Damian Valle

If you build a sand castle with the kids, you are a great dad. If you explain to them the advantages of the Italian trace, you are just weird...
#MilitaryArchitecture #MilHis

#OTD in 1944, 59 Italian prisoners were killed by Nazi troops in retaliation for a partisan attack days earlier. S. Engel, the Nazi commander, never paid for the Turchino Massacre, as all extradition attempts were blocked. #WarInItaly #Partigiani

International Workers' Day!
Italians celebrating the "Festa dei Lavoratori" in 1946. Notice the sign on the left that says, "Give jobs to our veterans." Between 1945 and 1947, more than a million Italian POWs returned to a country already facing 2 million unemployed.

Bunker created to defend Fuerteventura against a possible Allied invasion (Operation Pilgrim - Puma, 1941), now repurposed as viewpoint

Buon Natale - Merry Christmas.
1911-12 Postcard depicting Bersaglieri in Libia during the Italo-Turkish War

I wish you a succulent Christmas meal 😜

The entrance to the Archivio di Stato may not look as cool as the National Archives but the surroundings and the interior are breathtaking...no swans though 🦢
#RegioEsercito

#MuleMonday Refugees escaping the Fascist advance towards Málaga. 6-7 Feb 1937. A naval bombardment killed 3-5k civilians. From the book "The crime on the road Málaga-Almeria" by Dr Norman Bethune, who went to Spain to create a blood transfusion unit to aid the Republican soldiers. #SCW

Hi @navalairhistory.com difficult to tell more than the already discussed without having all the info. It can be the Tª difference. In some cases some metabolic or neuro diseases show something similar. If worried, have a chat with your vet, it is worth the peace of mind.

#MuleMonday

#MuleMonday I was lucky enough to see some mules at work in the rugged hills of southern Spain over the weekend.

Would you like to know more about the Spanish Republicans who helped liberate Paris? Are you curious about their odyssey from the African deserts to the shores of France? Join us tomorrow at 19:00 (GMT)!
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Soldiers of the International Brigades and their horses during the Spanish Civil War. 📷 by Elkan Vera. #WarHorseWednesday IWM: HU 71523

The death of Franco was announced #OTD in 1975. I cannot help but think of those #ContinuingtheFight against fascism & the Spanish Ex-Servicemen’s Association who only a month prior held a silent march down #Whitehall & layed a wreath at the #Cenotaph. I stood at that spot today.

A colour photo of a man in khaki uniform holding a carrier pigeon in his hands. Behind him a large vehicle and a small wire enclosure are seen

Today in 1944, a British soldier serving with the Eighth Army carrier pigeon service in Italy removes a message from a pigeon at a mobile loft. An original wartime colour image by Captain Alfred Tanner.

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A portrait photo of a young woman with dark hair - An Italian Jewish woman, Frida Misul.

3 November 1919 | An Italian Jewish woman, Frida Misul, was born in Livorno. A Singer.

In Auschwitz from 16 May 1944.
No. A-5483
She was liberated in Theresienstadt.
She passed away in 1992.

🚨Reminder🚨

The Western Front Association’s PhD Grant Scheme is open for 2024!

Grants of up to £2,000 for those researching The Great War as part of their PhD.

As long as the thesis has a significant First World War element we are interested.
NOTHING IS OFF LIMITS!

#fwwhist

That will not discourage anyone, you know? 😆
I love the Italian overrepresentation

Caporetto? Raid on Pola? 😜

#OTD in 1944, partisan and medical student Giovanni Palmieri was executed by SS troops. After 3 days of combats, instead of retreating, he stayed behind to look after the wounded partisans. He was captured and kept alive so he could treat the wounded SS, and then they killed him. #WarInItaly

Today, an unexpected gift from a tutee reminded me how small gestures can have the deepest impact. Grateful for the opportunity to make a difference
#VeterinaryEducation #VetEd
#ManyTanks

I seldomly wear cufflinks but when I do...#Spitfire

So it begins: #InVeST24!!
International Veterinary Simulation in Teaching Congress

Yesterday, I received a book I ordered online. It turns out it belonged to one of my favorite authors, Richard Lamb. I've bought his book War in Italy three times—once for myself and twice for friends. It might be silly, but I feel like I won some sort of (nerdy) lottery. #MilHis

🧵2/2 officer to infiltrate garrisons as a beggar or farmer. One day, after an ambush the Fascist declared his death, but he survived. Few days later he walked into a café full of surprised Fascist, drank his coffee and then defaced the picture of Mussolini before escaping RIP

#OTD in 1944 the Italian partisan Silvio Corbari was executed by nazi-fascist troops. Corbari was famous for his twisted sense of humour: in one occasion he distracted the attention of the local garrison using a bomb made of pasta and beans and he used to dress up as an ... 🧵1/2

It is not every day that I get to see homing pigeons.
The baskets are still very similar to those used by loftmen during #WW1 and #WW2. During #WW2 alone the British Army used more than 250k pigeons and 32 received the Dikin Medal (aka the Victoria Cross for Animals).

28.07.41 Mussolini inspects the troops of the 1st Legion of the Camice Nere in Mantova before their departure to the Russian Front. Very few will see Italy again. #WW2