Three, the U.S. bombing of Sardinia in front of the two small islands, on which more than 10,000 Italians were stationed, but in the end, the Allied bombing total *** blew up more than 40 Italians, Italy accepted the U.S. pilot persuasion to surrender.
Four, the pre-war period in North Africa, an Italian fort hit the white flag after the British hit a few pikes of bullets, and the Italian commander said to the British commander in a serious manner, "We have finished the last bullet." By this time the fort was littered with Italian-made ordnance around him .
Fifth, in Yugoslavia, a German officer captured by the partisans asked with great surprise, "Where did you get that anti-tank gun?" When the partisans told him they had captured it from their allies, the Italians, he lamented, "Alas! Those lovely Italians."
Sixth, the North African campaign, the British tanks to Italy's anti-tank gun positions, the number is not large, the charge began, the Italians opened fire to return fire, just fired for two or three minutes, suddenly ceased to resist, raised the white flag, when the British asked why, the Italians justified, "Because our ammunition boxes do not have a crowbar to open, so we were forced to surrender."
VII. On June 30, 1940, Field Marshal Balbo, the Italian governor in Libya, was shot down over Tobruk by Italy's own anti-aircraft artillery. In an attempt to cover up this tragic and unfortunate event, the Italians announced that the Marshal had been killed in an air battle with the British. Marshal Graziani became his successor. This was probably the most brilliant battle of World War II for Italian air defense forces, rivaling the American hunt for Yamamoto Isoroku. By the way, Balbo was the highest ranked serviceman to be mistakenly wounded in WWII. Eight, in North Africa, a 5,000-man Italian army was disarmed on the spot after running into a roadblock set up by a company of British troops. The British officer asked the tanker over the radio how many prisoners he had taken and was answered with 1 acre of officers and 9 acres of enlisted men. Because there were so many prisoners, the British army was too late to build a POW camp, so they had to ask the quartermaster to send raw materials to the Italian POWs and let them build their own POW camps to lock themselves up.
9. A German officer found two British troops pinning down almost a company of Italian POWs, and in an attempt to free them, he fired at the British - resulting in the Italians finally running, but towards the British position.
X. At the Siege of Topoluk, Rommel toured the position early in the morning and found an elite Italian musketry battalion's defense area empty as a field, with only a patch of chicken feathers.