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Sources:
Armistice and Civil War -www.historynet.com/italy-a-nation-divided-1943-1945.htm
Raid on Alexandria - www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/11814603/Emilio-Bianchi-human-torpedo-obituary.html
Commander Borghese - comandosupremo.com/junio-valerio-borghese/
The Manned Torpedoes - www.formulapassion.it/worldnews/cult/slc-il-maiale-odiato-da-winston-churchill-286723.html
El Alamein:
The Foxes of the Desert, Paul Carell, p. 279, Bantam Books, 1962
El Alamein: Desert Victory, John Strawson, p. 119, J M Dent & Sons Limited, 1981
Pendulum Of War: Three Battles at El Alamein, Niall Barr, p. 360, Random House, 2010
Iron Hulls, Iron Hearts: Mussolini's Elite Armoured Divisions in North Africa, Ian Walker, Crowood, 2012
trvision.net/detail/video-jfTXsO-Uviw.html
The Folgore:
www.ansa.it/english/news/politics/2014/10/31/el-alamein-lost-with-great-honour_a6aedfe0-da47-45c6-b8c9-07bd0d1c6203.html
books.google.co.uk/books?id=kTppDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT82&dq=folgore+el+alamein&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiUu9yn0cnjAhV8UBUIHfnnBA0Q6AEIPjAE#v=onepage&q=folgore%20el%20alamein&f=false
The CSIR - www.unirr.it/storia/c-s-i-r#faqnoanchor
Battle of Petrikowka - books.google.co.uk/books?id=_0jJBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=battaglia+di+petrikovka&source=bl&ots=UlObUDF4uy&sig=ACfU3U1BbXYj7qUg5BfOydfZG4SB1z8q_Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjv2OeLqrjkAhVaQxUIHVViDVEQ6AEwEHoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=battaglia%20di%20petrikovka&f=false
books.google.co.uk/books?id=snGwAAAAIAAJ&dq=Le+operazioni+delle+unit%C3%A0+italiane+al+fronte+russo&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=291
The Charge of the Savoia:
www.luciolami.com/libro_1970_isbuscenskij_l_ultima_carica.htm
antoniobassetti.altervista.org/carica-di-isbuscenskij/
The Charge at Keru :
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/7866571/Amedeo-Guillet.html
www.ft.com/content/5586116c-8b8a-11df-ab4d-00144feab49a
Battle of Keren - comandosupremo.com/battle-of-keren/
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this content create a lot of hate, would not be a surprise when armchair historian are getting demonetized or blocked, people can't handle this!!
*Yes, I would VERY MUCH like to hear more about additional Italian WWII victories and accomplishments; before, during and after their Axis relationship. Thank You!*
Can you do the French ? I think they are the most ridiculed nation of WW2 . ( with maybe the Italians )
this should have been a ten-second video of a black background
Do something about the Romanians please!
In fact Italy was the most important ally to Germany.
germany:help me italy! italy:🖕🏻
Uuh the story of Amadeo Guillet Is Great trust me
Help I mocked the italians and now there are angry men on horses trying to break into my house
ngl, this video was 13:33 minutes longer than i expected
Then it means your history knowledge was really low
The attack on Alexandria port led by Luigi Durand de la Penne is worth a full episode IMHO, amazing story.
Bad Leaders, Not many weapons, *_does a cavalry charge and wins._*
Romania
Imagine taking one wrong step in the Russian army
Cazzo duro e pedalare. Fighting a war we didn't want as a people to fight for, without supplies and led by jerkasses... Bravery at least, foolishness as a minimum.. It would have been nice to reverse roles vs Western Allies and see if they would fight or surrender.... I still find unbelievable the fact that we didn't disbanded before...
"Mein Führer, Italy has joined the war." "Send 2 divisions." "No, they joined our side." "... send 10 divisions to assist them."
Also Hitler: "let's fault everyone else for my failings"
It's heart warming to see all of theese good comments about italian people and italy, sadly, for the most part i dont think we deserve them
The video could end at 0:01 Jk, I'm Italian
That title reads like drinking sand. "The Times Italy was Effective/Good During WWII".
History is not made of myths
italians were good but all their equipment and leadership sucked ass
If we had true commanders and a true industry we would have kicked many asses
Italian soldiers were brave and exceptional, if anyone believes otherwise its because they've been brainwashed by allied propaganda
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Italian contribution....Russians are coming Giants are going to rape us
Italian victories have been hushed up but so have their crimes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_war_crimes
I know about US and French atrocities in Vietnam and I think the Brits in India? My point was that Italy was a defeated nation like Germany but unlike Germany, Italy's crimes were covered up.
