Bolt Action - Italian Alpini Mountain Troops Great Britain A regular sight on late

A regular sight on late war battlefields

all clad in warm oversuits

The Soviet Naval Brigades were no exception

whether fired from its tripod

With the fall of France

Bolt Action - Italian Alpini Mountain Troops Great Britain A regular sight on lateKnown as Le Penne Nere (the black feathers), after the distinctive raven feather in their headgear, the Alpini are the Italian Armys elite specialists in mountain warfare. Created by Royal decree no. 1056 in 1872, they are the oldest mountain specialists in the world. In 1935, the Italian fascist government under Mussolini reorganised the Alpini into six divisions and sent three of them to fight on the Eastern Front alongside the Germans against the