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 destroyers Corazziere and Carabiniere, these banners that we ...
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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 honorable conduct and a noble disposition that maketh men great" (I am not the wealth or the lineage, but the honorable conduct and the noble ...
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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 the lieutenant captain Stefanino Palmas, was carrying out an escort operation in the Gulf of Taranto, when at ...
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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 is explained by the number of mobilized members of the Royal Army, ...
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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, his famous "Italians, I urge you to stories". It was the motto ...
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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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12/02/16  |  History
Army: The Extraordinary Commissioner of Rome Trunks at the exhibition on the Great War
This morning the Extraordinary Commissioner of Rome Francesco Paolo Tronca visited the exhibition on the Great War ...
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29/12/15  |  History
29 December 1941: Rescue of the Survivors of Atlantis and Python
One of the most beautiful (and least known) stories of the Second World War sees protagonists, at the end of the year ...
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29/12/15  |  History
The clash in the Otranto Canal of December 1915
The 29 December 1915, right in the same waters where the rescue of passengers and crew took place ...
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29/12/15  |  History
29 December 1881: The rangefinder on board
Thursday - The rangefinder designed by Rear Admiral Luigi Fincati to measure ...
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28/12/15  |  History
28 December 1908: Earthquake in Messina
Monday - At 05.21 a series of seismic shocks lasting 37 “of the intensity that reaches the 10 ° of the scale ...
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Tribute (due) to the 80th "Roma" infantry who takes leave with honor

Well, yes, we are now used to witnessing the closure of the barracks and perhaps even a little to burying the long history of the departments, a phenomenon which however does not erase the memories. It also touched...

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"Il Signor Parolini" (ninth part)

The baked chicken, as expected, had lived up to its reputation, consolidating, where needed, the undisputed culinary mastery of Gastone, chief ...

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Syria: The Most Vile Betrayal
Do you see this photo? It is from 2015. Behind me, there are the faces of some of the tens of thousands of soldiers and volunteers who sacrificed their lives to defend their homeland. The...
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Letter to Difesa Online: "Are the chiefs of staff also censored now?"
Dear director, I have read the speech given by General Masiello to the 40th of the Lagunari and, remembering having read the Army Press Release (it dates back to 25 June, you were not...
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