Today in military history: Germany, Italy, Japan sign Tripartite Pact
On Sep. 27, 1940, Germany, Italy and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact and formed the alliance that would become known as the Axis Powers. A year earlier, Germany and Italy…
On Sep. 27, 1940, Germany, Italy and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact and formed the alliance that would become known as the Axis Powers. A year earlier, Germany and Italy…
For the 2017 Army-Navy Game, the Army’s jerseys celebrated the 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), the predecessor to…
Three years earlier Italian dictator Benito Mussolini gave the order to invade Libya and take North Africa for himself. The allies were able to take back the territories conquered by…
Everything in war is risky but depending on who’s leading an army, some gambles are better than others. Mistakes are always made, but when the biggest risks on the battlefield…
When Italy entered World War II on the Axis side, things were looking pretty good from where fascist dictator Benito Mussolini sat. He had an army of some 200,000 men,…
On July 8, 1918, Ernest Hemingway was wounded while serving on the Italian Front in World War I. Hemingway volunteered as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross when…
In the summer of 1935, most of the world had no idea that various conflicts in different regions would explode into an all-out World War. World War I was supposed…
On June 10, 1940, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini brought Italy into World War II aligning with Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini founded and led the National…
On Jan. 23, 1943, an Italian POW named Felice Benuzzi, who was being held by the British in Africa, escaped.
But for a very peculiar reason.
Once free of the wire, Benuzzi and two other prisoners who escaped with him spent the next…
As in, a literal bucket. A container that is most often used today for gardening, carrying things, even sitting when a chair can’t be found – that is the source…