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Offline Torenico

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Bir el Gobi and late War RSI Battles.
« on: 02-02-2010, 05:02:01 »
Anyone knows anything about, Bir el Gobi, US vs Italy Tunisia battles and a Late War (Italy) battle between the US 92nd inf against the RSI 4th Alpine "Monte Rosa".

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On 26 December 1944, several sizeable RSI military units, including elements of the 4th Italian "Monte Rosa" Alpine Division and the 3rd Italian "San Marco" Marine Division, participated in Operation Winter Storm. This was a combined German and Italian offensive against the 92nd Infantry Division. The battle was fought in the Apennines. While limited in scale, this was a successful offensive and the RSI units did their part.

I need all the info i can get for any of these battles.
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Re: Bir el Gobi and late War RSI Battles.
« Reply #1 on: 03-02-2010, 17:02:50 »
The RSI units were mostly German equipped and had a lot of the obsolete/unpopular G41 rifles.
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Re: Bir el Gobi and late War RSI Battles.
« Reply #2 on: 03-02-2010, 21:02:19 »
Yes, that and normal italian stuff.

Guys, i need to know what happend with the RSI in 1944-1945, and what engagements they had with the Allies.


Is everyone here lovin' the Germans and not the Italians?
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Re: Bir el Gobi and late War RSI Battles.
« Reply #3 on: 03-02-2010, 21:02:15 »
IIRC, the majority of the RSI simply engaged in anti-partisan work, only rarely seeing combat against allied troops such as the Operation Winter Storm that you note.

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This book might be helpful for yah.
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Re: Bir el Gobi and late War RSI Battles.
« Reply #4 on: 03-02-2010, 21:02:22 »
Thanks.  Yeah most of their units fought nothing but Partisans. 

A map like Operation Winter Storm would be, good for FH2 I guess. But if the battle was fought on Snow, i will have to wait till BotB is out, if so, i'd go for El Gobi.

I even have in mind, dedicating all my Mapping and Modelling efforts on the Italians :)
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