#ww1fitness. 💪🤣
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Some 250-bullet ammunition belts for the Austro-Hungarian #Schwarzlose machine gun captured by the #Alpini
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exhibition of toys for war orphans at Jolanda Hospital in Rome. After the ban on imports from Germany due to the war, the art of toys in Italy was encouraged in various places with female labor, but also among the sick and prisoners.
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distilleries united cognac, Milan.
Italian advertising poster with an Alpino.
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chicken farm in the Austro-Hungarian rear
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on guard against the enemy!
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German units of the Bavarian #Alpenkorps on the #ww1Dolomitifront. They were formations used in October 1915 to assist the Austro-Hungarian defences. They provided support and tactical advice, but never intervened in combat as Italy and Germany did not declare war until 1916
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silhouette of an Alpino with his mule.
Pasubio, 1916.
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Animal-drawn decauville railway for supplies in France used by Italian troops, 1918.
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@DVM_vet @militaryhistory
another famous war invalid was Carlo Delcroix who lost his sight and his arms following the clearance of the shooting range in 1917 while training the Alpine soldiers. He subsequently gave 35 propaganda speeches throughout Italy and after the war the Fascist regime used it further. After the fall of the regime, his prostheses were seized as objects deriving from fascism (!) and he died in Rome in 1977
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unkempt in war
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M.A.S., Memento Audere Semper, 1918.
Motto by Gabriele #D'Annunzio.
Beware of imitations or fake.
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evacuation of war remnants for the inhabited areas after the armistice on the #ww1Italianfront. Piles of Austrian hand grenades collected in Italian cartridge cases in a Veneto village, 1918
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stack of Italian 75mm shells. Most of it was brought back to the rear for reloading or to the foundry to recover the precious brass. Sometimes, however, a small part ended up in the hands of skilled chiselling soldiers who transformed them into war souvenirs or #ww1trenchart
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#Alpino "The devil of the Tofane", Angelo Schiocchet. So nicknamed by the Austrians due to his precision and cunning at hitting opponents
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our Heroes! drawing treated by the newspaper "Tyroler Soldaten Zeitung" that recalls the deeds of the brave soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian army
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@PikeGrey1418 this is much more difficult, especially since you don't know where he went after the shot🤣
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when I find lead balls of shrapnel I think about of relationships described in the book "Surgical Hospital of the City of Milan" which underlines danger of these bullets as they remain in human body dragging dirt and other foreign bodies. Gangrene could be deadly
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last war bulletin of Italian supreme command: informs that Italian troops are at Brenner; lists provisional numbers of war spoils from October 24 to November 4, 1918 and finally announces that following #ww1armistice with Germany, war operations on all fronts are suspended at 11 am.
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page of the daily war diary of the Italian X Army Corps in which the pearl of the shooting of a soldier and the various movements of troops. The Bavarians left the Brenner without shooting.
No said about the end or the war
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