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6th June 1944 - 6th June 2024...

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Adieu Monsieur Philippe Leroy...

Well Known French Actor who chose Italy as second country...

Former French Army Parachutist Officer veteran of Indochina and Algeria War.

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Caporal chef Auguste Apel a legionnaire with the 2e Bataillon Étranger de Parachutistes (2eme BEP) during the battle of Na San,Indochina 23 november - 2 december 1952. Photo Pierre Ferrari

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A good book about WW1 Royal Italian Army Assault Troops to be released soon...

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"La lotta raggiungeva dimensioni gigantesche, rispetto alle quali il destino del singolo scompariva. L'ampiezza e la mortale solitudine dei campi, l'effetto a distanza delle macchine di acciaio e il rinvio di qualsiasi movimento alle ore della notte calavano sugli eventi la rigida maschera dei titani. Ci si scagliava verso la morte senza vedere il nemico; si veniva colpiti senza sapere da che parte arrivava lo sparo. […] La decisione risultava da un calcolo aritmetico: chi poteva ricoprire con la maggior quantità di colpi un determinato numero di metri quadrati, aveva la vittoria in pugno. La battaglia era un brutale scontro di masse, una lotta sanguinosa della produzione e dei materiali.”

"Il Tenente Sturm" Ernst Junger.

Ernst Junger e Werner Kienitz,Fronte Occidentale,settembre 1917.

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Greywolves...

WW2 German Kriegsmarine U-boot Commanders Kapitanleutnant Engelbert Endrass and Kapitanleutnant Erich Topp.

1941

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Two US Navy Seals with River Task Force 116 in the Vietnam Delta - 1967

Note the Seal on the left is carrying an early Stoner 63 in the LMG configuration, the Seal on the right is carrying an M79 Grenade Launcher with a 9mm Smith & Wesson Model 39 in a holster on his chest rig.

LIFE Magazine Archives - Co Rentmeester Photographer WWP-PD

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"The Oldest,the Bravest,the Wisest..."

Royal Italian Army "Arditi" Assault Troops Warrant Officer Emidio Gasperini pictured in Fiume,1920.

Il "Nestore" dei Legionari di D'Annunzio a Fiume...

Il piu' vecchio,il piu' coraggioso e il piu' saggio.

Emidio Gasperini da Bologna.1920

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French Foreign Legion 2eme REP Paras ready to board an aircraft for a training jump.

Solenzara Airbase,Corsica 1981.

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Somewhere in Ukraine...

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German Actor Fritz Wepper (middle) starring in the well known anti-war movie "Die Brucke" 1959.

Fritz Wepper is well known as police inspector Harri Klein in the german TV series "Derrick".

Wepper passed away yesterday 25 march 2024.

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Italian Army Bersaglieri training with Beretta ARX assault rifle and "Panzerfaust"...

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U.S. Actors Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine as Gabriel Feraud and Armand D'Hubert starring in Ridley Scott's movie "The Duellists" (1977).

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Awesome portrait of WW2 German Luftwaffe "Stuka" Pilot Ernst Kupfer.

Kupfer was an Highly Decorated Pilot.

He was KIA over Greece in 1943.

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WW2 German Wehrmacht Afrika Korps Panzer III crewman drinking some water atop his tank...

Libya-Egypt battlefront,early 1942.

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"Siamo trenta d'una sorte e trentuno con la morte...."

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Italian Army Officer and two Eritrean Buluk-Basci (Junios NCOs) ,one with Carabinieri and the other with Colonial Troops,pictured in the Abyssinian bush. Early months of 1936.

Italy-Ethiopia war 1935-1936.