italian collars

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Grey-green wartime visor for a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal Carabineers and a button for officers:

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The same for the black uniform:

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Royal Carabineer in full dress uniform with the traditional headdress, so-called the lucerna, still in use today. Officers still wear a Navy-like felucca with a cascade of red and blue feathers:

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Wartime shot. The lucerna is covered with a gray-green sheet:

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Wartime Royal Navy sea-landing infantry San Marco:

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Wartime Grenadier:

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Some random collar badges:

Top Right- Badge looks like the 35° Reggimento Fanteria Motorizzata Pistoia; my father's regiment.
The blue was added after they were motorized, which actually means that the regiment received a few trucks.

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Hallo iac

You're right

The Pistoia division is sometimes described as a motorized infantry division. More properly it was restructured as a North Africa (AS) type transportable infantry division in October 1941 but was sent to the African front only from September 1942 and was finally destroyed, after very bitter fighting, on May 13, 1943. So these collar patches were adopted at the time of transformation for a relatively short period of time and are therefore very rare.

Best regards

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Colonel Baudoin, one of the most important fathers of the italian paratroopers. Under his triennial direction, the Tarquinia school patented 10,728 paratroopers, carried out 56,170 training launches and 5,871 experimental launches, 5,134 launches of war material. He formed the Folgore Division and started to form the second, the Nembo, a battalion of paratroopers swimmers from the Rgt S. Marco, two battalions of the Royal Air Force: the 1st assault regiment and the 2nd ADRA (Assault Destroyers); the 10th Assault Regiment; a battalion of Carabineers paratroopers; some groups of personnel, specially trained to launch behind enemy lines for military information service operations:

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Cacciatore di Albania (Hunter of Albania):

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Field Artillery Company Officer metal plain shoulder straps:

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Field Artillery 2nd lieutenant metal epaulettes with fringes for ceremonial dress:

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Infantry Company Officer metal plain shoulder straps:

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Mantova Infantry plastic collar patch of the Republic of Italy:

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WW2 divisional artillery: