Italian Army Guastatori Destruction Group WM-22-06-2023 After Operation Compass ended in

After Operation Compass ended in early 1941

it was always used with a tripod

Contains 10 metal models

3 Metallic paints

‘People‘s Storm’) were militia recruited from amongst the old

Italian Army Guastatori Destruction Group WM-22-06-2023 After Operation Compass ended inAt the start of Italys war, the Italian Army had no assault engineering units designed to take on enemy fortifications. The performance of pioneer units in the German blitzkrieg demonstrated to the Italians the need for such units, leading to the creation of the Guastatori del Genio which began training units in late 1940. By early 1941 these specialised assault engineers were fighting in North Africa, and by mid 1942 they were also on the Eastern