Changes

During the Second Battle of Alamein, the 12th Bersaglieri Regiment fought especially hard, manning the Italian 47mm and 90mm guns in defence of El Aqqaqir Ridge, destroying 70 tanks from the British 9th Armoured Brigade. Berlin Radio acknowledged that in this sector the ''"British were made to pay for their penetration with enormous losses in men andmaterial. The Italians fought till the last man."''

During the Second Battle of Alamein, the 12th Bersaglieri Regiment fought especially hard, manning the Italian 47mm and 90mm guns in defence of El Aqqaqir Ridge, destroying 70 tanks from the British 9th Armoured Brigade. Berlin Radio acknowledged that in this sector the ''"British were made to pay for their penetration with enormous losses in men andmaterial. The Italians fought till the last man."''

During [[Operation Husky]] (the Allied invasion of Sicily), the 10th and 177th Bersaglieri Regiments fiercely contested the advance of the US 15th Regimental Combat Team and 1st and 3rd Ranger Battalions. Resistance is stiff enough to require house-to-house combat. US military historian Samuel Eliot Morison acknowleged that in the American advance ''"The Italians fought manfully for Agrigento".''

During [[Operation Husky]] (the Allied invasion of Sicily), the 10th and 177th Bersaglieri Regiments fiercely contested the advance of the US 15th Regimental Combat Team and 1st and 3rd Ranger Battalions. Resistance was stiff enough to require house-to-house combat. US military historian Samuel Eliot Morison acknowleged that in the American advance ''"The Italians fought manfully for Agrigento".''

== Notes ==

== Notes ==