Weird and obscure stuff from Italy?
Ww2 italy thread
Grayson Johnson
Angel Clark
Pasta ravioli
Formuloni
Daniel Campbell
Bopita boopy, in WW2 Italy took it where they poopy.
Ryan Morgan
I own a carcano
Nolan Gray
their reasonable and sometimes impressive performance was obscured by the British claiming that they were actually fighting Germans.
Elijah Ortiz
Buta main any spegati do ah break
Ian Anderson
Have you also spent a good amount of time in Havana with a man by the name of Jack Ruby? If so, I may have a job for you.
Josiah Reyes
Weren’t there a number of cases where the Germans ended up fighting in Italy, especially as the Italian state collapsed?
Nicholas Kelly
They were so bad they were too ashamed to take pictures.
Jacob Torres
There's also that one unit that wasn't aware that their country switched sides and were promptly executed by the SS
Joshua Price
Xavier Cook
Jacob Cook
Brayden Sanchez
Ryan Martin
Christian Ross
Alexander Powell
Not trying to be a dick here but what did Italy do in WW2?
Brandon King
Grayson Johnson
Jace Morales
Nolan Allen
Brayden Sanders
FEEL SUN ON MY FACE
SHARPENED LIKE A RAZOR BLADE
FEEL THE RISING PAIN INSIDE
BODY, SOUL AND BRAIIIIN
LIVING MONSTER OF THE NIGHT
YOU MADE ME WHAT I AM TODAY
YOU DON'T HAVE TO SCREAM AND SHOUT
IN THIS
SILENT PLACE
Adam Gonzalez
WARDEN OF YOUR NIGHTMAAARE
A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LAAAANE
Elijah Sanchez
Owen Parker
Jayden Parker
Jace Price
Logan Davis
Hunter Turner
Hudson Harris
Michael Morales
Lose massively. We have this thread once in a while, but the truth is very simple: Italy was a barely industrial country with subpar military leadership and completely idiotic political leadership. You don't larp being a great power without being one: all you'll obtain will be one tragedy after the other. It wasn't the character of the fighting man (even if very few believed in Fascism) nor the equipment (even if it was sometimes old or badly designed), the basic truth was that a poor agricultural country can't play with the big boys, particularly if you have a bunch of retards in command. Easy as that.
Luke Miller
>Weird and obscure stuff from Italy?
They performed a fucking cavalry charge against the machine guns of a Russian regiment.
They're okay in my book.
Jaxon Rogers
>first practical and widespread aplication of camouflaged fabrics (telo mimetico)
>first practical and widespread use of submachine guns (Villar-Perosa)
>first practical and widespread use of tactical vests
>first automatic rifle (not practical or widespread however)
noice
Landon Scott
Jesus Christ go back to r*ddit
Henry Harris
Had a relative who fought on the Russian front. Doesn't talk about it but the one thing he would always mention was the cold.
Mason Scott
why do the pizza pals have a lascannon?
Austin Richardson
Grabbed some land in North Africa, helped the Germans hold it under Rommel (performance improved when not under Italian command). Then their Navy did an ok last ditch job defending the Mediterranean
Kevin King
Carro Valoce L3/33 Lanciafiamme
Henry Morris
Jacob Butler
Elijah Lee
L3 with Solothurn S 18-1000 anti-tank rifle.
Tyler Cook
Brayden Ramirez
I tried playing an Italian campaign in modded Men of War AS
Even the shittiest brit tanks were like Tigers to me
Jonathan Hall
that looks really cool
Hudson Gutierrez
They actually succeeded in it too, the mad bastards.
en.wikipedia.org
>Avanti Savoia!
Joshua Reed
Good thread, Italy is very underlooked despite being a big player at the time. It's not like they were terrible at fighting but the Italian industry was nowhere near as modern or capable to achieve what the politicians demanded. I see it as similar to Imperial Japan at the time; competent enough to pose a regional threat but they were never going to win against the enemies they roped into the fight. Good for the 1920s & 1930s, but unfortunately for them it was the 1940s.
Colton Gutierrez
Justin Lopez
Holy shit
Adam Wood
That's badass. A cavalry charge in 1942. I wish some of this stuff got more attention, Italians vs Soviets is a really interesting setup.
There's also this tragically hilarious part:
>Corporal Lolli, unable to draw, as his saber was frozen in its sheath, charged holding high a hand grenade; Trumpeter Carenzi, having to handle both trumpet and pistol, shot by mistake his own horse in the head.
Blake Flores
Watch HOT Lolli get blown while friend watches until head shoots cum.
Jeremiah Fisher
I was waiting for this thread.
Many of you guys are familiar with the story of the Cappellini, the submarine that went from the Italian Navy to the German one and ended the war fighting for Japan.
An odd story, but it doesn't really end there.
There was an Italian crew member that refused to came back in Italy and being called traitor and spent the rest of his life in Japan and married a Japanese woman.
I am quite sure he has died but it would be a great honour for me to go there and investigate, I am sure his story is still remembered and I would like to make a hombrewed documentary about the guy, maybe a book.
regiamarina.net
Link is an article in Italian, this guy is a ghost when he is instead a man with an amazing story worth to be remembered
Nicholas Martinez
IIRC Erwin Rommel said that the Italians were terribly under-equipped and their leadership was every bit as awful as people made it out to be.
He also mentioned how they were very brave and tenacious despite everything.
And then there's pic related: The Fiat G55 Centauro, believed to be the best fighter of 1943. Although it used an inverted V12 kraut engine, so there's that.
Jason Nguyen
>spent the rest of his life in Japan and married a Japanese woman.
the man that started it all
Hunter Walker
Pic related Motobomba FFF
It was a low speed torpedo-like weapon meant to be dropped by airplanes. Once in the water the device started to make spiral trajectories. The weapon was meant to be used in harbours or against convoys.
Launching a sufficient number of them against a convoy meant that the ships had to scatter and disperse, causing them to be easier pray for bomb and torpedoes.
Germans used it on a larger scale obtaining good success
Eli Moore
Next time, without Germany.
Henry Morales
Ayden Torres
1. Their uniforms look pretty good overall, some neat stuff like the smg magazine vest.
2. Watching a video by the channel Oversimplified and he said that by 1943 some Italians didn't want to fight the Americans because a lot of Italians emigrated to the United States and some came back as GIs. There was a bond that contributed to the fighting ending there. Is there any truth to that?
Tyler Russell
Best MG of the war!
Brayden Kelly
Bump
Brody Reyes
Elijah Jackson
Never heard of that. Most people didn't want to fight because Mussolini was an idiot and the Germans were shipping people to Germany for slave labor
Jaxon Hill
>en.wikipedia.org
>Corporal Lolli
>shot by mistake his own horse in the head.
Isaac Davis
A fun experiment is to compare Italian sources and Soviet sources on the breakout: the Soviets pretty much ignore everyone that escaped and focus only on the massive amount of prisoners they got, while the Itas pretty much remember only the few that "heroically" escaped. The interviews the NKVD did to captured Italian officers are hilarious, they pretty much all start praising the Soviets to the high heavens and shit talking the Germans, while maintaining they don't do politics because no soldier should.
Leaving the Soviets completely dumbfounded because this was incomprehensible for them. Sorta hilarious.
Connor Gutierrez
Ryan Williams
Comfy/10