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21/11/16 | History

"We assault England!": The board game designed by Nazi propaganda that perhaps consoled Adolf Hitler

Conquering the 'perfidious Albion' remained for a long time the desire of the führer, as for the emperor Napoleon before him; neither of them succeeded: Hitler, however, from singing ...

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14/11/16 | History

Cancellara, ceremony dedicated to the "Fallen and Missing in War"

On Thursday 10 November took place in Cancellara (PZ), the commemorative ceremony dedicated to the "Fallen and Missing in the war". The event, divided into two parts, had ...

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04/11/16 | History

Nazi secret base discovery in the Arctic Circle: Schatzgraber exists

Schatzgraber, the Nazi secret base built by direct order of Adolf Hitler in the 1942 during Operation Barbarossa, was located by a group of Russian scientists ....

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08/09/16 | History

The Navy and the 8 September 1943 - An invisible and decisive blue wire

Talk about the defense of Rome between the evening of 8 September 1943, a quarter of an hour after the announcement of the Italian armistice broadcast on the radio, and the afternoon of the 10th, when he entered ...

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22/08/16 | History

D'Annunzio and Gramsci prophets in River

Defectors forward, so defined Filippo Tommaso Marinetti the authors of the Rijeka enterprise led by the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio. Just under three thousand legionaries who escaped from ...

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12/08/16 | History

The Greek War of Independence: Byron l'archistrategos

Greece, ancient land, known for its philosophers and poets, first of all the great Homer (who knows if it was really Greek!), Between 1400 and 1800 was subjected to ...

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09/08/16 | History

100 years ago the sacrifice of Nazario Sauro: memory of the first violator of ports of the Navy

Venice, 30 July 1916, 10.00 am: Nazario Sauro embarks on the Pullino submarine for his XNUMXnd war action. The mission foresees the forcing of the port of ...

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05/08/16 | History

"Sporty Huns": German pilots who risked their lives to warn that two British prisoners were safe

When it comes to war pilots, it often ends up in the rhetoric of those who, despite being thrown into the Total War, decided to remain attached to ...

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27/06/16 | History

Marina Militare and Arma, a combination that is more than a century long

Port of Anzio - 11 November 1910. “The Carabinieri today delivers to you, commanders, crews of the two ...

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31/05/16 | History

Jutland Jack: 100 years after the memory of the courage of a sixteen year old

"It is not wealth or ancestry, but honourable conduct and a noble disposition that maketh men great" (I am not the ...

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24/05/16 | History

13 February 1942: the sinking of the Tempest submarine by the torpedo boat Circe

On February 12, 1942, the torpedo boat Circe, under the command of Lieutenant Captain Stefanino Palmas, was carrying out ...

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16/05/16 | History

The Royal Navy during the Great War to defend the "Serenissima"

In the collective imagination the Great War is identified with the terrestrial conflict: trenches, mud and mountains. This ...

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09/05/16 | History

Rapallo beats Trafalgar 141 to 10. History and Glory of our Marina

Ugo Foscolo shouted, 22 January 1809, speaking in the classroom of the University of Pavia that today bears his name, the ...

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07/05/16 | History

May 7, 1943, the X MAS Flotilla attacked

There were countless forcing operations in English ports undertaken by the men of the X MAS Flotilla ...

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02/05/16 | History

15 August 1943 - The Three of Capo Spartivento

The task of the Historical Office of the Navy is not to recall the past, but to study the application of Power ...

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18/04/16 | History

"The war is over, let me take you as prisoners", the story of a South African pilot shot down in Italy

Peter During, 7 Sqn pilot in force of the SAAF (South African Air Force) was shot down by crossfire ...

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21/03/16 | History

The battles of Agedabia and Antelat, the third San Marco battalion in Africa seventeen

Shortly after the exhaustion of Operation Crusader (World War II), which ended in December 1941 with a ...

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07/03/16 | History

The Great Adventure of St. George. A little-known episode in the history of the Navy

Ships have a name and a soul. Often the three things (ship, name and soul) coincide. A famous case is that of San ...

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26/02/16 | History

The sinking of the Soviet submarine Shch-203

During the Second World War, the Germans invoked loudly the intervention in the Black Sea of "means ...

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18/02/16 | History

"Mae West" saved by the procure forms of an American actress

Perhaps not everyone knows the story behind the nickname of the life jacket used by pilots ...

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