Italian tankette in Irak

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and two postcards od a CV33 tanks and not only.....

Lt. Col. Amedeo Pederzini the May 30, 1936 commands all Tanks Unitss located in Somalia, 143 tanks L 3, 21 armored cars Lancia-Ansaldo 1ZM, 10 armored cars FIAT 611, 286 vehicles ordered in etc etc ....

Here a postcard sent to him by a friend in August 1942 when he was commander of the 1st Tank Regiment

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two of his portraits

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Mufasa hello...more great items ..i love the enamel badge for the Centaur div..one of my favourite badges...picked up this little gem on my hols ...cost me only £10......Tankette next i think..!...

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although there is an M13 instead of a CV 33/35, this is a very nice postcard (by Boccasile) ... sent one month before the other, yet Colonel Always of the 1st Tank Regiment, by his subordinate near the Egypt border: in July 4, 1942 the Military Post 210 was placed near El Alamein..

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General Pederzini was killed after the war (June 1945) inexplicably after the Armistice He had not adhered to the Salo Republic of Mussoilini) by communists partisans in Emilia.....

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Mufasa hello...more great items ..i love the enamel badge for the Centaur div..one of my favourite badges...picked up this little gem on my hols ...cost me only £10......Tankette next i think..!...

13/40! As the postcard of Boccasile!!!



Ciao Oriano

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although there is an M13 instead of a CV 33/35, this is a very nice postcard (by Boccasile) ... sent one month before the other, yet Colonel Always of the 1st Tank Regiment, by his subordinate near the Egypt border: in July 4, 1942 the Military Post 210 was placed near El Alamein..

This is a M11, not a M13.

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This is a M11, not a M13.

correct kanister : a medium tank Fiat-Ansaldo M11/39 (I was more focused on the translation that the tank acronym)

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and I'm going back to some military mail near the Egyptian border before the Wavell counteroffensive of the end of 1940

a CV35 near Bardia - Sollum and a map which indicates the place of the 62 Div. Marmarica where he was deployed LXII Light Tank Battalion from September to december 1940

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the front of the postcard : the Arch of Fileni

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and back the stamp of the LXII Light Tank Battalion and the PM 262 of the Cyrene Division in Egypt in 1940

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and another two military mail dated end of 1940 at the beginning of Operation Compass, for the first (and only) confrontation between CV 35 tank and British Armoured force in North Africa, in Nezuret Ghirba (against Rolls Royce armoured cars) near Ridotta Capuzzo (Fort Capuzzo) the 16 June 194th, just six days after the entry of the Italy into the war.....

Ridotta Capuzzo that between 1940 and 1942 change hands many times

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and in December 1940 during the British offensive the 61 Division Sirte
is deployed in defense of the roads between the Ridotta Capuzzo and Ain el-Gazala ...
The tank battalion of the division is the 61 Light Tank Battalion and its commander was Lt. Col. Sbrocchi that here he writes to his wife

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and in all two the letters Lt. Col. Sbrocchi asks his wife to warn the wife of Trivioli that all is well (Col. Antonio Trivioli , seeprevious post, fall in February 1941 in Maraua)

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Mufasa...here's a pic of one of those Rolls Royce armoured cars that battled the Italian Tankettes near to Fort Capuzzo that you spoke about....cheers ..