Alpini running fastly to take position with a battery of 47/32 guns. DVX

"Fast! Fast!"

Black Shirt portrait. The 2 bars on the sleeve indicate 2 wounds in combat. DVX

Black Shirt

Apart that this AT battery of 47/32s would have almost no chance against T34s and KVs, but what's the use of highly skilled mountain troops on the wide plain of the Russian steppe? Actually these troops should have worked in the Caucaso mountains, but the German command asked to the Italian command to deploy them in Ukraina, with the other Italian troops, to keep all together all the Italian army corps in Russia (part of them has been intended to set in the Caucaso mountainous environment). And as usual... "The Italian High Command likes to wash the flat with the champagne...". DVX