101 Vittorie Italiane Della Seconda Guerra Mondiale

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El Alamein

24.10.1942 L''Ariete', Brescia' & 'Folgore' Divisioni difendere con successo il Fronte Alamein.
("The Ariete Division, the Bersaglieri Battalion and units of the Brescia and Folgore Divisions fought magnificently. Montgomery's 13th Corps was able to make minor break throughs in the eastern minefield, but did not reach the main front line." The Foxes of the Desert, Paul Carell, p. 279, Bantam Books, 1962)

26.10.1942 Il 12 ° Reggimento Bersaglieri sorpassa l'2/17° Battaglione Australiano trincerato sulla Collina 28 (Point 29).
("Attacks were now launched on Hill 28 by elements of the 15th Panzer Division, the Littorio and a Bersaglieri Battalion, supported by the concentrated fire of all the local artillery and A.A ... In the evening part of the Bersaglieri Battalion succeeded in occupying the eastern and western edges of the hill." El Alamein: Desert Victory, John Strawson, p. 119, J M Dent & Sons Limited, 1981)
("On the morning of 28 October, tanks, lorried infantry and some of the groups of men who had dug in after previous unsuccessful attempts gathered for another attempt to retake Point 29. The 2/17th Battalion, which had taken over the positions around Point 29, had suffered heavy casualties and eventually it was decided to pull the infantry back from the exposed height to better positions in the open desert." Pendulum Of War: Three Battles at El Alamein, Niall Barr, p. 360, Random House, 2010)

28.10.1942 La divisione corazzata 'Littorio' sorpassa parte degli 133a Brigata britannica, 300 britannici catturati.
("In the early morning they attacked 133 British Lorried Infantry Brigade, which had been sent to relieve 'Snipe', but ended up to the north of it and was unable to dig its anti-tank guns into the rocky ground. The Axis assault virtually annihilated the British unit, knocking out their exposed anti-tank guns, killing sixty men, including their commander Colonel Murphy, and capturing 300 others." Iron Hulls, Iron Hearts: Mussolini's Elite Armoured Divisions in North Africa, Ian Walker, p. ?, Crowood, 2012)

30.10.1942 Il 10° Battaglione Bersaglieri sconfitto diversi attacchi australiani.
("These costly German attacks did succeed in restoring contact with the beleaguered 125th Panzergrenadier Regiment. 90th Light Division later praised the regiment and the Italian X Bersaglieri who clung to their posts even when 'surrounded on all sides, short of ammunition, food and water, unable to evacuate their many wounded; while withstanding 'attacks by an enemy superior in numbers and equipment'. During the morning, many of the German and Italian wounded were evacuated and more supplies brought into the salient." Pendulum Of War: Three Battles at El Alamein, Niall Barr, p. 380, Random House, 2010)

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02.11.1942 Squadre di cannone anticarro italiani del 7 ° Reggimento Bersaglieri distruggono 70 carri armati britannici. ("The Italian gunners proved especially effective as daylight broke and they opened fire from ranges as little as 20 yards. The consequences were predictable and destructive. In a matter of hours the 9th Armoured Brigade lost 70 of of it's compliment of 94 tanks." Battlefield Documentary Alamein, Dave Flitton, 2001)

03.11.1942 L Divisioni ''Ariete', 'Trieste' e 'Trento' coprire con successo la ritirata di Rommel.
("Enormous dust-clouds could be seen south and south-east of headquarters [of the DAK], where the desperate struggle of the small and inefficient Italian tanks of XX Corps was being played out against the hundred or so British heavy tanks which had come round their open right flank. I was later told by Major von Luck, whose battalion I had sent to close the gap between the Italians and the Afrika Korps, that the Italians, who at that time represented our strongest motorised force, fought with exemplary courage." The Rommel Papers, p. 325)

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Prigionieri di guerra australiani della Seconda Battaglia di Alamein

Grazie ancora Peppero, in ogni caso più sorprendente vittorie italiane

Ju 87 "Stuka" della Regia Aeronautica in Azione

10.01.1941 Secondo fonti della Regia Aeronautica, sempre smentite dallo Stato Maggiore britannico, il 10 gennaio venne danneggiata la portaerei H.M.S. Illustrious. (www.aereimilitari.org/forum/topic/1...ca-illustrious/ Danneggiamento della portaerei britannica ILLUSTRIOUS)
("Around midday on January 10, waves of Italian air force Ju87 Stukas attacked the ship, and six or seven thousandpound bombs hit their target, set fire to aviation fuel below decks and destroyed the carrier's steering system." Aces, Warriors and Wingmen, Wayne Ralph, Pag. 15, John Wiley & Sons, 2008 )
"January 10 marked the beginning of a continuous chase�the desperate effort to sink HMS Illustrious. In the afternoon, Ju.87s from the 237 Squadriglia scored a direct hit on the aircraft carrier and forced her to leave the formation and head towards Malta for shelter and repairs." http://worldatwar.net/chandelle/v3/v3n3/articles/stuka.html)

04.04.1941 La forza navale di Grecia dimostrò tutta la propria vulnerabilità ai Stuka italiane che costò il 4 aprile la grave perdita del cacciatorpediniere "Proussa".
("At about 1720 six 239a Squadriglia aircraft sunk the RHN destroyer Proussa in Dafnila Bay." Air War Over Greece and Albania 1940-1941, Alexis Mehtidis, p. 67, Ravi Rikhye)

20.04.1941 Migliaia di soldadi greci sbandati, in fuga in camion verso la Grecia, sono stati cosi massacrati lungo quella che è stata battezzata «autostrada della morte», e piloti della Regia Aeronautica ne hanno parlato di un «tiro al piccione». (www.alieuomini.it/pagine/dettaglio/..._n_al_n,54.html Bollettini di Guerra, N. 298 – N. 329, Aprile 1941)

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29.06.1941 Il cacciatorpediniere australiano HMAS "Waterhen" viene colpito e affondato da un attacco della 239ª Squadriglia.
("On 24 June 1941 Tarantola scored a direct hit on the destroyer HMAS Waterhen, which was attacked off the North African coast ..." Italian Aces of World War 2, Giorgio Apostolo, Richard Caruana, Pag.76, Osprey Publishing, 2012)


("Tribute to Maresciallo Ennio Tarantola by Ivan Berryman. Having already scored his first victory by shooting down an I-15 during the Spanish Civil War, Ennio Tarantola was to survive World War II with a total of eleven victories. His involvement in the Second World War began, however, as one of the elite dive bomber force, 102° Gruppo 'Bombardamento a Tuffo' which was made up of 209a and 239a Squadriglie, flying Junkers JU-87 Stukas. It was Tarantola who scored a direct hit on the destroyer HMAS WATERHEN." www.pinterest.com/pin/413134965793959403/)

10.07.1943 In mare, davanti alle coste siciliane, il cacciatorpediniere USS "Maddox" (211 morti) viene colpito e affondato da un attacco della 121° Squadriglia.
("Therefore, when Allied forces crosssed the narrows to launch Operation Husky on 10 July 1943, the dive-bomber response was entirely in the hands of the Italians ... The Regia Aeronautica had taken delivery of a bunch of Ju87Ds earlier in the year, but rather than re-equip their existing dive-bomber units, the 'Doras' had been used to form two new gruppi: 103° and 121° ... Still working up on Sardinia, the largely inexperienced crews were dispatched at once to southern Italy and Sicily to counter the invasion ...
A bomb from an unseen aircraft struck the destroyer's stern, blowing it apart 'in a gust of flame, smoke and debris'. In less than two minutes she had disappeared beneath the waves ... The surviving Doras of 121 Gruppo were to retire back to Sardina before the Sicilian campaign had run its 38-day course." Junkers Ju 87 Stukageschwader of North Africa and the Mediterranean, John Weal, Pag.81-82, Osprey Publishing, 1998)



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Gracie Tricolore per le preziose informazion

Regia Aeronautica in azione nel 1943

10.07.1943 In mare, davanti alle coste siciliane, il cacciatorpediniere USS "Maddox" (211 morti) viene colpito e affondato da un attacco della 121° Squadriglia.
("Therefore, when Allied forces crosssed the narrows to launch Operation Husky on 10 July 1943, the dive-bomber response was entirely in the hands of the Italians ... The Regia Aeronautica had taken delivery of a bunch of Ju87Ds earlier in the year, but rather than re-equip their existing dive-bomber units, the 'Doras' had been used to form two new gruppi: 103° and 121° ... Still working up on Sardinia, the largely inexperienced crews were dispatched at once to southern Italy and Sicily to counter the invasion ...
A bomb from an unseen aircraft struck the destroyer's stern, blowing it apart 'in a gust of flame, smoke and debris'. In less than two minutes she had disappeared beneath the waves ... The surviving Doras of 121 Gruppo were to retire back to Sardina before the Sicilian campaign had run its 38-day course." Junkers Ju 87 Stukageschwader of North Africa and the Mediterranean, John Weal, Pag.81-82, Osprey Publishing, 1998)

