Italy: Post WWll - Present

[MelaraClubPrez]

This is a thread for Italian deployments and conflicts covering (see topic title) the period after WWII to the present.

Everything from tactical nukes to Check Point Pasta can be found here.

I think this'll be a good place for the CIA reading room link.

 

[jwsleser]

Excellent!

 

[MelaraClubPrez]

Link to the CIA reading room:
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/search/site/Breda

In the late forties Italian WWII equipment( mostly Breda) shows up in Albania & Yugoslavia. Some CV.3s are re-equipped with Russian Machine guns.

 

[MelaraClubPrez]

More from Breda and Egypt:

 

[MelaraClubPrez]

Italy in Lebanon. Pic is from someone's imgur public account. "Peacemaker", I believe is his/her name.

There's some youtube video and other pictures from Italy's extensive service in Lebanon. I've even come across some old videos from the 80s
I'll post them within this post as I come across them depending on how long it takes to find them again.

Italy arriving in Lebanon. Video is from 2015:

Same place in 1983:

 

[MelaraClubPrez]

Albanian Navy using Breda double-barrel machine gun, dated June 24, 1949

 

[MelaraClubPrez]

Youtube video about checkpoint Pasta:

Blog covering the same operation:
http://nicolatogni.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html
Some more pics:
http://www.raffaeleciriello.com/site/pw/39pasta.html

 

[MelaraClubPrez]

Another youtube video:
Lebanon dated 17th Mar. 1983

There's some small arms and vehicles featured in the video.

 

[MelaraClubPrez]

Report about the Melera Club from CIA reading room:

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP83B00851R000200030002-0.pdf

Dated 1983