MEN OF WAR (PC): Elite Italian "Ariete" Division - Last Stand at El Alamein 1942 скачать в хорошем качестве

MEN OF WAR (PC): Elite Italian "Ariete" Division - Last Stand at El Alamein 1942

The "Ariete" Armoured Division was an armoured division of the Italian Army during World War II. It was formed in 1939 as the second armoured division in the Italian Army after the 131 Armoured Division Centauro. The division fought in the North African Campaign until being destroyed during the Second Battle of El Alamein. (The Ariete Armoured Division hero Second Lieutenant Luigi Arbib Pascucci led the remaining tanks in a counterattack against the advancing British armour at Fuka, allowing the German Afrika Korps to escape. Luigi was found dead in his burned-out tank after the counterattack, with the rest of the Ariete Division tanks destroyed. His sacrifice earned him the Gold Medal of Military Valor, Italy's highest military award.) During the Second Battle of El Alamein the "Ariete" sacrificed its tanks in the attempt to counter the Allied offensive and cover the withdrawal of the German army. On 4 November at about 15:30, the few surviving tanks, surrounded by an overwhelmingly superior enemy, broadcast their last message. "Enemy tanks broke through South of Ariete Division. Ariete thus surrounded, located 5 kilometers north east of Bir-el-Abd. Ariete tanks keep on fighting!" Then they were destroyed to the last tank. On 6 November 1942, the Germans acknowledged that in the sector allotted to the Ariete " the British were made to pay for their penetration with enormous losses in men and material. The Italians fought to the last man. THESE ARE ITALIAN SKINS WERE OBTAINED FROM A MOD WHICH CAN BE FOUND HERE: http://www.filefront.com/17756813/Ita... http://rapidshare.com/files/440972105... http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthre... MOD creators: Chato59, Guerrito, Dilust, Avgvstvs, [A][GIO]-Max[/quote] XXI RAPAX Britannicus a.k.a [A][GIO]-Max