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📚 History of the Italian Navy on YouTube
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Italian Military Archives @ima-naval-history.bsky.social · Jul 28
📣Hi everyone, I am bringing you some Italian military history, especially Naval history (WW1 and WW2) on my YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@ItalianMili...

📺Finally landing on this platform, where I have the pleasure of finding many familiar and interesting profiles and friends
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Understanding the conduct of the war by the Italian navy implies an understanding of specific geographical and structural limitations the Regia Marina faced. You can find out more in this video!
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The Italian strategy in the Mediterranean 1940 1943
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January 29, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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Coal, maritime blockades and railways. How did they link to Italy's entry into World War II?
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Italy towards the War: 1939-1940
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January 25, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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The armored cruiser San Giorgio served in the great war and all along the 20s and 30s. In 1940 she was placed in Tobruk harbor to act as a floating AA and coastal battery.
Here's the story:
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Armoured cruiser San Giorgio, the watchdog of Tobruk
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January 25, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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Today in 'let's make fun of the Italian army, they always surrender at the first opportunity', we have the Bardia edition.

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Screenshot from a lecture on the capture of Bardia, January 1941. "The necessity of mopping up carefully was brought out by one incident. In the attack an enemy arty officer was left up a pole OP and some time he continued to direct the fire of his bty on the "break-in" gap." AWM Wallet 27 of 90 - Papers relating to the battles of Bardia and Tobruk, 1941 Berryman, Sir Frank Horton (Lieutenant General, b.1894 - d.1981) Places Africa: North Africa, Libya, Cyrenaica, Bardia Area, Bardia Africa: North Africa, Libya, Cyrenaica, Tobruk Area, Tobruk Accession Number AWM2020.22.261 Collection number PR84/370 Collection type Digitised Collection Record type Wallet Item count 1 Object type Map, Typescript, Papers Physical description 43 Image/s captured Maker Berryman, Frank Horton Date made 1941 Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945 Source credit to This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government. Description Collection relating to the military career of VX20308 Lieutenant General Frank Horton Berryman, KCVO, CB, CBE, DSO, GHQ SWPA, GOC East (Md), 7 Australian Division (formerly 2 Corps, Land Headquarters (LHQ), 2 Australian Divisional Artillery, 5 Australian Field Artillery Brigade, 14 Australian Field Artillery Battery, 18 Australian Field Artillery Battery, Royal Australian Artillery, 6 Australian Division), 1920-1953. Wallet 27 of 90 - Wallet consists of a corpus of documents relating to the battles of Bardia that took place from 3-5 January 1941 and Tobruk, 21-22 January 1941. Collection includes tracings describing troop positions and movements, official reports on the operations of the 6 Australian Division, and handwritten notes.
January 4, 2026 at 7:31 AM
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Dear friends, I have resumed my work and the first video of the year is about a first set of book recommendations about the Italian navy in #ww2

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January 5, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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In the first quarterdeck episode I answered your questions about the following topics:
- Red Sea flotilla
- Italian submarines
- Italian war heroes
- Operation Abstention
- Battleship and battlecruiser designs
- Italian air force
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December 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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This evening at 9pm (CET) I am returning LIVE to answer your questions about the Italian navy in ww2
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December 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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📣Hi everyone, I am bringing you some Italian military history, especially Naval history (WW1 and WW2) on my YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@ItalianMili...

📺Finally landing on this platform, where I have the pleasure of finding many familiar and interesting profiles and friends
July 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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What events determined Italy's involvement in the second world war? Well, maritime issues played a relevant role..

More on that here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqJC...
December 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The Giussano class cruisers were among the first naval constructions initiated by Italy in the interwar period. I talked about the shipbuilding programmes of the Regia Marina in this video: youtu.be/UlJjyWJm3RI?...
November 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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This evening I am returning on @ww2tv.bsky.social together with Martin Debattista to discuss the situation of Malta in 1940 amd Italian plans against the island
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Malta 1940: Invasion by Italy?
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November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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The Italian intervention in #ww2 between maritime problems a d coal supplies..
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Italy towards the War: 1939-1940
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November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Superb original colour of a CANT Z.1007bis being maintained (engine oil replenishment) by hand on what is likely the Regia Aeronautica base at Rhodes. Opposite a SM.79 bomber.

Facebook I Cavalieri del Cielo la Regia Aeronautica Gyanni Syerra

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Contemporary colour picture of three ground crew undertaking what looks like re-oiling the starboard engine of a CANT Z.1007bis medium bomber on an Italian air base during WW2. The men are standing on the wing just above the engine, handling what looks like a large funnel.
November 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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In the early hours of #OTD 1941, Force K ambushed the Beta (or Duisburg) convoy on its way to North Africa and destroyed it in its entirety.

Two Italian destroyers were also lost, RCt Fulmine and Libeccio. @ima-naval-history.bsky.social @rjhammond215.bsky.social @marcusfaulkner.bsky.social
An unlucky group – the Regia Marina’s Dardo Series II Destroyers
Background In the early 1930s the Regia Marina continued expanding and modernising its destroyer fleet. Following the reduction in the construction programme for the larger light scouts of the Navi…
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November 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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The long and honourable career of the armoured cruiser San Giorgio, from the great war, to the shores of Tobruk
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November 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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An overlooked but very interesting clash in Mediterranean waters
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The battle of the Tarigo convoy
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November 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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#OTD in 1941 I./S.R.104 was assigned to Fortress Halfaya from 21. Panzerdivision. Two days later a furious letter from Division z.b.V. Afrika, then responsible for the Halfaya Pass, was sent to Panzergruppe command.

