Description: Tropical pith helmet - 128th CCNN Blackshirts Assault Legion (Vercelli) - 1st February Division - nominative.Conditions as per photo (excellent). The helmet is enriched by the nominative silver medal awarded to the owner in memory of his participation in the East African campaign in the ranks of the 128th Legion and a lucky charm pendant depicting a profile of an Ethiopian woman or girl (evidently belonging to the same owner). "The 28th Blackshirt Assault Legion "Giovanni RANDACCIO" was based in Vercelli, in the first territorial zone of the MVSN which corresponded to Piedmont. It included three cohorts, in addition to those detached to Cigliano and Biella. Mobilized in 1935, the Legion, like most of those employed in East Africa, added the number 100 to its numbering becoming the 128th Blackshirt Legion, composed of its own CXXVIII battalion and the CXXIX of Pallanza. Remobilized in 1939 as the 28th, it was assigned to the "Cagliari" infantry division before being transferred to Albania at the beginning of 1941 and then entered the "Diamanti" grouping which, in April, took part in the operations against Yugoslavia. Reduced to only the XXVIII battalion in the spring of 1941, the Legion was deployed in Greece with occupation duties until the surrender in September 1943."
Price: 450 USD
Location: Firenze
End Time: 2024-12-01T01:09:29.000Z
Shipping Cost: 40 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Conflict: WW II (1939-45)
Original/Reproduction: Original
Theme: Militaria
Country/Region of Manufacture: Italy
