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

Semiatomatic rifle Armaguerra mod. 39

Giuseppe Torcasio a candidate officer was in the Italian heavy artillery battery with 2 x Obice da 149/19 model 37 heavy howitzer's a World War II veteran who saw action in Tobruk and the battles for El Alamein North Africa. (colorized photo) 

Giuseppe Torcasio:Italian forces WWII North Africa

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