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Comando Supremo (Supreme Command) was the highest command echelon of the Italian Armed Forces between June 1941 and May 1945. Its predecessor, the Stato Maggiore Generale (General Staff), was a purely advisory body with no direct control of the several branches of the armed forces and with very little staff.
The campaign ended when Army Group C surrendered unconditionally to the Allies on 2 May 1945, one week before the formal German Instrument of Surrender. Both sides committed war crimes during the conflict, and the independent states of San Marino and Vatican City surrounded by Italian territory also suffered damage.
World War II began in Europe on 1 September 1939 [1] [2] with the German invasion of Poland and the United Kingdom and France's declaration of war on Germany two days later on 3 September 1939. Dates for the beginning of the Pacific War include the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War on 7 July 1937, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] or the earlier Japanese ...
On 25 August 1944 the Eighth Army launched Operation Olive, attacking on a three Corps front up the eastern flank of Italy into the Gothic Line defences. By the first week in September, the offensive had broken through the forward defences of the Gothic Line and the defensive positions of the Green I line and United States Fifth Army entered the offensive in central Italy attacking towards ...
La guerra al fronte Russo. Il Corpo di Spedizione Italian (CSIR). Milano 1947 (Italian) Michalopoulos, Dimitris & Tramonti, Luigi, "Cristianesimo Positivo e Campagna di Russia", Periodico Daily, 27 novembre 2018 (Italian) Mario Veronesi, La mia Russia. Diario di una guerra, Italian University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-88-8258-104-6
A secondary system consists of the "bengalotto," a slow-burning pyrotechnic device that is manually ignited and mounted on the weapons sight, burning for 2 minutes. On the passage of the flammable liquid, operated by the lever on the lance, it launched a dart of up to 20 meters range, which produced a heat zone 35 meters wide and 15 deep. [ 1 ]
On 2 November, a squadron of 15 Italian CANT Z.1007 bombers, with Fiat CR.42 fighter escorts headed towards Thessaloniki and was intercepted by Greek PZL P.24 fighters of the 22nd Squadron. The Greek flying ace second lieutenant Marinos Mitralexis shot down one bomber and being out of ammunition, aimed the nose of his PZL P.24 at the tail of a ...
Landings were made in the early hours of 10 July from 2:45am on 26 main beaches spread along 170 kilometres (105 mi) of the southern and eastern coasts of the island between the town of Licata [64] where the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division, under the command of Major General Lucian Truscott, landed at Torre di Gaffe, red beach, and Mollarella and ...