This article is about an Italian army in the Desert War of North African Campaign. The 131st Centauro Armoured Division was a Italian reinforced division, founded on 20 April of 1939 in Cremona from the 1st Brigata Corazzata. During the course of World War II, it was deployed in Albania, on participating in the invasions [...]
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131 Armoured Division Centauro
October 31st, 2011 
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Posted in Forces, Italian Army, The Axis Forces 
Tags: african campaign, desert war, italian army, world war ii 
No Comments »British 44th Infantry Division
October 6th, 2011 admin This article is about a British army in the Desert War of North African Campaign. The 44th (Home Counties) Infantry Division was a British infantry division in both the First World War and the Second World War served. The 44th Infantry Division was founded in 1908. At the outbreak of the First World War, it [...]
Johannes Streich
October 6th, 2011 admin This article is about a Nazi German officer in the Desert War of North African Campaign. Johannes Streich was a German officer who served during the First and Second World War. Johannes Streich was born on 16 April, 1891, in Augustenburg, Germany. After leaving school in 1911, he joined the army as fanenyunker of the [...]
Victor Buller Turner
October 6th, 2011 admin This article is about a British officer in the Desert War of North African Campaign. Lieutenant Colonel Victor Buller Turner VC CVO (January 17, 1900 – August 7, 1972) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross; he was from Reading of Berkshire. This award was the highest and most prestigious award for bravery against the [...]
136 Infantry Division Giovani Fascisti
October 6th, 2011 admin This article is about an Italian army in the Desert War of North African Campaign. The Young Fascists Armored Division (the 136th Infantry Division Giovani Fascisti) was nominally one of the Big Unit of the Royal Army in World War II. The division was formed in August 1940 as Group Young Fascists Battalions under the [...]
Posted in Forces, Italian Army, The Axis Forces Tags: african campaign, desert war, italian army, world war ii No Comments »Friedrich von Mellenthin
October 5th, 2011 admin This article is about a Nazi German officer in the Desert War of North African Campaign. Friedrich Wilhelm von Mellenthin (1904 – 1997) was a General major in the German army during World War II. Mellenthin was born on August 30,1904 in Breslau, Silesia, in a family of professional soldiers. In September 1939, he participated [...]
Rifle Brigade
October 5th, 2011 admin This article is about a British army in the Desert War of North African Campaign. The Rifle Brigade was a unit of the British Army formed in the early nineteenth century as elite force, incorporating tactics and weapons training methods revolutionary for its time. The name Rifle Corps experimental (the Experimental Corps of Riflemen) was [...]
David Stirling
October 4th, 2011 admin This article is about a Brtish officer in the Desert War of North African Campaign. The Colonel Sir Archibald David Stirling OBE, DSO (born on 15 November, 1915 in the county of Perthshire and died on 4 November, 1990) is a noble Scottish officer of the British Army during World War II, co-founder of SAS [...]
17 Motorised Division Pavia
October 4th, 2011 admin This article is about an Italian army in the Desert War of North African Campaign. The 17th Infantry Division “Pavia” was a large unit of the Royal Army during World War II. It was a truck-type North Africa Division, which was completely destroyed during the Second Battle of El Alamein in November 1942. The division [...]
German 164th Infantry Division
October 4th, 2011 admin This article is about a Nazi German army in the Desert War of North African Campaign. The 164th Infantry Division was a German division initially prepared for the tasks of training, and turns during the occupation of Crete, a division of the fortress and finally a motorized division. It fought in the arena of the [...]
