Mussolini inspecting the 112th Black Shirts Legion. Behind him, the most decorated soldier of Italy, Ettore Muti.
February 1940 (Italy was not yet at war).
Note the rare helmets mod.39. It probably would had become the standard helmet in 1943 (when the Italian Army would be fit for a great war), if the war had not burst before. 

112th Milizia Legion

Naples harbor, may 1938 (note the landscape with the Vesuvio). The twin sail school-ships Colombo and Vespucci.
A squadron of seaplanes flying over them (proabably Cant Z 506s).
The Amerigo Vespucci is still in service  for Italian Navy and with its 80 years of age is in the meantime the oldest ship still in active service, and with the longest service too, in a military Navy.

Cristoforo Colombo and Amerigo Vespucci

Hit on the right flank and burnt. El Guettar, 1943.