Page 1.  Photos of the Italian army during WW2 and before.  These photos were acquired from Rex Trye.  He used them in preparation of his two books on the Italian army of WWII.  He received the photos from various national archives, private collections and museums in England, Germany, the U.S. and Italy.    HOMEPAGE

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Colonial use of a truck with three mounted machineguns.  The machineguns in the rear look to be Schwartzlose of Austro-Hungarian origin

Italian soldatos pushing a truck out of the North African sand.

Filling up canteens from a water barrel.  The Italian soldato, on the left, appears to have an additional talisman hanging from his dogtag.  Possibly a religious medal.

Fiat Dovuque 35 in North Africa.  WWII.