Yeah like if USA,Uk,France and the others haven't done such things
The Matilda tank was effectively retired by El Alamein with only 1 Brigade of mine flails. At El Alamein the British had mixed Brigades of Shermans, Grants and Crusaders plus 1 Brigade (23rd Armoured) of Valentines.
I'm italian
Italian army was without money like now because our economy is a transformation economy without raw materials. And now industies are transferring production in East Europe where wages are lower. For example the newest rifle Carcano model 1938 7.35 mm caliber that killed president Kennedy was never in italian army because there were no money to buy. They were sold to finnish army. So italian rifle was the old model 1891 6,50 mm caliber, the same of WW1. 50% of fighters were Fiat CR 42 biplane, without canopy, max speed 430 Km/h with only two 12,7 mm machine with low rhythm. A WW1 army in the WW2. Anti ytank gun was 47 mm austrian Bholer inabel to penetrate over 40 mm and Matilda II had a forward armor of 80 mm.
Creativity and stubborness: this has always been the secret to italians making other people think "how the hell did they think of that"
You didn't mention "Operation Pedstal", during the Siege of Malta. Italian Navy and Italian Air Force, from 11th to 13th August 1942, inflicted several losses to Royal Navy and annihileted the supplies convoys to Malta. In that battle Royal Navy losses were heavy: 1 aircraft carrier sunk 2 light cruisers sunk 1 destroyer sunk 9 merchant ships sunk 1 aircraft carrier damaged 2 light cruisers damaged 3 merchant ships damaged 34 aircraft destroyed The italians had: 2 submarines sunk 1 heavy cruiser damaged 1 light cruiser damaged 1 submarine damaged 60 aircraft destroyed
The moments that the Italian Military reminded the world that Rome had once led an Empire greater than many throughout history.
Soviet Union: "FOR THE GLORY OF MOTHER RUSSIA! URAAAAAAAAA-" Italian Corpo Spedizione: "No." Soviet Union: "SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-"
h-h-h-how h-how how HOW??????????
Italians one paratrooper Division in North Africa fought 2 English infantry 1 English tank 1 Free French infantry and 1 Free French tank division. When ran out if ammo destroyed weapons. Then marched into POW camps without raising hands or showing a white flag
Dis u know that the man in the title photo of the video was a fascist that tryed a Golpe in 70'?
the chicken army
stfu sucker
MANCO' LA FORTVNA NON IL VALORE
@Lorenzo lo so che è l'iscrizione sul mausoleo a QUOTA 33, ma è giusto ricordarlo.
@maurizio boggian è un modo di dire...
no, mancò la benzina, l'acqua, i viveri, le munizioni, il supporto aereo, carri armati degni di questo nome, le armi controcarro, e soprattutto un sistema logistico serio e dei bravi comandanti!
Error: the mines utilized by the "uomini Gamma" (Gamma-men) weren't attached magnetically to the hull of the target ship, instead, two Metallic cables would be tied to the ship's anti-roll fins (basically rudders monunted on the side of ships to reduce rolling motion in rough sea conditions), then the mine would be hoisted utilizing whinches so that it sat about 1,5 meters below the hull. This massively increased the effectiveness of the explosive charge (only 200kg). Another interesting fact is that the actions of the Uomini Gamma account for 53% of the complessive tonnage sunk in the mediterrean by the Regia marina italiana. One of these ballsy men, Spartaco Schergat, was a relative of mine. Thx for making this video highlighting the bravery of some of italy's greatest WWII heroes. It means a lot to me.
So what were the Weapon of the Italians *BREDDA PG* *GERMAN WEOPONS*
Griffin: I know it's late but how about a vid on the Republic of China in WW2?
This video: *exists* Americans: LoL mE nO cArE, ItAlY bAd HaHaHaHaHa SpAgHeTi ArMy
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This video is under 14 minutes long. That should tell you all you need to know about the times the Italians were effective..
This is the usual format of the Armchair Historian. They would dedicate 10-15 minutes even to Napoleon’s victories.
That comment alone shows how little you know about history
Let's not forget that the Allies had an important advantage by being able to decode Axis radio transmissions.
AND NOT YOUR FALSELY CLAMING ITALY TOOK OVER THE SOVIET UNION
Oh so you call the Soviet Union (a country like 47x Stronger then Italy) Ineffective in WW2. But you call Italy important in WW2 even tho they just sat there and started losing to Greece of all places.
