Italians in Libya

[italwars]

The moovie produced by Ghedaffi  and censured in Italy was not too bad but , from an historical point of view, as Carlos pointed out, the  representation of Italian metropolitan troops employed in battle is wrong ..we are talking about the so called “reconquest of Libya”, between the wars campaign, which was carried out, almost totally  , by camel mounted native troops (sahariani), very similar to the French meharistes, closely supported by planes and armored cars with sparse employment also of truck carried lybian  infantry askaris and native artillery ..the armored cars weren’t able to directly catch the very mobile mounted rebel units and the few small tanks saw, practically, no action at all.
Some historians pointed out that the gathered experience of brand new  tactics and organizations of those mixed columns with  cooperating truck carried Lybian  infantry , mounted troops, armored cars and planes, even if innovative, didn’t gave any advantage or stood as an established good practice in desert warfare for those same generals that were soundly defeated ,years later , at the beginning of western desert WW2 campaign.

[marco55]

This was a pretty good movie. I enjoyed seeing the armored cars and tanks of the time. The interwar colonial wars were quite interesting to me as it was a bridge between the old way of colonial warfare and the new.
Mark

[Golgotha]

Its a fantastic movie - reminds me of Lawrence of Arabia but not as amazing. Would love to wargame this...

[Helen]

This is my Shapeways model of the Fiat 3000 in 28mm for my Sicily project.

[carlos marighela]

Lovely work Helen!

I can't help thinking though that it needs a speech bubble coming from it saying 'Exterminate, exterminate!'  Such is the inevitable fate of all small, riveted, interwar tanks.

[Helen]

Lovely work Helen!

I can't help thinking though that it needs a speech bubble coming from it saying 'Exterminate, exterminate!'  Such is the inevitable fate of all small, riveted, interwar tanks.

Thanks. Yes, it does have some sort of resemblance. Brave tank crews in Sicily facing off the allies.

[Marine0846]

Love the tank, Helen.
Well done.
Great use of color.

[Helen]

Love the tank, Helen.
Well done.
Great use of color.

Thank you.

[Plynkes]

Thumbs up, Helen!


Nice to see this thirteen-year-old topic still has legs. 

[Helen]

Thanks Dylan. Just like us Dylan we still have our legs.