Chronology of World War II

Sunday, March 5

Italian Troops of the X MAS


Italian Troops of the <i>X MAS</i>
Rome, Italy, March 1944. Italian troops of the X MAS (belonging to the RSI Navy, and fighting as allies of the Germans) standing in viale Carso near piazza Bainsizza ), inspected by General der Luftwaffe Kurt Mälzer around the time this unit was deployed to counter the Allied beachhead at Anzio, Nettuno, south of Rome.