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El Alamein
24.10.1942 L''Ariete', Brescia' & 'Folgore' Divisioni difendere con successo il Fronte Alamein.
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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).
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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)
Video02.11.1942 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.
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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)
Edited by johnpasino - 11/3/2016, 11:38