The snow speaks Finnish... The tree's speak vietnamese... But the waves... the waves speak Italian
Thank you so very much for this video concerning the unnecessarily traduced Italian forces of the Second World War. The reasons for the Italian shortcomings were many, but, none of those reasons have anything whatsoever to do with the average Italian soldier. It is truly pathetic that people who have no real direct, or even verifiable indirect knowledge of Italy's performance in The Second World War proclaim Italy to have been 'useless' and even 'cowardly' during the war; as nothing could be further from reality. Italy had been fighting bravely in conflict after conflict post 'Great War'. As such, Italy was not only exhausted, it's resources, both imported and internal were depleted. Her internal manufacturing capability was good, but not good enough to support Italy's detailed military armaments plan for the next global war. Further, Italy's hand was forced into a war encompassing the vast majority of the earth via their German Axis partners, in fact six years too early. As Mussolini's government had explained to Hitler and his Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop via Count Ciano, in a detailed memorandum of the military and national civilian requirements (as well as other Italian national supply deficiencies). Yet Hitler seemed to believe that these deficiencies were unimportant and continued in his bellicose ways, which lead to the destruction of both Nazi-Germany and Fascist-Italy. In any case, The truly great and typically brave Italian Colonel Amadeo Guillet, AKA 'The Devil Commander' attempted to defeat death itself, refusing to die until he was 101! The great man passed away and was admitted to 'Walhalla' on 16 June, 2010 at the age of 101. Thank you again for this telling, yet all too short list of Italian bravery in WWII. *"The German soldier has impressed the world but, the Italian Bersaglieri has impressed the German soldier!"*
“An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.” - Alexander the Great
A nice reinstatement of a much ridiculed army, i applaud this endevour to set the record straight... Taking the politics aside you cant denie you had courage on all sides
From UK Yorkshire do not mock Italians. They, hopefully, will leave the EU and join in with trade with the UK and the Commonwealth.
that would be great but our government is so philoeuropean...
I thought you made videos about historical fact
Rommel basically thanked the Italians for being his "meat shield" while he retreated...
the Italian soldiers were excellent and courageous and there are no doubts about this while the officers were bad, ok, but the others were certainly no better ... the German officers completely mistaken the plans to attack Russia: one of the most obvious mistakes in history ..the British officers showed their full inability and amateurism in dunkirk .. the French officers were the worst: they thought that the ww1 tactics were valid also in 1939 .. so the Italian officers were no worse than the others
The soldiers were extremely efficient, it was their command which underperformed
8:00 unlucky for them,they did not attack The Grand Old Lady,which would be a very fatal mistake
the Philippines please
Mussolini and even Hitler didn’t listen to their own generals ,why have them?
bravo, grazie
Nothing
Italy never controlled their colonies entirely...only their cities but not the countryside.
@Rob al Only in Ethiopia was in 1941 after the British and the Allies started invading the Italian East Africa a rebellion was restarted. In Eritrea, Somalia and Libya there were none
@TheCommentaryKing are you saying that there wasn't any insurgences even though? Especially in Ethiopia were Ras Aregai fouth until the return of the Emperor...
@Rob al Ignorance again, even after I proved you wrong, it looks like you can't handle the truth. In Libya all forms of resistance came to an end in 1931/32 after the death of al-Mukhtar In Eritrea the rebel groups were few and swiftly defeated. In Somalia the south was pacified in 1926. While in Ethiopia 90% of the country was pacified in 1940.
@TheCommentaryKing In most of these countries, many resisted in the countryside and in the south of the countries because they had patriots still praised today. Italy even couldnt submit Greece and Albania...
@Rob al Idiotic question that can be answered by a simple search on the Internet. But I will answer nonetheless. Libya after different military operations was put under total Italian control in 1931, after all cities and territories in the desert were captured and the rebel leader Omar al-Mukhtar was exexuted. Eritrea was undel full Italian control since 1900 if not the 1890s. Central and northern Somalia were fully under Italian control since 1908, southern Somalia was completely pacified in 1926. Ethiopia was another thing, but by 1940 90% of the country was pacified
Fun fact: That one Italian song you most likely've heard, but can't remember the name of, is called "Funiculi Funicula".
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ok then cry
Um why?
Really nice vid! Can you make a vid about the Four days of Naples?
Borghese is notorious not only for the assault on Alexandria port, but for one of the weirdest post-war episode, a last-time-withdraw coup (Golpe Borghese) in 1970, one of the mistery of the Years of Lead..
Why is this video this long!
Can you teach us world history that doesn’t involve war?
no
Times Italy was effective in war. Roman Empire 2000 years ago and never since.
@Lorenzo his joke is asinine
Not funny, didn't laugh
I was fully prepared for thsi video to be a 1 second video of him just laughing
Good joke
Everyone: omg the events of the second world war were so tragic Me HE SAID URANUS TEEHEE. (6:18)
Excellent video!
Talk about Austro-Hungary in WW1
*Out here, the horse nomads run wild and free, and they would like to ransack your city.*