16.08.1943 Il 16 agosto, Le Landing Ship Tank LST-414 (britannico) viene colpito e affondato da un attacco della 132° Gruppo della Regia Aeronautica.
("Over the nights of 15 and 16th August the Sardinian-based trimotors sank near Cani Island (Bizerte), the British 2750-ton Tank Landing Ship LST-414 (credited to Capitano Carlo Faggioni) and ten miles off Cape Bougaroun, the 2700-ton steamer Empiore Kestrel (attacked by Capitano Giuseppe Cimicchi). Also on the night of 16 August, the US 7126-ton freighter Benjamin Contee, sailing from Bone harbour for Oran ... was torpedoed and damaged by Tenente Vezio Terzi 16 miles north of Cape de Garde." Savoia-Marchetti S.79 Sparviero Torpedo-Bomber Units, Marco Mattioli, Mark Postlethwaite p. 75-76, Osprey Publishing, 2014)

04.09.1943 L' 4 settembre, quattro grandi navi da sbarco americane, vennero colpite e affondati nei pressi della Reggio di Calabria. Le navi vennero attaccate e colpite da voli di Re.2002 del 5º Stormo d'Assalto della Regia Aeronautica.
("On September 4, 1943, they inflicted serious casualties on Anglo-American troops by repeatedly strafing the invasion beaches at Villa San Giovanni and Reggio Calabria, then attacked U.S. landing craft, sinking four LCTs and damaging several others before being bounced by 30 Spitfires." The Axis Air Forces, Frank Joseph, Pag. 23, ABC-CLIO, 2011)

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04.04.1941 L'3 aprile due plotoni motociclisti dell'8° Reggimento Bersaglieri e Divisione di Fanteria 'Sabratha' precedettero l'ingresso delle colonne tedesche a Benghazi in Nord Africa: l'operazione ideata dal colonnello Gino Fabris fu soprattutto un successo politico e propagandistico. Poco dopo giunsero a Benghazi gli altri reparti dell'3° Battaglione Esploratori Tedesco e i carri , completando così l'occupazione della città.

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13.04.1941 Durante tutta la notte del 13 e il mattino del 14 aprile, i reparti italiani in Albania dovettero difendersi dai ripetuti attacchi della divisione 'Jadranska'.

"For 48 hours the Serbs have been moving in wave upon wave through rain and snow against Scutari, on the southern shore of a lake of the same name, only to be mowed down by Fascist machine-gunners and scattered by Italian airmen, war front advices said. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=191...4,5315859&hl=en (Serb Attacks Beaten Off By Italians, Schenectady Gazette, 15 April 1941)

(www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=b...rsaglieri%­typed Pinterest)

16.04.1941 Il 16 aprile 1941, Il 4 ° Reggimento Bersaglieri entrarono a Koritza in Albania, costringendo al ritiro l'esercito britannico in Grecia.

"Their courage, like that of the defenders of the Metaxas line, was to no avail; as so often happens to troops occupying a static position in mobile warfare, the battle was being decided elsewhere … List now detached SS ‘Adolf Hitler’ from the main axis of advance of XXXXth corps and sent it forward in the direction of Koritsa. Far from counter-attacking, however, the demoralized Greeks gave way and thus allowed the Italians to occupy the town without resistance on 15 April. With 9th armoured division crossing the upper Aliakhmon and reaching Servia on the next day, the British forces on the Olympus found themselves surrounded on both flanks. following a decision made by Wilson three days earlier they now started falling back across Thessaly to Thermopylae, leaving in their wake 20,000 Greek troops who, being less well endowed with motor vehicles, failed to escape in time and were captured by the Germans." (Martin van Crevald, Hitler’s Strategy 1940-1941: The Balkan Clue, p. 162, Cambridge University Press, 1973)

"About 25 miles south of Lake Ochrid, Koritza is a road junction whence a road leads eastwards to Florina, hinge of the present British-Greek line confronting the Axis armies. Fast columns of Bersaglieri on motor cycles and in armored cars entered Koritza at 12.30 p.m. today and captured "numerous prisoners and arms of every kind including several batteries of cannon," it was claimed. (https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=194...6,2463178&hl=en KORITZA TAKEN ITALIANS CLAIM Recapture of Important Albanian Town Announced at Rome, The Montreal Gazette, April 15, 1941)

(www.romanoguerra.it/corriere_1939_45.php Domeniche del Corriere)

18.04.1941 Dopo aver raggiunto gli obiettivi in Albania della Linea Difensiva Greca (Argirocastro e Permeti) stabilita con il comando germanico, le truppe della 11a Armata Italiana ('Brennero', 'Julia' e 'Modena') iniziarono a spingersi lungo la costa ionica, per continuare a coprire il fianco destro dell'offensiva germanica in grecia.

