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

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

Portrait of an Italian young soldier, Northern Africa. DVX

Portrait

Italian tanks on the Balbia motorway. DVX

Carri M

Italian soldier having a meal on the engine of a Lancia Ro heavy truck. DVX

Meal on the truck

Benito Mussolini

Ethiopian soldiers of the Italian Army Polizia dell Africa Italiana division pictured after taking part in the invasion of british somaliland. 1940. one of the few successful actions by the italian army in africa during WW2...

Black Soldiers

Italian soldier armed with a Beretta Submachine Gun. Egypt 1942.

Beretta Submachine Gun

one of the 90 Semovente 105/25s .It was one of the most powerful self-propelled gun built by Italy during World War II.

Semovente  self-propelled gun 

Italian socialist republic soldier and a german ss 

Allies

Italian blackshirt division panzer IV tank, italy 1944

Italian Panzer tank

The commander of the Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia (Corpo di Spedizione Italiani in Russia - CSIR) General Giovanni Messe (1883-1968), awards a second lieutenant with a decoration, who had distinguished himself on the Eastern Front.

For gallantry

The commander of the Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia (Corpo di Spedizione Italiani in Russia - CSIR), General Giovanni Messe (1883-1968) pays a visit to his soldiers on the Eastern Front. - Considered by many to have been the best Italian general of the Second World War.

Visit the troops

The Fiat CR.42 was the primary night fighter of the Regia Aeronautica, although it was not equipped with radar (and often lacked a radio)



taken from fb/Thomas Laemlein

 Fiat CR.42 nightfighter

Four young soldiers of the infamous "Brigate Nere" militia, armed with Beretta m1938, Italie 1944.

@Carn

Black Brigades

NCO of marines battalion S. Marco, circa 1940. DVX

Portrait of S. Marco battalion NCO

Bersaglieri of RSI "Italia" Division with an MG42. DVX

RSI Bersaglieri

American and British troops look over a Italian Semovente da 90/53 self-propelled 90mm AT gun on Sicily. The Italian 90mm gun was on par with the German 88mm and could easily knock out any Allied tank circa 1943. But this vehicle is nothing more than a mobile anti-tank gun, with no armor defense to speak of. I have seen some reports that the Semovente da 90/53 was sent to North Africa but I have never seen any real documentation/confirmation that this is true. Several of the vehicles were used on Sicily and then in contesting the Allied landings at Salerno.
taken from fb/Thomas Laemlein

Semovente da 90/53 

Marines of S. Marco battalion in a moment of rest. Antelat, January 1942. DVX

Moment of rest for the marines

Marines of S. Marco Battalion observing a disabled Cruiser. Antelat, January 1942. DVX

S. Marco Battalion

S.mag. Agostino Settimo 16 cp. VI btg

Agostino Settimo, born in 1920, was an Italian parachutist who Fought in the battle of El-Alamein, and was took prisoner. He died last year.

(Pic colorized by T.Sorba)

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