"Italian Army of WW2" Topic
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| Tango01 | 03 Sep 2014 10:30 p.m. PST |
"Despite Mussolini's ambitions for Italy the army was ill prepared for war. Following a poor performance against France, the Italian invasion of Greece turned into a humiliating failure. There equipment was generally poor and organisation was well below modern standards. The Italian army in 1940 consisted of some 2 million men in 73 divisions. The forces marshalled for the invasion of Greece are set out in the feature article Blunder in the Mountains together with a description of the many command failures. After the German invasion of Greece the Italian army occupied large parts of the western Balkans until the Italian armistice in 1943. This involved countering the growing partisan and resistance movements in Yugoslavia, Albania and Greece…"
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| venezia sta affondando | 03 Sep 2014 10:41 p.m. PST |
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