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6 days ago · May 25, 2024. The year was 1944, and the tide of World War II was turning against Nazi Germany. As Allied forces advanced up the Italian peninsula, the retreating Germans made a desperate last stand, fortifying the so-called Gothic Line in the country‘s north.
4 days ago · Three U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons, assigned to the 555th Fighter Squadron, perform a flyover during the 80th anniversary World War II Memorial ceremony in Florence, Italy, May 27, 2024 ...
3 days ago · Italian German annexed by Bulgaria. The Italian zone was taken over by the Germans in September 1943. On 28 October 1940, Italy started the Greco-Italian War by launching an invasion of the Kingdom of Greece from Albania. In part, the Italians attacked Greece because of the growing influence of Germany in the Balkans.
May 12, 2024 · The Ponte Vecchio was the only bridge in Florence that wasn’t destroyed during World War II, supposedly by order of Hitler himself. The stamp commemorates Florence Nightingale on the 200th anniversary of her birth in 1820.
May 23, 2024 · During World War II the city experienced a year-long German occupation (1943–1944) being part of the Italian Social Republic.
May 19, 2024 · Ponte Vecchio, the famous bridge over the Arno river. The most striking and oldest bridge in Florence Italy still in existence is the Ponte Vecchio, literally: the old bridge. The Ponte Vecchio was designed by a student of Giotto, Taddeo Gaddi and was finished in 1345.
May 3, 2024 · Left: His face expressionless, Mussolini rides in a black convertible with Hitler in Florence, Italy, May 9, 1938. City bells rang and Florentians waving banners bearing swastikas cheered the luminaries. Flying in tight formations above their twenty-car motorcade were airplanes of the Italian air force.