"Under the umbrella of air supremacy, tens of thousands of troops from the Brennero, Julia and Modena Divisions were able to advance along roads stretching from Argirocastro to Libonovo and Delvine, in concert with the Bari and Taro Divisions now racing to reach Ponte Perati." (www.comandosupremo.com/ponte-perati...a.html#comments Ponte Perati: The ‘Highway of Death’ of the Greek Army in Albania)

22.04.1941 Dopo aver perso il controllo di tutti gli avamposti avanzati, la guarnigione greca di Ponte Perati (50.000 uomini) si arrese alle forze italiane.

"By nightfall, the division, bloodied, but undaunted, could say with pride it had broken the back of a stout enemy. The Bari Division, which had borne a great deal of the Ponte Perati action, was to report the loss of 30 officers and 400 other ranks, killed or wounded." (www.comandosupremo.com/ponte-perati...in-albania.html Ponte Perati: The ‘Highway of Death’ of the Greek Army in Albania)


(Napoli nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale, pag. 110, Istituto di Studi Storici Economici e Sociali, 2006)

("The Commanding Officer of the 139th Infantry Regiment (Bari Division), Lieutenant-Colonel Achille Lauro, was killed and awarded the Medaglia d’Oro al Valor Militare for his outstanding leadership in the face of the fierce enemy fire". www.comandosupremo.com/ponte-perati...in-albania.html Ponte Perati: The ‘Highway of Death’ of the Greek Army in Albania)

20.10.1941 Il 20 ottobre 1941, il 20° Battaglione Bersaglieri della Divisione 'Pasubio' dopo aver ottenuto la resa della stazione ferroviaria di Stalino, si spinsero velocemente verso le posizioni tenute dalla 383° Divisione di Fanteria Sovietica, costringendo il nemico alla fuga.

"The situations for the Soviets became very serious on the northern flank of the 383rd Rifle Division, around the suburban railroad station of Stantsia Stalino, where the Italians were advancing. With the capture of Grishino and Grodovska from the 296th Rifle Division the Pasubio Division had maneuvered to the north of the Celere Division, thus securing the left flank of the Bersaglieri and cavalrymen. General Marazzini decided it was an opportune time to attack the 383rd Rifle Division's unprotected flank, in the viciniity of Yasinovataya. A reinforced battalion from the 291st Rifle Regiment, under 1st Lieutenant Shcherbak, was sent to the threatened area. The Soviet battalion fought bitterly to prevent an Italian breakthrough and delayed them long enought to allow the "Miners" Division to retreat. Nevertheless, the XX Bersaglieri Battalion captured Stalino Station. Threatened by the Italians to the north, and with Germans vanguards already in Stalino, the Russians had no choice but to abandon the city." (Regio Esercito: The Italian Royal Army in Mussolini's Wars, 1935-1943, Patrick Cloutier, p. 67, Lulu Press, 2010


(www.delcampe.net/page/item/id,31214...language,E.html Tribuna Illustrata 31 1942 - Guerra,Fronte RUsso,Bersaglieri - Africa,Nostro Settotenente Medico,Medaglia d'Oro)

29.06.1942 Le Divisioni 'Brescia', 'Trento' e 'Littorio', sostenuto da due battaglione del 7º Reggimento bersaglieri, ebbero un ruolo decisivo nella Battaglia di Marsa Matruh e Fuka in Nord Africa, nella quale vennero catturatio 10.000 soldadi alleati.

("Italian combat sappers cleared gaps in the minefields slowly because of heavy artillery fire, and at dawn supporting infantry moved up. Colonel Ugo Scirocco’s 7th Bersaglieri Regiment finally broke into the British defenses, and at 0930 hours, the 6000 remnants of the Xth British Corps, were captured along with large quantities of supplies. About the same time, the 21st Panzer Division intercepted another British column retreating to the east, capturing another 1,600." www.comandosupremo.com/mersa.html/2 The Battle of Mersa Matruh)


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TUNISIA. Quando gli Italiani Stupirono il Mondo

(http://associazioneitalia.blogspot.com.au/...rara-sulla.html Un libro di Orazio Ferrara)

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Il General Britannico Harold Alexander dichiarò durante la Campagna di Tunisia:


(www.ilportaledelsud.org/ferrara_orazio_03.htm Quando gli italiani stupirono il mondo)


(Decisive Campaigns of the Second World War, John Gooch, p. 95, Routledge, 2012)

Scriverà infine Lord Joseph Strabolgi nel suo libro “The conquest of Italy” (London, Hutchinson 1944):


(www.ilportaledelsud.org/ferrara_orazio_03.htm Quando gli italiani stupirono il mondo)


(https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=194...7,3566947&hl=en Nazis Had No Stomach for Fight At End in Tunisia, Freyberg Says, The Montreal Gazette, 22 June 1943)

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Tricolore: la ringrazio molto per il vostro contributo non sapevo circa l'importanza della stazione ferroviaria di Tebourba.

