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If you build a sand castle with the kids, you are a great dad. If you explain to them the advantages of the Italian trace, you are just weird... #MilitaryArchitecture #MilHis

#OTD in 1944, 59 Italian prisoners were killed by Nazi troops in retaliation for a partisan attack days earlier. S. Engel, the Nazi commander, never paid for the Turchino Massacre, as all extradition attempts were blocked. #WarInItaly #Partigiani

International Workers' Day! Italians celebrating the "Festa dei Lavoratori" in 1946. Notice the sign on the left that says, "Give jobs to our veterans." Between 1945 and 1947, more than a million Italian POWs returned to a country already facing 2 million unemployed.

Bunker created to defend Fuerteventura against a possible Allied invasion (Operation Pilgrim - Puma, 1941), now repurposed as viewpoint

Buon Natale - Merry Christmas. 1911-12 Postcard depicting Bersaglieri in Libia during the Italo-Turkish War

The entrance to the Archivio di Stato may not look as cool as the National Archives but the surroundings and the interior are breathtaking...no swans though 🦢 #RegioEsercito

#MuleMonday Refugees escaping the Fascist advance towards Málaga. 6-7 Feb 1937. A naval bombardment killed 3-5k civilians. From the book "The crime on the road Málaga-Almeria" by Dr Norman Bethune, who went to Spain to create a blood transfusion unit to aid the Republican soldiers. #SCW

#MuleMonday I was lucky enough to see some mules at work in the rugged hills of southern Spain over the weekend.

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Soldiers of the International Brigades and their horses during the Spanish Civil War. 📷 by Elkan Vera. #WarHorseWednesday IWM: HU 71523

The death of Franco was announced #OTD in 1975. I cannot help but think of those #ContinuingtheFight against fascism & the Spanish Ex-Servicemen’s Association who only a month prior held a silent march down #Whitehall & layed a wreath at the #Cenotaph. I stood at that spot today.

Today in 1944, a British soldier serving with the Eighth Army carrier pigeon service in Italy removes a message from a pigeon at a mobile loft. An original wartime colour image by Captain Alfred Tanner. Photo: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Help me expand this list by commenting so we can find our people! #AnimalStudies #AnimalHistory @drmabibby.bsky.social @wildpasts.bsky.social go.bsky.app/nizxRK

3 November 1919 | An Italian Jewish woman, Frida Misul, was born in Livorno. A Singer. In Auschwitz from 16 May 1944. No. A-5483 She was liberated in Theresienstadt. She passed away in 1992.

🚨Reminder🚨 The Western Front Association’s PhD Grant Scheme is open for 2024! Grants of up to £2,000 for those researching The Great War as part of their PhD. As long as the thesis has a significant First World War element we are interested. NOTHING IS OFF LIMITS! #fwwhist

#OTD in 1944, partisan and medical student Giovanni Palmieri was executed by SS troops. After 3 days of combats, instead of retreating, he stayed behind to look after the wounded partisans. He was captured and kept alive so he could treat the wounded SS, and then they killed him. #WarInItaly

Today, an unexpected gift from a tutee reminded me how small gestures can have the deepest impact. Grateful for the opportunity to make a difference #VeterinaryEducation #VetEd #ManyTanks

I seldomly wear cufflinks but when I do...#Spitfire

So it begins: #InVeST24!! International Veterinary Simulation in Teaching Congress

Yesterday, I received a book I ordered online. It turns out it belonged to one of my favorite authors, Richard Lamb. I've bought his book War in Italy three times—once for myself and twice for friends. It might be silly, but I feel like I won some sort of (nerdy) lottery. #MilHis

#OTD in 1944 the Italian partisan Silvio Corbari was executed by nazi-fascist troops. Corbari was famous for his twisted sense of humour: in one occasion he distracted the attention of the local garrison using a bomb made of pasta and beans and he used to dress up as an ... 🧵1/2

It is not every day that I get to see homing pigeons. The baskets are still very similar to those used by loftmen during #WW1 and #WW2. During #WW2 alone the British Army used more than 250k pigeons and 32 received the Dikin Medal (aka the Victoria Cross for Animals).

