on the weapon request, that is a MG34, also just out of curiosity is the other girl Italian Army? Wehrmacht doesn't have any collar star insignia on quick search, Italian 2nd Lieutenants have a star but then again the caption says Eastern Front. also the machinegunner doesn't have spare barrels on her so good luck with that melting barrel
nvm it just hit me like a train shes eating spaghetti shes italian
also just out of curiosity is the other girl Italian Army? Wehrmacht doesn't have any collar star insignia on quick search, Italian 2nd Lieutenants have a star but then again the caption says Eastern Front.
Italian troops did serve on the Eastern Front, yes, as well as Slovaks and Hungarians. They were mostly under Army Group South (, Ukraine, Stalingrad and the Caucasus). There weren't many of them, and they mostly did second-line duties (well, the Italians were part of the failed attempt to rescue 6th army from Stalingrad), but they were certainly present.
I'm good at tagging but I always feel so useless when military bros add a billion unusual tags We need to rename weapon request to military tags request
For you guys who don't know it, as far as April or march Benito Mussolini could see Hitler Prepqring to attack Soviet union and Benito Mussolini also prepares his troop as well to eastern front and in August 1941 Benito Mussolini Made CSIR (Corpo Spedzione Italiani In Russia) or Italian Expedition Corps in Russia. This Corp was 60,000 strong with many experience Italian troop taken from north Africa and additional green troops. The first combat for CSIR was in August where the Famous thing Italian Do sometimes went unnoticed was "The charge at Izbushensky. Where Italian 3rd cavalry regiment Charge on their Horses Back with Swords, Pistols, Grenades and Lancers against soviet 304th Rifle Division. Italian Basically Routed the whole Soviet Division. And they took of so many left behind equipment and many prisoners even though Soviet had machineguns and artillery. Italian troops were lead by Colonel Alessandro Bettoni di Cazzago. This event Made me fall in love with Italian troops. When in 1942 Mussolini keep seeing good news from eastern front he upgrade his troops in eastern front and officially announced ARMIR (Armata Italiana In Russia) or Italian Army in Russia or about 200,000 troops. He sent more Italian troops to help German. Or they were calles Italian 8th Army. And Basically wiped out in Stalingrad with other Axis Forces.