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Downfall of Italy: 1944–1945

This video continues the story of Italy’s collapse in the final years of World War II. It examines the Allied advance up the ...
The Italian submarine, the Scirè, wasn't a large boat like some of the most advanced nuclear submarines in the ocean today. It only held a crew of 36, measured fewer than 200 feet in length, and was ...
The Strategy and Politics of Fascist Italy during World War II You will learn something new when reading this well written and well edited book about the war effort of Italy in World War II. The ...
The Folgore’s lightweight construction (weighing around 5,500 pounds) and responsive handling earned it praise from its pilots and avowed respect from its adversaries. Looking back on the Axis Powers ...
Si so Su Grande Grande Fredo, it wasn't such *** huge leap of the imagination for Italians to also join in and participate in the persecution of Jews. It was sophisticated and planned and ...
Nearly 80 years after two U.S. Army Air Forces pilots were shot down in Tuscany, Air Crash Po uncovers the story of their ...
You just have to wonder about the feelings of 499 Italian men as they stepped off a train at Guasti in east Ontario one morning early in 1944. This was no tourist excursion. They were World War II ...
Greek resistance to the Axis powers during the Second World War was the longest of all the nations of western Europe.
The ceremony, held in Trieste, coincided with the 71st anniversary of the city’s return to Italy and marks the ship’s ...
An Italian teenager who found a World War II soldier's bracelet in the woods near his European home has made it his mission to return it to the rightful owners half a world away. "I was interested in ...
CAMP ATTERBURY — The 36th Annual Mass and commemorative ceremony honoring the more than 3,000 Italian prisoners of war who were held at Camp Atterbury during World War II will be at Our Lady’s Chapel ...