WW2 Italian Tanks Carro Armato M13/40 Kingdom of Italy (1940-At Least 1954) Medium Tank – 710 Built The Carro Armato M13/40 was an Italian medium tank used with mixed results by the Italian Regio Esercito (English: Royal Army) from 1940 to 1943 in North Africa, the Balkans, and the...
In June 1942, the C.S.I.R. was nominally disbanded and with the arrival of new fresh… Articles The Italian Air Force in Russia, July 1941-March 1942 byGiulio PoggiaroniMay 28, 2024 On June 22, 1941, Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. For… ...
The First Tanks in Russia Shortly before the February Revolution (March 1917), the Russian government, seeking a way to turn the tide on the Eastern Front, initiated negotiations with France and Great Britain to acquire tanks, at first ordering no less than 390 Schneider CA1s, before canceling...
1943: The Italian occupation of the Greek Ionian islands and the massacre of the Acqui Division by the Germans The sad fate of pilot officer Frederick Ainley and the RAF Martin Maryland that force-landed on Zakynthos island, Greece, March 29, 1941 Aircraft wrecks, WW2, WW2 in Greece, WW2...
The 5,222-ton Italian steam tanker Mirella, built in 1918, was on route from Tyne, England, United Kingdom for Livorno, Italy with 3,900 tons of coal when she was torpedoed by German submarine U-20 just off Lowestoft, Suffolk, England at 0315 hours. One member of her crew was lost...
Italy by parachute and glider. Less than 200 men with three anti-tank guns reached the bridge. They overpowered the guards and removed demolition charges placed by Italian engineers. However, unbeknown to the Allies, the machine gun battalion of a German parachute division had just been dropped...
While the First Battle of El Alamein was important in stalling the Italian advance into Egypt, it was the Second Battle of Alamein that severely damaged the Axis armies in North Africa. This allowed the Allies to chase them all the way to Tunisia, which ended with the capture of hundreds ...
These Italian tanks were easy prey to the British, South African and other Commonwealth and Allied forces, here a member of the crew of an Italian M13/40 tank giving himself up near Gazala. His captor might be a soldier of the Polish Independent Carpathian Rifles Brigade (part of the Britis...
Germany had ten panzer divisions in Normandy, including five from the Waffen SS. Most were experienced in the West and Russia. However, the average panzer division along the Atlantic Wall possessed merely seventy-five tanks. Owing to Allied deception measures, some German armored units failed to ...