The 4th Division CC.NN. January 3 was a division of Italy Voluntary Militia for National Security (MVSN), which was used in the War of Ethiopia and then in the North African Campaign during the Second World War. It was destroyed in January 1941 as part of Operation Compass. The name “January 3″ was given to [...]
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4th Blackshirt Division
November 9th, 2012 
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Tags: african campaign, italian troops, operation compass 
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January 23rd, 2012 admin This article is about a battlefield of Desert War of North African Campaign during World War II. Tripolitania is a historical region and geographical area inWest Libya. Strictly speaking area is concentrated around the coastal city of Tripoli. Extensively for Tripoli which occupies the western coast ofLibyameans an area of approximately 350,000 km². It is [...]
Francesco De Martini
December 18th, 2011 admin This article is about an Italian commander in the East African Campaign of World War II. Francesco De Martini (?- 1980) was an Italian military . Francesco de Martini was an Italian soldier. It was part of the column in 1936 occupied the town of Sardis during the Abyssinian War of Ethiopia. It gave a [...]
Amedeo Guillet
December 18th, 2011 admin This article is about an Italian commander in the East African Campaign of World War II. Amedeo Guillet, said Commander Devil, (Piacenza, 7 February, 1909 – Rome, 16 June, 2010), was an officer, warrior and diplomat Italian. He was born in a noble family of Piedmont and capuana source Savoy attended the Military Academy, from [...]
Italian guerrilla war in Ethiopia
December 14th, 2011 admin This article is about the guerrilla war after the end of East African Campaign. The Guerrilla war in Italian East Africa was carried out by British troops against about 7,000 Italian soldiers who refused to surrender after the fall of Gondar in November 1941. It lasted until the beginning of the autumn of 1943. The [...]
Abebe Aregai
December 14th, 2011 admin This article is about a commander of Ethiopia in East African Campaign. Ras Abebe Aregai was a strong politician of Ethiopia. Aregai Abebe was born on 18 August, 1903, his father was Aregay Becherae and his mother was Askale Gobena, his grandfather Ras Gobena Dachi was a famous general of Negusse Negest Menelik II. Before [...]
Haile Selassie I
December 14th, 2011 admin This article is about the Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie I, who took part in the East African Campaign. Haile Selassie I, (Egersa Goro, 23 July, 1892 – Addis Ababa, 27 August, 1975), was Negus of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1936 and 1941 to 1974. According to Ethiopian tradition, Ras Tafari Makonnen was crowned Emperor [...]
Alfred Reade Godwin-Austen
December 14th, 2011 admin This article is about a British officer in the East African Campaign of World War II. General Sir Alfred Reade Godwin-Austen (17 April, 1889 – March 20, 1963) was a British Army officer during World War I and World War II. Godwin-Austen in 1909 added to the South Wales Borderers and was for his service [...]
Italian commanders in East African Campaign
December 13th, 2011 admin This article is about some Italian commanders in the East African Campaign of World War II. Luigi Frusci Louis Frusci (Potenza, January 16th 1879 – 1949) was an Italian official, who participated in the war in Ethiopia, the Spanish Civil War and the East African Campaign. Frusci fought on the Southern Front under the command [...]
Pietro Gazzera
December 13th, 2011 admin Pietro Gazzera This article is about an Italian officer in the East African Campaign of World War II. Pietro Gazzera (Well Vagienna, 11 December 1879 – Cirie, 30 June 1953) was an Italian political and military. He was born in Vagienna Well in the province of Cuneo, took part in the Italo-Turkish War and the [...]