28.07.41 Mussolini inspects the troops of the 1st Legion of the Camice Nere in Mantova before their departure to the Russian Front. Very few will see Italy again. #WW2

#OTD in 1927, the Italian antifascists and political prisoners Carlo Rosselli, Emilio Lussu and Francesco Fausto Nitti escaped the island of Lipari (N of Sicily). All 3 joined the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War: "Today in Spain, tomorrow in Italy"- Rosselli.

#OTD in 1944, the Germans gathered hundreds of civilians in the Duomo di San Miniato. A few hours later, an American 105mm shell hit the church, killing 55 and wounding hundreds. The Germans were held responsible for the massacre until 2004. It is still a bitter episode. #WW2

#OTD in 1944, Italian priest Giuseppe Beotti was killed by German forces. Beotti was killed for sheltering Jews and aiding partisans during #WW2. His courage and sacrifice in the face of tyranny remain a powerful testament to the strength of human compassion and resistance.

The fact that people in the UK not only condone but also advocate for the implementation of nazi policies (a.k.a. crimes against humanity) is kind of scary to say the least. Context; NextDoor. Prisoners release policies.

HMS Prince of Wales (Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier) Yesterday in Portsmouth. #RoyalNavy

80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Caen #WW2 #DDAY

Today, we visited Bayeux. I couldn't leave without visiting the graves of two Italian soldiers resting far from home; Cosimo Trimarchi and Mario Umberto Pandolfi. Riposate in pace, soldati. #RegioEsercito #WW2 #WarGraves

La Cambre German War Cemetery today. #ww2

A wild Jeep Willys appeared! I would prefer not to be run over, but if it has to happen, it better be a Jeep #Normandy #Jeep #Sainte-Mere-Eglise

#OTD Teresa Adele Binda, partisan, was killed by the Nazi-Fascist troops. Teresa followed her son who joined a partisan bad. Later, she was captured, tortured for days and finally shot. She never betrayed her fellow partisans. Her son, Gianni, survived the war.

#OTD in 1943, two men of the Arditi Distruttori ("Daring Destroyers") of the Regia Aeronautica (Royal Air Force), Franco Cargnel and Vito Procida, parachuted over the Libyan desert, infiltrated a British airbase near Benghazi, and destroyed 20 aircraft.

#OTD in '47 Major Carlo Maurizio Ruspoli di Poggio Suasa passed away. He was a fighter pilot who achieved 10 victories (Soviet and Brits) at the age of 35! He was awarded 3 Silver Medal of Military Valour. He also helped to negotiate the Armistice of Cassibile as an interpreter #RegiaAeronautica

#DDay commemoration; I wonder why is necessary to use AI generated images when there are thousands of original photos (with and w/o ©)

Corporal of the Royal Corp of Libyan Troops wearing a turban, "colonial" shirt and sirual (traditional trousers). #RegioEsercito A.Viotti (1988) - Uniformi e Distintivi della 2a GM

-Hey, Mike! I think you overdid it with that ghillie, mate. - Sarge said "urban camo", I am an ornamental shrub.

"Venice 1940: War in a gondola" - Magazine 7 anni di guerra N.6 #WW2 #WarInItaly

#25Aprile Liberation Day (Italy) - This year I would like pay homage to the thousands of Italian Army servicemen who fought to liberate Italy and that often overshadowed by the Allies and partisans: Some of them started fighting in '38 and continued until '45 🇮🇹 #Cobelligerent

Spanish Cavalry during the "Victory Day" parade in 1960. #WarHorseWednesday

#MuleMonday: No, it is not camouflage! Greek police using mules to transport marihuana plants after raiding an illegal plantation in 2012. Pic: protothema-gr

#BA personnel checking the plane for bird strike damage...fun fun fun #aviation

The not so sunny #Gibraltar right now. I percive a massive lack of X MAS around here (if you know, you know).

Rare images of doctors of the Italian Army vaccinating and treating Ethiopians infected with smallpox in the Galla-Sidamo area. c.1939. 📚 "Collaudo di Razza"- O.Giovenco. #RegioEsercito #MedHistory #Colonialism

Interesting letter from A. Weddell, US ambassador, to the US president. May '40: The 2nd Francoist Government are amateurs (underlined 😅) and more interestingly; Petain is still seen as a "wonderful martial figure". I would love to know his opinion about him 2 months later.

Italian artillerymen wishing a Happy Easter! Happy Easter to the Austrians, "Buona Pasqua". 23.04.1916. #FWW #WW1 #RegioEsercito