Italian Forces

Roman pace

IMC Archives

Flags and pennants of the courses flying in the wind, officers and cadets of Italian Air Force’s Academy, at this time on Caserta’s Royal Palace, marching on parade Roman pace-stepping. The Roman pace was the parade’s pace of the Italian Armed Forces during the Fascist era. Officers and cadets wearing the Summer time dress: all white or blue jacket and white trouser, cap always white. The Summer time white dress was also used by Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force post-1946) until the Fifties. (For my grandfather, an old Infantry officer of WW1, the Roman pace was the “pace of the kick in the ass”!). Victor Sierra