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Italian soldier, 1915-18.
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Italian soldier, 1915-18.
Italian M13/40s from the 132nd Armored Division "Ariete" during an attack in the Battle of Gazala, June 10th, 1942.
The M13/40 was one of Italy's first real conventional medium tanks, armed with a 47mm gun in a fully rotating turret. It was meant to replace the M11/39 that came before it. Entering service in 1940, it would serve throughout the war and be upgraded into the M14/41 and M15/42, while also serving as the basis for a line of Semoventi, assault guns with larger guns for infantry support and anti-tank use.
Fun fact: Italian World War II tank names followed a specific convention. The first letter would be the tank's weight class, L for Leggero (Light), M for Mediano (Medium), and P for Pesante (Heavy). The following numbers referred to the tank's weight in tons and the year it was adopted. As such, for the M13/40, we can tell that it is a Medium Tank weighing 13 tons adopted in 1940!
1280-1280 Italian Bersaglieri on the Eastern Front (Southern Russia), WWII.
The table of Italian Regio Esercito aces published by the aviaition magazine Il Cielo on 25 March 1919. Portraits of Bedendo, Masiero and Riva were not available at the time, which meant that they had to be replaced by sketches of flying helmets. Pilots whose portraits were outlined in black had not survived the war
Photo and caption featured in Osprey Aircraft of the Aces • 89 Italian Aces of World War 1 by Paolo Varriale
Italian cavalry, 1910.
Italian camel artillery, during the Italo-Turkish War in Libya. 1911.
L'Ardito, military postmate commemorative, 1918