15.05.1941 Il 15 maggio gli inglesi lanciarono l’operazione Brevity nel tentativo di eliminare il saliente che le forze italo-tedesche erano riuscite a creare durante l’ultima offensiva, nella zona di Sollum, Forte Capuzzo e Passo Halfaya. L’attacco inglese si arenò davanti alla forte resistenza dei 12° Battaglione Bersaglieri della divisione Ariete, che riuscirono a respingere le l'avanguardia blindati del nemico infliggendogli notevoli perdite.

"The northern column found itself held up by the understrength Bersaglieri company at the entrance to Halfay Pass; it needed the entire day to force the stubborn Italians to abandon their positions. As a consequence, the planned British threat to Sollum never materialized." (Field Marshal: The Life and Death of Erwin Rommel, Daniel Allen Butler, p. 251, Casemate, 2015)

"The Italian Bersaglieri did their part by blunting the enemy attack at the Halfaya Pass, putting out of action seven Matildas. This was an Italian first in inflicting serious damage to Britain's much feared, if lumbering, heavy tanks." (Mussolini Warlord: Failed Dreams of Empire, H. James Burgwyn, p. 201, Enigma Books, 2013)




https://digilander.libero.it/lacorsainfinit...onaggi/cova.htm GIACINTO COVA





12.06.1942 La Division 'Trieste' costrinse la 22a Brigata corazzata inglese a ritirarsi dopo averle inflitto notevoli perdite. La 21a Panzer Division piombò addosso alla 22a brigata corazzata inglese, mentre stavano ancora combattendo, infliggendole gravi perdite.
("Bismarck and Nehring struck on June 12 and their timing was perfect. The distinguished British historian Correlli Barnett called the ensuing battle the greatest defeat in the history of the British armor. When the British XIII Corps commander, General Norrie, realized what was happening, he sent the 22nd Armoured Brigade to rescue the trapped 7th Armoured. The 22nd, however, was pinned down by the Italian Trieste Motorized Division and was taken in the rear by Bismarck and the 21st Panzer. It retreated with heavy losses. Bismarck then returned to the Battle of Knightsbridge, where he, Nehring, and Rommel crushed the 7th Armoured." Rommel's Lieutenants: The Men Who Served The Desert Fox, Samuel W. Mitcham, p. 98, Praeger, 2006)

Battle of Knighstbridge http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FNXOkBa-_PY/VMDZ...ightsbridge.jpg

Cannone anticarro "Elefantino"

Maresciallo Capo, 21° Reggimento d'Artiglieria Motorizzata, Divisione Motorizzata "Trieste" www.pinterest.com/MorviusL/wwii-uniformi-italia/

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TUNISIA. Quando gli Italiani Stupirono il Mondo

03.12.1943
(https://web.archive.org/web/20110617054745...GES_143_149.pdf Perimeters in Paragraph, Colonel Conrad H Lanza, p. 146, The Field Artillery Journal, 1943)

Il 3 decembre, il 10º Reggimento Bersaglieri e e 1º Reggimento San Marco catturarono un folto gruppo di paracadutisti inglesi e americani del colonnello Edson Raff e colonnello John Frost, in un’ardita azione di rastrellamento nella zona di Donar Cheti e Pont du Fahs, facendo meritare al Reggimento un encomio del del Comando Supremo tedesco e ottenendo due Croci di Ferro.




(Italian Navy & Air Force Elite Units & Special Forces 1940–45, Piero Crociani, Pier Paolo Battistelli, p. 31, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013)

08.04.1943

Il corrispondente di guerra britannico Harold V. Boyle dichiarò durante la Campagna di Tunisia:


(https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=149...1,3158391&hl=en Importance of Good Infantry Shown in Tunisan Fighting, The Milwaukee Journal, 8 April 1943)

Corrispondente di Guerra britannico Harold V. Boyle

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Peppero e Tricolore: se si dispone di una email privata può farmi sapere? Ho bisogno di inviare alcune informazioni riservate a che fare con il ruolo italiano nella campagna tunisina.