Italian Marines with 8-mm Breda M37 machine gun after landing in Sitia on the island of Crete.

Italian Marines 

Nisei (Nippo-American) soldier and Italian soldier of the 'salmerie' of CIL (Corpo Italiano di Liberazione = Italian Liberation Corps, the southern regular army fighting against Germans) caressing a mule. Summer 1944. DVX

Best friend of mountain troops

The completely devastated Grottaglie Airport, Puglia, Southern Italy, after the Italy’s armistice, Autumn 1943: a burned Regia Aeronautica’s Fiat CR.42 and one of three large airship hangars - Grottaglie Airport was an old Airship Station of the Italian Navy late WW1 (and also today is a Naval Air Station, base of the Italian Navy’s AV-8B and tomorrow F-35) - hi too completely burned. Victor Sierra