#italy campaign

[walkingthroughthisworld]

The M4 Medium with an M4 105mm Howitzer was a solution for a problem they didn’t know they had until the Italy Campaign. The M7 Priest did not work well in the direct fire role it was sometimes called to fill. The mount was not very accurate for direct fire, and there was no fixing it. It was also poorly suited to direct fireworks with its light armor. The solution was mounting the 105mm gun in the M4 series. This required a rework of the gun and mount, but it was ready before the Normandy landings and, once in use, were well-liked, replacing the M7 in Tank Company and Battalion 105 support roles. All 105 Shermans were either M4s or M4A3s, and all were built by Chrysler.

(via 105 mm M4 Howitzer Information Page | The Sherman Tank Site)

[illustratus]

Napoleon Bonaparte reviewing the Army of Italy in Nice on 27 March 1796 by Jacques Onfroy de Bréville

[ic-napology]

So there was this bridge and I developed a superiority complex

So there was this bridge and I fell of the bridge

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So I made a haha funny bullet pointed list of Napoleon's life according to my history teacher's lectures... I might as well share some parts that I'm proud of >:)

[josefavomjaaga]

Eugène gets promoted (battle of Marengo)

Translated from the first volume of "Mémoires et correspondance politique et militaire du Prince Eugène" by Albert DuCasse again. This is about the second half of the battle of Marengo, when Desaix's arrival on the battlefield enabled the French to take the offensive again:

Finally, at around five o'clock, General Desaix joined us, and the First Consul was able to resume the offensive. General Lannes' troops, encouraged by this reinforcement, reformed, and soon the attack began, as did the enemy's retrograde march. General Kellermann's cavalry made a very fine charge on our left and, towards evening, the guard cavalry made an equally brilliant one. Although the terrain did not favour us, since we had two ditches to cross, we rushed with vigour against a column of cavalry much more numerous than us, just as it was deploying; we pushed it as far as the first bridges over the waters of the Bormida, constantly attacking with our sabres. The melee lasted ten minutes: I was lucky enough to get away with two sabre blows to my shabrack. The next day, the First Consul, on hearing the account of the affair, appointed me chef d'escadron. My squadron had suffered quite a bit, for, of the one hundred and fifteen horses I had in the morning, I had only forty-five left in the evening; it is true that a picket of fifteen chasseurs had remained close to the First Consul, and that many of the chasseurs, dismounted or slightly wounded, returned one after the other.

The official date of the promotion is 9 July 1800, and according to the "Moniteur", that's two days after Berthier had returned to Paris. Eugène himself at this time was still on the march.

(There's also sometimes cited a letter from Napoleon to Josephine, praising Eugène for taking captive an Austrian general during the battle. However, that letter is pretty sure a later fabrication, as there are so many. Eugène makes no mention of such an event.)

[zatdummesmadchen]

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[carbone14]

Général Montgomery à son quartier général de la 8th Army – Campagne d'Italie – Termoli – Italie – 9 novembre 1943

Photographe : Sergent Bourne - No. 2 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit

©Imperial War Museums - NA 8536

[ditedesign]

Love Sex Money, 2003

Vogue Italia archive

[lonestarbattleship]

"USS SAVANNAH (CL-42) afire immediately after she was hit by a German guided bomb during the Salerno Operation. Smoke is pouring from the bomb's impact hole atop the ship's number three 6/47 gun turret."

Date: September 11, 1943

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: SC 243636

[vox-anglosphere]

Christmas dinner for Canadian soldiers while fighting in Italy - 1943

[schleyer]

what if italy had been divided after the war

[illustratus]

Napoleon Bonaparte leading the charge at the Bridge of Arcole (details) by Horace Vernet

[sachyriel]

This is the story about the Fifth Army and its assault on Anzio in late January, 1944, with hopes of reaching Rome.

[the-cunt-of-montecristo]

October 15th 2023

The major Italian newspapers are flat out lying about the peaceful pro-Palestine march that happened yesterday in Milan.

They describe it as attended by relatively few Palestinians, and the bulk of the protesters being "Arabs from North Africa" and "radical leftist fringes". The interviewed protesters - all brownTM - characterized as "Tunisian raised in Milan" and "resident of [italian town] from Egypt".

All of this to avoid saying the word "Italian".

