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 during the Second World War, to sink or damage the ...
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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 Maritime Power in all its dimensions. Among the many "news" of ...
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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, pilot in force at 7 Sqn. of the SAAF (South African Air Force) was shot down by crossfire from the ground in the second half of April 1945. In ...
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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 British victory over the Axis troops, “the ...
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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 Giorgio, a veteran of all the Italian wars since the ...
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26/02/16 | History
The sinking of the Soviet submarine Shch-203
During the Second World War, the Germans loudly called for the intervention in the Black Sea of the "insidious means" of the Italian Royal Navy, in order to be able to oppose ...
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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 Royal Air Force pilots engaged in missions on sections of ...
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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 at the Historical Museum of the Infantry in Piazza S. Croce in ...
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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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26/12/15 | History
26 December 1872: Established the Hydrographic Office of the Regia Marina
Thursday - The Office is established in Genoa, based in the astronomical observatory in the old fort of San Giorgio
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25/12/15 | History
25 December 1911: Giovanni Pascoli for the military in Tripolitania
Monday - The cards issued by the "Maritime Magazine" are distributed to the crews of the Naval Forces ...
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23/12/15 | History
23 December 1916: Delivered the Audace destroyer
Saturday - The destroyer Audace, the only unit of the class, built in ...
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22/12/15 | History
22 December 1863: The Magenta corvette enters service
Tuesday - 1 corvette, order in Magenta propeller, enters service in Genoa. Unity will take place in the Ligurian waters ...
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21/12/15 | History
21 December 1915: Giuseppe Miraglia TV dies
Tuesday - Lieutenant Giuseppe Miraglia, at the controls of his hydro Albatros, dies in a flight accident in ...
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19/12/15 | History
19 December 1904: The Dogali dates back to the Amazon River
Monday - Salpa from S. Maria of Belem (Brazil) the ram tightrunters Dogali under the command of the frigate captain Gregorio ...
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18/12/15 | History
18 December 1941: Alexandria Night
"The assault vehicle is the only means of war that asks itself the prodigious characteristic to realize ...
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16/12/15 | History
16 December 1902: International blockade of Venezuela for unpaid debts
Tuesday - After the ultimatums of the British, Germanic and Italian governments, the blockade of the Venezuelan coast begins with ...
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Publishing
This is not America? Migrant Chaos and Social Revolt in the United States
The American melting pot continues to simmer; this too is part of exceptionalism, albeit in a negative way. The United States, those with many stars on the flag, reiterate propensities...
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Letters to the Director
Why do Russians put tires on airplanes?
Many loyal readers have asked: “Why do images of aircraft and other vehicles, deployed and also used in operational situations, have tires on their structures?” Pressed...
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