to mention the next two years of resistence by many thousands of men and women, Italian, Eritreans and Ethiopians; ref. Enrico Cernuschi, La resistenza sconosciuta in Africa Orientale,...