ARIETE surrounds & captures Benghazi & Mechili. WW2 newsreel

"Rommel decided to make a bid for all of Cyrenaica in a single stroke, although the only support for his Germans was two weak Italian divisions. He ordered a double envelopment, sending the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion straight along the Via Balbia toward Benghazi, while directing the 5th Panzer Regiment and the Italian Ariete Armored Division (sixty tanks) across the chord of the Cyrenaican bulge to El Mechili, just south of the "Green Mountain" of Jebel el Akdar. If the panzers continued northward, they could block the British retreat along the coast. The effect was instantaneous; the British hurriedly evacuated Benghazi and fell back in confusion."
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"The victory must have been especially sweet for the men of the Ariete Division, partly as recompense for past humiliations at British hands, and partly because it was an all-Italian triumph."
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[@ДжалалКурбанисмаилов-ъ3ю]

А еще трындят,что итальянцы воевать не умеют.

[@ClaudeMagicbox]

Oooooh....ecco.... gli abitanti di Benghazi accolgono i fratelli italiani.
Lo dico da 30 anni, il meridione dovrebbe staccarsi dall’Italia e formare una alleanza Tunisino-libica.... non é malanimo ma realismo: in auel contesto possono competere e farla da padroni, pensare che possano competere coi Tedeschi o Cinesi nell’industria oppure Olandesi e Scandinavi nei servizi finanziari e assicurativi e pura follia.

[@tetrapack.mantovano]

sì, una alleanza con uno stato poverissimo e uno in guerra civile, gran idea signore. Viva l'Italia unita!