The march was full of Italians. We were all Italians, regardless of the other nationalities some people might also hold.

The press focused on the "veiled girls" which are one of the scariest thing to ever happened to the west. They completely ignored the sheer amount of FAMILIES with CHILDREN, both white and brown Italians, marching peacefully.

They claimed we "insulted Netanyahu" and "shouted anti-semitic slogans". Bibi was called a murderer, which is not an insult but an adjective that describes someone who does what he does. Israel was called criminal, fascist and genocidal, all things it manifestly is. Not a word was said against the Jews; it was often remarked by the organizers how this was not a matter of religion, how Palestinians ARE semites, and how Judaism =/= Zionism.

The press pretended there were no "true" italians at the march, all the while openly comparing Hamas to alQuaeda and Daesh (always Isis on their papers), criticizing the choice of holding the march "on Shabbat" as if that was an intentional choice and not an organizational necessity, and publishing interviews to the Israeli ambassador about how "other democratic countries banned these protest in favor of terrorism, why doesn't Italy?" with heavy implications that it's because italy is antisemitic. All the while equating Jew and Israeli, and claiming that Israelis feel unsafe in Europe because of the widespread pro-Palestine sentiment.

The march was criticized for the absence of peace flags and lack of "focus on the part of the organizers on the matter of peace."

Peace WAS discussed. The first day of peace will be the last day of the occupation.

As the organizers spoke, they received news that in that very moment a hospital in Gaza had been flattened. People were dying as we marched. An organizer, a girl named Filastin, lost her voice from crying out her people's pain and anger and commitment to justice, until someone else had to take over to lead a "free Palestine" chant.

As Filastin said, people in revolt are those whp write history. Intifada until victory.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

[josefavomjaaga]

A little adventure on the way to war

This is an excerpt from a letter Eugène wrote to his sister Hortense from Lausanne (on 21 May 1800?) while on the way to join Napoleon's army for the second Italian Campaign. Unfortunately there are several occasions where I failed to decipher Eugène's excited scribblings and had to make a guess from context.

Also: proof that troops showing up in time for a battle could depend on various factors...

[...] The prefect of Lons-le-Saunier having detained me for [dinner?] on the day of my departure from this town, I could not refuse and ordered the troops to leave. I only kept one chasseur d'ordonnance. In the evening there was a concert, and I could not leave until 3am the next morning. The weather seemed to be perfect and the rising dawn seemed to herald the most beautiful sunshine of a fine day. As luck would have it, I got lost and, after having travelled for 4 hours, I had to ask for directions. A respectable ploughman, urged to work by the need to live, told me that I was on a road completely opposite to the one I had to follow, and designed for me as the shortest route the crossing [???] of the Jura mountains. There the weather changed; a horrible hailstorm accompanied by thunder and lightning seemed to threaten the [???] of these steep mountains where we and our horses could barely keep up.

So, let’s summarize: one utterly hungover cavalry captain starts his journey at 3 in the morning, and as neither he nor his orderly seem to have bothered to check a map, they only realize when the sun is up and after questioning the locals that they’ve been riding into the wrong direction for four hours. Time to go mountaineering.

Soon dreadful screams strike my ear; they seem to come from the bottom of the precipice. To go down there is to risk your life, but to save that of an unfortunate woman! I do not hesitate. I leave the horses in the hands of the soldier who accompanies me and I plunge into the crooked twists and turns of this labyrinth. I cross [crevices?], I climb rocks on my way to the bottom of a [gorge?] which seemed to be the unknown haven of a [torrent of mountain streams?].

What did I see at last? A young shepherdess. Not like those of Gesnes or Florence, but a humble peasant girl to whom nature had bestowed poverty and innocence, not luxury but beauty.

Trying to jump a torrent, her foot had slipped and the speed of the water had carried her down the mountain. We rejoined our horses and I led her to her cottage, from where she taught me the way to St. Laurent so that I could never go wrong again. We thanked the heavens, she for having found a protector and I for having found a guide.

And Napoleon probably for his troops eventually catching up with the rest of the army so he could start what would become the Marengo campaign.

But most importantly: Hortense, it’s true! When you do that whole knight & adventure thing, there really is a pretty girl at the end of it! Just like in the novels!

[zatdummesmadchen]

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