Milan y Astray

« The 'Giovani Fascisti' Division...tasked to defend the small hill known as Bir el Gobi, they fought off repeated attacks by the 11th Indian Brigade and British 7th Armoured Division during the first week of December 1941. Despite overwhelming odds, they inflicted massive casualties on the Allies and held their ground despite severe hunger and thirst. »

(John Gooch. Decisive campaigns of the Second World War. Chapter: The North African Campaign.)


The unfortunate license of wartime propaganda allowed the British Press to represent the Italians almost as comic warriors; but except for the German parachute division in Italy and the Japanese in Burma no enemy with whom the British and Indian troops were matched put up a finer fight than those Savoia battalions at Cheren.

(Eastern Epic, Compton Mackenzie)


Battle of Bir el Gobi and history of Giovani Fascisti division
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3GLlKJ2t7c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVPrL9Uk9kg