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Robbing Peter to pay Paul
Background Every so often in going through the mountain of files on my hard drive I come across one that makes me smile inwardly, despite the serious subject matter. Most of the time it’s because I…
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October 30, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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What was the Italian naval strategy in the Mediterranean during World War Two? Here is explained, with the words of Admiral Giuseppe Fioravanzo
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October 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Today at 9PM CET, I am answering your questions about the Italian Navy in #ww2 among the topics you requested, Mas boats, radar, naval aviation and more!
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Answering your questions on the Italian Navy in WW2 - QUARTERDECK n.2
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October 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Axis secret missions to the far east aimed at retrieving strategic materials for the German war machine. This is the incredible story that involved submarines and crews of the Italian Navy during World War Two, the subject of my latest video www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX5R...
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Axis transport missions to the Far East in WW2
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October 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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A rather splendid picture of an 88mm gun firing as ground artillery in North Africa. The gun is operated by an Italian crew, most likely belonging to the Ariete armoured division, in early 1942.

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North Africa somewhere, May/June 1942 (LUCE image archives) One of the first 88/55 guns purchased by the Italians in Germany (the German designation of this artillery piece was "8.8 cm Flak 36/Flak-Rohr 18"). Several hundreds of those pieces were requested by the Italian fascist government in Germany in 1940, the Germans offered to deliver several dozens of those pieces althogheter with a number of Czech AA 75mm pieces, in 1940 and more later on. The first ones were initially sent to Tripoli for anti-aircraft defense of the sea port, and later assigned to the ‘Ariete’ and ‘Littorio’ divisions. This particular gun in the photo was assigned to the 13th or 14th battery of the 5th Group, 132nd Artillery Regiment of the Armored Division ‘Ariete’. The officer wearing a sahariana (desert tunic) a side cap and a black armband is possibly the artillery group commander, Major Pasqualini. Facebook ‘North Africa Campaign Group’ SalvatoreSalvatore
October 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Axis secret missions to the far east aimed at retrieving strategic materials for the German war machine. This is the incredible story that involved submarines and crews of the Italian Navy during World War Two, the subject of my latest video www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX5R...
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Axis transport missions to the Far East in WW2
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October 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Today's favourite #warart

Giulio Aristide Sartorio - Pontoon "Tigre" (1917) - Rome, Palazzo della Farnesina

Pontoon-mounted heavy gun for the defence of Venice after Caporetto.

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English Giulio Aristide Sartorio - Pontoon "Tigre" (1917) - Rome, Palazzo della Farnesina Summary edit Giulio Aristide Sartorio: Pontoon (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL) Create new Wikidata item based on this file) Artist Giulio Aristide Sartorio (1860–1932) wikidata:Q1062517 s:it:Autore:Giulio Aristide Sartorio q:it:Giulio Aristide Sartorio Giulio Aristide Sartorio Alternative names Birth name: Giulio Aristide Sartorio; G. A. Sartorio; Aristide Sartorio; giulio aristide sartorio; g. a. sartorio; A. Sartorio; Sartorio G. A.; G. A. S. Description Italian painter, sculptor, writer and film director Date of birth/death 11 February 1860 Edit this at Wikidata 3 October 1932 Edit this at Wikidata Location of birth/death Rome Edit this at Wikidata Horti Galateae Edit this at Wikidata Work period circa 1876 Edit this at Wikidata–1932 Edit this at Wikidata Work location Rome; Naples (1879); Paris (1884); Paris (1889); Paris (1893); United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1893); Middle East (1919); South America (1924); Mediterranean Sea (1929); Weimar (1896–1899); Italian Front (1917–1918) Edit this at Wikidata Authority file wikidata:Q1062517: Q1062517 VIAF: 57427015 ISNI: 0000000121345620 ULAN: 500016640 LCCN: n79065097 Open Library: OL905545A WorldCat Photographer Francesco Taurisano Title Italian: Tigre Pontoon "Tigre" Object type painting Description Pontoon "Tigre" (1917), by Giulio Aristide Sartorio Medium oil on canvas glued on cardboard Dimensions height: 58 cm (22.8 in); width: 78 cm (30.7 in) Collection Museum collection of the Farnesina (Q3683042) Accession number 1917 Place of creation Italian Front, World War I Credit line Provenance: Italian Club of Sao Paulo, Brasil Inscriptions Signature and date upperlefr: G.A. Sartorio Capo ... - XII - Dicembre MCMXVII Source/Photographer Google Arts & Culture — DQEV4L9GLjcc9Q
October 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Attacking New York with midget submarines? Well, someone in the Regia Marina thought about it. I talked about this story in this video on the curious C.A. class midget submarines: youtu.be/SM5dU6Wrdbk?...
October 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Chatting with @drachinifel.bsky.social on the relevance of naval battles and Sea power. We also look at the perception of the Royal Navy towards the Regia Marina and the Kriegsmarine

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Seapower and battles - reflections with @Drachinifel
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September 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM