Italian mortarmen are engaged in servicing an 81 mm mortar (Mortaio da 81 Mod. 35) in their positions on the Eastern Front; 1942.

Keeping mortar operational

Units of the Italian Army on the march on the Eastern Front; 1942.

Italian infantry on the move

Italian machine gunner in Spain. About 1938. DVX

Machine gunner

WHAT IS THE BLUE THING WRAPPED AROUND THE COLONIAL SOLDIER IN THIS IMAGE?  

NAME: ?
DESTINATION: MOD. ?

THE ITALIANS USED THEM EVEN IN WORLD WAR 2.

PLEASE HELP!

BLUE THING - WHAT IS IT?

Black shirt of GNR btl "Bir el Gobi" in a studio picture, about 1945.

Black shirt of "Bir el Gobi" Btl

Alpini of RSI Monterosa division in a studio portrait. Circa late 1944. DVX

Alpini of Monterosa division

The Italian tankette, the original version called the CV.29, designed in 1929, which was based on the Carden-Loyd Mk VI tankette, four of which were purchased from Britain; the CV.29 was in all respects similar to the British original, and 25 were built.  They evolved and were gradually improved into the CV.33, the most numerous with 1,200 being built.  The final variant was the CV.38.  They were used primarily by the Royal Italian Army, but were exported to other Axis Powers like Hungry.  The Germans no doubt also used it...

The Italian CV-33/CV-38 Tankette Series

Italian medium, 13-ton, 1940 production tank in the Libyan desert; North Africa, 1942. 

M-13/40 tank

Italian infantrymen during the battle of Guadalajara, march 1937. DVX

Guadalajara

Sailors putting the flag on the prow of an Italian submarine in Betasom base, Bordeaux. DVX

Flag on the prow

Italian submarine in Atlantic service, Betasom base, Bordeaux. DVX

Betasom 

Italian infantrymen boarding a Savoia Marchetti SM.82 Marsupiale transport aircraft of the 216th Squadron. - No date, location or destination available...

Italian Paratroopers on a mission

Lt. Tito Falconi (later Colonel) during the national air races in Los Angeles, 1933. He was at the time the upside down flight world recordman and an acrobatic champion. Jean Harlow was a star interested in aviation. DVX

Tito Falconi and Jean Harlow

Italian soldiers, armed with 6.5-mm Moschetto rifles, sittting on a truck during a parade in the city of Belgrade, Jugoslavia.

Military parade

Fully equipped Italian infantry is moving through an unspecified city; 1941.

Heading to the Front

Servicing  the Italian bomber SM.79 Sparviero.Bombs waiting to be loaded.No pace or date mentioned.
Taken from fb/Balkan War history

SM.79

Two US soldiers inspect the Beretta Model 38 submachine gun of an Italian soldier, Mignano Monte Lungo, December 1943. #WW2

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 @WWIIpix/taken from fb

Comparing hardware

British prisoners of war on an Italian truck in northern Africa.


Captured by Italians

Lecce Airport

Italian artillerymen prepare to fire a 105-mm gun Cannone da 105/28 in North Africa.


Italian artillery

Italian soldiers, armed with 6.5-mm carbines, on board open trucks, during a parade in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. 

Ready for the parade

The crew of an Italian 47/32 M35 antitank gun waits for the next Soviet attack near the Don river; winter of 1942.

Waiting for the attack

Italian soldiers communicate with a man and children on a street of an occupied Soviet village. 
Motorcycle on the photo - NSU 501 OSL.

Occupiers chat with a local

Black Shirts of the M battalion "IX Settembre" in a colorized picture originally b/w edited in Signal magazine. 
This unit for some months in late 1944 served in eastern Prussia alongside the Brandeburg division. The German divisional command requested this unit knowing his reliability from the times of a common garrison duty in southern France in 1943. Anyway the Italian legionaries preferred to defend their country rather than fight so far, and the unit was soon transeferred back to Italy. DVX

Black Shirts

Italian sentinel armed with a not common semiatomatic rifle Armaguerra mod. 39 in caliber 7,35 mm. DVX

Italian Forces

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