Andrea Santangelo

Colleziono comitati scientifici.

[Andrea Santangelo @Svagaia]

Ho appena scoperto cosa voglio fare da grande: il vincitore del Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing https://t.co/8mnn8Ml6iM

[Italian Military Archives @ITM_archives]

Was an Italian invasion of Malta possible in 1940? In this video I analysed the issue in depth https://t.co/WiFmhBZzqB

[Lorenzo Ponzianelli @Ponzietto]

@Svagaia @andreadortenzio

[milanoArte.net @milanoarte]

#OTD 10th of July 1557 in Saint-Quentin, now France but at the time contested between the Hapsburg Flanders and the Kingdom of France, Duke Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy lead the Imperial army to a decisive victory. The portrait by Giacomo Vighi is at @MuseiRealiTo Continue 1)

[Andrea Santangelo @Svagaia]

@alfo_lanzieri I win

[Andrea Santangelo @Svagaia]

Tre giorni di una fantastica e sempre più spettacolare La Montegridolfo Liberata. Grazie a tutti per la splendida riuscita

[Andrea Santangelo @Svagaia]

@QueenofSorrow75 sono demodé

[Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine @militaryhistori]

Danube levels so low that WWII relics surface in Budapest; a bike and two soldiers exhumed. https://t.co/hEMtLBhGAN

[jacopo giliberto @jacopogiliberto]

il volo su vienna, i volantini tricolori sfarfallano su santo stefano.

era un 9 agosto come oggi, ma del 1918 quando 8 biplani, su uno dei quali gabriele d'annunzio, riuscirono a volare fino alla capitale nemica e invece di bombe gettarono 300mila volantini.

[📜Echoes of Empire📜 @EchoesofEmpire_]

A Dead U.S. soldier is found alongside a trail near Fort Thomas, Arizona, after an attack by Apache warriors, 1882

[Italian Military Archives @ITM_archives]

Naval clashes in the Black sea? Well, it happened in #ww2 and the Italian Navy participated too
https://t.co/7rBSdUlPRp

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

August 1944
A big line up of Sherman M4A2 tanks with the French 12e Regiment De Chasseurs d’Afrique, part of the 2e Division Blindée, commanded by General Philippe LeClerc, taken August of 1944, nearby Vesly, Normandy, France.

The first Sherman, MAURIENNE, 12e RCA, 2e Escadron
was destroyed at Gros-Rederching (Moselle) on January 4th 1945,
the second one, TARENTAISE, at Rouessé-Fontaine (Sarthe) on August 12th 1944. The tank was hit several times and caught fire. The crew managed to evacuate, Chief Marshal of Logis Bizard, was wounded.

The French 2nd Armored Division (French: 2e Division Blindée, 2e DB), fought during the final phases of World War II in the Western Front. The division was formed around a core of units that had fought in the North African campaign, and re-organized into a light armored division in 1943. The division embarked in April 1944 and shipped to various ports in Britain.

On 29 July 1944, bound for France, the division embarked at Southampton. During combat in 1944, the division liberated Paris, defeated a Panzer brigade during the armored clashes in Lorraine, forced the Saverne Gap and liberated Strasbourg.
After taking part in the Battle of the Colmar Pocket, the division was moved west and assaulted the German-held Atlantic port of Royan, before recrossing France in April 1945 and participating in the final fighting in southern Germany, even going into Hitler's "Eagle's Nest as one of the first units"

Colour: Colourised PIECE of JAKE

(Photo source - US Army Signal Corps)

[Iveser Venezia @IveserVenezia]

8 agosto 1991
20.000 albanesi arrivano al porto di Bari
#Vlora

[ZeroZen @0zen_]

Vorrei dire a @Svagaia di munirsi di birra e salire sul tavolo 🚀

[Iveser Venezia @IveserVenezia]

7 agosto 1420
Brunelleschi inizia la costruzione della cupola di Santa Maria del Fiore

[Daily Turkic @DailyTurkic]

In 1970, Romania just took 10,000 real soldiers, dressed them as Ottomans, and filmed the largest army march ever put on screen.

Still more impressive than most modern CGI movies.

[JordanGeo @Valeria__79]

@Svagaia Seneca la sapeva lunga😎😁
... E anche Celso:

[Andrea Santangelo @Svagaia]

OMNIS AESTAS HOMINIBVS CALDISSIMA SEMPER VIDETVR (Seneca)
Sto' cazzo di caldo persistente doveva farmi litigare pure con uno dei mie miti filosofici...

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

Otto Carius destroyed something like 150 enemy tanks in the war, and one of his most famous days was July 22, 1944, when he and a single other Tiger knocked out 17 Soviet heavy tanks in a matter of minutes at a village called Malinava. He weighed barely 120 pounds, had been rejected at first for being too skinny, and became one of the deadliest tank commanders who ever lived.

Carius was a slight, unassuming young man who had to fight just to get into the panzer arm, turned down initially because recruiters thought he was too small and frail. He started the war as a loader in the cramped hull of a tank, worked his way up, and by 1944 he was commanding Tiger tanks with the 502nd Heavy Tank Battalion on the Eastern Front, in the brutal defensive fighting as the German line was driven back through the Baltic.

The Tiger was the reason a handful of men could do what he did. It had thick frontal armor that Soviet guns struggled to penetrate at range, and a long, superbly accurate 88 millimeter gun that could kill an enemy tank far beyond the distance at which it could hit back. Carius mastered the art of using that advantage, choosing his ground, picking off the lead and rear vehicles of a column to trap the rest, and working the kills methodically.

At Malinava in July 1944 he showed exactly what that looked like. A strong force of Soviet heavy tanks, including the big new Josef Stalin tanks, was advancing, and Carius took just two Tigers forward to meet them. In a short, sharp ambush, the two Tigers destroyed 17 Soviet tanks and shattered the attack, Carius picking them apart before they could react. It was the kind of lopsided action the Tiger and a cool commander could produce, and it helped stabilize a dangerous stretch of the front.

He was badly wounded more than once, shot up so severely at one point that he nearly died, and he became the youngest man to receive the Oak Leaves to his Knight's Cross. He survived the war, and then did something wonderfully ordinary with the rest of his life. He studied pharmacy, opened a chemist's shop in a small German town, and named it the Tiger Apotheke, the Tiger Pharmacy, after the tank he had fought in. He ran that pharmacy for decades, wrote a memoir called Tigers in the Mud, and lived to 92. One of the great tank aces of the war, who spent his old age filling prescriptions behind a counter.

[Aristocratic Fury @LandsknechtPike]

The movie Profession of Arms (2001) using the historically accurate standard of Charles V with inscription "noch weiter" (German translation of "plus ultra", still further) was a nice historic detail.

Incredible Imperial aesthetics and motto.

[Andrea Santangelo @Svagaia]

@martinoloiacono e sarà così per gli anni a venire.