against the Russian Empire. 1,408 Finns volunteered to serve in the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, against the USSR. Foreign Legion - A wing of the French...
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Motorised Corps (comprising the 5th and 11th Panzer Divisions), XXXXI Motorised Corps (comprising the SS Motorised Infantry Division Reich and the Großdeutschland...
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The Auxiliary Corps of the Black Shirts' Action Squads (Italian: Corpo Ausiliario delle Squadre d'azione di Camicie Nere), most widely known as the Black...
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Operation Sea Lion (section Panzers ashore)
deep-wading tank (also referred to as the U-Panzer or Unterwasser Panzer) was a standard Panzer III or Panzer IV medium tank with its hull made completely...
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the US 823rd Tank Destroyer Battalion in stopping an attack by the 2nd SS Panzer Division between Sourdeval and Mortain but instead fired its rockets at...
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(Guardia Nazionale Repubblicana or GNR) and the Republican Police Corps (Corpo di Polizia Repubblicana) and the emergence of the Black Brigades (brigate...
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Navy). The Italian forces included about 250,000 soldiers of the Regio Corpo Truppe Coloniali (Royal Corps of Colonial Troops), led by Italian officers...
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July 2017. Ianniello, Claudio. "L'eroica storia del tenente ausiliario del Corpo degli Agenti di Ps Maurizio Giglio". Polizia e Democrazia (in Italian)....
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number of weapons and supplies practically free. In addition to weapons, the Corpo Truppe Volontarie ("Corps of Volunteer Troops") had also been dispatched...
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$212 million for supplies of matériel during the Spanish Civil War, and Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie combat troops had actually fought in Spain on the side...
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perpetrator of that massacre in 2014. SS-Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann—commander of the 1st Battalion, 4th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment—ordered the massacre...
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Ugo Cavallero (category Italian military personnel of World War I)
(Czechoslovakia (31 January 1938) Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross as Generale di Corpo d'Armata and Chief of the Defence Staff of the Italian Royal Army (19 February 1942)...
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according to their service branch (white for infantry, pink for panzer and so on). Gestapo and SS men were issued with black Schirmmützen featuring a silver...
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Stoyan Stoyanov Allied leaders of World War II Axis leaders of World War II I.C.B Dear; M.R.D. Foot (2005). Oxford Companion to the Second World War (paperback ed...
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their B-25 bombers had been destroyed by hot ash. Institution of the CIL (Corpo Italiano di Liberazione, Italian Liberation Corps), that gathers the units...
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Military history of Italy (section World War I)
20 July to achieve this. Both did indeed pledge support, sending in the Corpo Truppe Volontarie from Italy and the Legión Cóndor from Nazi Germany, as...
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(Italian Royal Air Force) withdraws all bombers and biplane fighters from the Corpo Aereo Italiano (Italian Air Corps)—its expeditionary force based in Belgium...
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