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From: smpod@saturn.lerc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Italian Tanks and Japanese Tanks
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.051427.5157@amd.com>
Date: 24 Apr 91 19:00:59 GMT
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From: smpod@saturn.lerc.nasa.gov


	[Please don't use alternative quotemarks instead of ">",
	 it makes extra work for me.  Thanks.  --CDR]

rblack@smcnet.smc.edu (Russ Black, Media Center) writes...
>Italian armour suffered much the same fate.  As a matter of fact, the
>army as a whole suffered from such a fate.  

The Italian artillery was comparatively excellent and performed very
well alongside the Afrika Korp.

>The only thing they has that was execellent and had
>sufficent replacement was their air force.

The Italian navy ships were superb designs but led by mediocre commanders
and/or insufficiently protected by the Axis airforces.