Oui. Et le traumatisme du COVID comme contrepartie de la Première Guerre mondiale pour une société plus fragile et plus âgée.

The future members of the MIS ("Movement for the Independence of Sicily"): a strange mixture of anti-fascist intellectuals, monarchists, Sicilian landowners, and (from around 1945) even members of the Mafia.

He should be grateful that they didn't end up like the Romanovs.

Later in the day, Italian high-level bombers attacked the convoy again in the Sicilian narrow. A 100 kg bomb detonated off the port side of the destroyer HMS Firedrake, near the boiler room. The shockwave disabled her, so that she had to be towed back to Gibraltar by the destroyer HMS Eridge. 5/5🧵

Another S.79 of 283a Squadriglia, flown by Ten. Francesco "Ciccio" Di Bella, launched a torpedo, badly damaging the cruiser HMS Manchester (35 crewmen were killed and 39 wounded). The vessel was out of service for nine months. 4/5🧵 #ww2 #wwII #airwar #aviation #navalhistory #mediterranean #history

Pandolfi’s S.79 was shot down by anti-aircraft fire from the stricken destroyer, moments after it had released its torpedo. The crew of the S.79 was captured. HMS Fearless was later scuttled by a torpedo fired by the destroyer HMS Forester. 3/5🧵

Three of the S.79s were repelled by the Fulmars, but the remaining three closed on the ships, and Ten. Bruno Pandolfi (283a Squadriglia) released his weapon, which struck the destroyer HMS Fearless. Badly damaged by the resulting explosion, the vessel had 25 members of its crew killed. 2/5🧵

Se da sinistra non si prova a picchiare su questo argomento neanche in estate, l'encefalogramma è veramente piatto

...Now the roles reversed. In Spain, when Bastico wanted to do something, he would invoke the Duce's orders as a last resort against Franco; similarly, when Rommel wanted to do something, he would point out the Führer's orders against Bastico and Gambara.» (E. Canevari) 2/2🧵 #ww2 #wwII #desertwar