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5 unusual facts about Italian army


Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic

Since 1999 and as of June 2006, Argentina is the only Latin American country to maintain troops in Kosovo during SFOR (and later EUFOR) operations where combat engineers of the Argentine Armed Forces are embedded in an Italian brigade.

Four days of Naples

From 8 September 1943, the day in which the Cassibile armistice came into force, the Italian Army forces in the area (without orders, as were most of the units at the time) drifted toward Naples.

Franco Lo Giudice

His studies were interrupted in 1914 when he was drafted into the Italian Army following the outbreak of World War I.

Opera Nazionale Balilla

The organization surpassed its purpose as a cultural institution that was intended to serve as the ideological counterpart of school, and served as a paramilitary group (training for future assignments in the Italian Army), as well as education in the career of choice, technology (including postschool courses for legal adults), or education related to home and family (solely for the girls).

Operation Sicilian Vespers

Operation Sicilian Vespers (1992-1998), the largest Italian Army homeland security operation since the end of the Second World War


103rd Motorised Division Piacenza

The 103rd Motorised Division Piacenza was a Motorised Infantry Division of the Italian Army during World War II.

11th Alpini Regiment

With the reintroduction of the regimental level in the Italian Army in 1991/1992 the regiment was reformed on 8 August 1992 in Bruneck as part of the Alpine Brigade Tridentina.

36th Mountain Infantry Division Forlì

The 36th Mountain Infantry Division Forlì was a Mountain Infantry Division of the Italian Army during World War II.

37th Mountain Infantry Division Modena

The 37th Mountain Infantry Division Modena was an Infantry Division of the Italian Army during World War II.

3rd Mountain Infantry Division Ravenna

The 3rd Mountain Infantry Division (Ravenna) was a mountain infantry division of the Italian Army during World War II.

4th Mountain Infantry Division Livorno

The 4th Mountain Infantry Division Livorno was an Infantry Division of the Italian Army during World War II.

Canzoni, Preghiere, Danze del II Millennio – Sezione Europa

The first track, "Il Testamento del Capitano", is a live performance of a traditional song-chorus by the Alpini, an elite mountain warfare unit of the Italian Army, that was booed by the spectators.

Festa della Repubblica

The ceremony continues in the afternoon with the opening of the gardens of the Quirinale Palace, seat of the President of the Republic and with musical performances by the band ensembles of the Italian Army, Italian Navy, Italian Air Force, the "Arma dei Carabinieri", State Police, the "Guardia di Finanza", the Penitentiary Police Corps and the State Forestry Corps.

Francesco Siacci

Francesco Siacci (20 April 1839 – 31 May 1907), an Italian mathematician, ballistician, and officer in the Italian army, was born in Rome, Italy.

Indian Army during World War II

The Indian Army fought in Ethiopia against the Italian Army, in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia against both the Italian and German Army, and, after the Italian surrender, against the German Army in Italy.

Operation White

The Skua managed to crash-land near Syracuse, Sicily, just before its fuel tanks became empty, and after being fired upon by an anti-aircraft artillery unit of the Italian army.


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1896 in Italy

March 1 – Giuseppe Galliano, Lieutenant Colonel of the Royal Italian army who died in the Battle of Adwa (born 1846)

1943 in organized crime

The US Military grants Michele Navarra, the Mafia boss of Corleone, permission to collect abandoned military vehicles left by the Italian army during the allied invasion of Sicily.

2nd Alpini Regiment

After the disbandment of the regimental level in the Italian Army, the "Saluzzo" battalion came under direct control of the "Taurinense" brigade.

ACTL

The Iveco ACTL, a military transport vehicle produced by Iveco for the Italian Army

Antonio Sant'Elia

A nationalist as well as an irredentist, Sant'Elia joined the Italian army as Italy entered World War I in 1915.

Fogliano Redipuglia

As points of interest, famed WWII German officer Erwin Rommel fought in this battle as a junior officer, and American author Ernest Hemingway drove an ambulance for the Italian Army (see A Farewell to Arms).

Giovanni Messe

The CSIR was a mobile infantry and cavalry unit of the Italian army that took part in Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union.

Guido Morselli

After his graduation in 1935, he served in the Italian Army, attending the officer course for the Alpini corps.

Italian Eritreans

In 1939 nearly 40% of the male Eritreans able to fight were enrolled in the colonial Italian Army: the best Italian colonial troops during World War II were the Eritrean Ascari, as stated by Italian Marshall Rodolfo Graziani and legendary officer Amedeo Guillet.

Mafalda Salvatini

Born in Baiae, Salvatini was the daughter of an officer of the Italian Army.

Military Order of Savoy

This military order was to be granted to the soldiers who fought in the Italian army of Napoleon and became part of the Legion of Honor (or either obtained the honorary degree of Order of the Iron Crown) due to military merit.

Puttee

The puttee was subsequently widely adopted by a number of armies including those of the British Commonwealth, the Chinese National Revolutionary Army, the Dutch Army, the French Army, the Imperial Japanese Army, the Italian Army, and the United States Army.

Slobodna Dalmacija

The first issue of Slobodna Dalmacija was published on June 17, 1943 by Tito's Partisans in a cave on Mosor, a mountain near Split, which was occupied by the Italian army during that time.

Vatican during the Savoyard Era 1870–1929

King Victor Emmanuel II sent Count Gustavo Ponza di San Martino to Pius IX with a personal letter offering a face-saving proposal that would have allowed the peaceful entry of the Italian Army into Rome, under the guise of offering protection to the pope.