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Mediterranean and North Africa · Italy vs Britain and France

Italy declares war

10 June 1940

Mussolini declared war on Britain and France from the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia, with France already collapsing. The declaration opened the Mediterranean, North African and East African theatres.

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Italian troop convoy on its way to relieve the Siege of Giarabub
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Combattenti del CLN a Milano il 26 aprile 1945.
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An Italian partisan in Florence, 14 August 1944. Senor Prigile, an Italian partisan in Florence. British troops were ordered to avoid fighting the Germans in the precincts of the city of Florence. Italian Partisans, occu
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Arrival of an Italian military convoy in Tobruch in 1941
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