Thank you. That quote is the prove that even the British soldiers didn't believe London propaganda. It's sad that today many people base their knowledge on this misconceptions.
its nice to learn about the campaigns in WW2 that are often overlooked for simply "europe and the pacific" it was called a world war for a reason. heck, not many people know this, but the axis DID have a presence in the Americas in the form of french Guyana and numerous french Caribbean islands, thankfully no battles were fought in Latin America due to it all technically belonging to vichy france, which was a neutral country de jure (but a puppet state de facto), but they did provide German subs safe harbor from allied anti-submarine campaigns up until the Free France uprisings of 1942-1943
XBLspartanx170 there was one “battle” in Canada where Free France captured an island from Vichy France. However Vichy forces surrendered without firing a shot, as most of them did not want to fight for Vichy (which was a different attitude than Vichy forces elsewhere)
Interessante notare come l'A.O.I, isolata e senza rifornimenti, abbia resistito un anno, mentre le Francia è collassata in due mesi. Interesting see how Oriental Italian Africa bucked for 1 year, while France collapsed in two months.
Vero, c'è anche da considerare che il territorio quasi completamente piatto della Francia è difficile da difendere, e che i Francesi dovettero fronteggiare il blitzkrieg con tattiche che risalivano alla Prima Guerra Mondiale. Ma sono d'accordo sul fatto che, considerando in che condizioni combattevano in Africa Orientale, i soldati Italiani abbiano resistito più che tenacemente.
Orso Bartholomew Una domanda ma gli italiani in un primo momento non avevano occupato anche la Somalia Francese e parte del Kenya Britannico? Forse mi sbaglio ma a me sembra va così.
L'avanzata in Kenya è mostrata nel video, per quanto riguarda la Somalia Francese da quanto ricordo non venne mai occupata (infatti rimase sotto il controllo di Vichy anche dopo la caduta dall'A.O.I).
***** Thank you, I have used many different source for this. On Wikipedia there was little information and a lot of contradictions between the English and Italian version of the site.
@Orso Bartholomew I have a couple of questions what would occur if the allies failed the invasion of Sicily during 1943 and another scenario is what if Mussolini was assassinated during the 1930s what would be the case?
+Kevin Spindel A failure of the invasion of Sicily is highly improbable, the Italian fleet had no more fuel to contrast the Allied navies in the Mediterranean. And a lot of material and men had been lost in Africa. Mussolini was at the peak of his popularity in the 30s both in Italy and in the rest of the world. I don't know if his dead would have meant the end of Fascism. Possibly another leading figure of the Fascist Party would have replaced him.
+joey8062 No one in the Navy was happy about the surrender, but they decided to follow the King's order anyway since they were loyal to the monarchy, and that was the only way to save it. Admiral Bergamini (the one leading the Italian fleet to Malta) was the same man who proposed to launch all the fleet in a last suicide attack against the British-American fleet in 1943, so he was not exactly a coward. Some ships that couldn't leave their ports fired to the last bullet on the German troops, some crews scuttled their ships to avoid the capture. One of the most successful submarine ace of the war, Carlo Fecia di Cossato, even committed suicide shortly after the armistice because he couldn't accept that situation. The British knew that they had not surrendered due to cowardice, just look at this video, a lot of times they were so impressed by how the Italians fought that they were allowed to surrender with full military honors.
I don´t know why, but I am sorry for the Italians losing in East Africa. They were doing quite well in the beginning. I guess that the East Africa was the only one battlefield in WWII where the Italians were doing the most well, but since they stopped all the major operations and the Duke of Aosta gave order to surrender, Italians were defeated. I guess it was a mistake for them to stop the operations and surrender, was not it?
The British controlled both the Suez canal and Gibraltar, so the Italians couldn’t get supplies to East Africa. Plus their Army consisted mostly of infantry and they had no way of moving their troops across long distances. That’s why they had to stop their advance after capturing Somaliland. At the time of their surrender most or their supplies were already gone (including water and food), they really couldn’t have resisted any longer.
U guys dont know the war which started 1887 till 1926 until british use war plane first time in history against somalia red more if u dont know ahmed gurey and the mad mullah
Mahamed Abdirhman khatumo warriors? I don't know what you mean by that but yes I believe in the blue flag and I believe Somaliland is the state of Somalia 🇸🇴
