The East African campaign was a military campaign fought in East Africa during the Second World War by the Allies of World War II, mainly from the British Empire, against Italy and its colony of Itali
South African soldiers with a captured Italian flag, 1941
Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 formation
Indian soldiers at a shore post in Berbera, August 1940.
Prince Amedeo Duke of Aosta, Commander in Chief of Italian military forces in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland
Italian East Africa
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Italian East Africa was a colonial administrative entity of the Kingdom of Italy in the Horn of Africa that existed from 1936 to 1941. It was proclaimed by Benito Mussolini on 1 June 1936, following t
Mussolini and the fascist paramilitary Blackshirts' March on Rome in October 1922. Marshal De Bono, standing left of Mussolini, commanded Italian forces during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.
The Abyssinian leaders Ras Seyoum Mengesha, Ras Getachew Abate and Ras Kebede Gebre received in Rome by Benito Mussolini on 6 February 1937
Mussolini Avenue in Asmara, 1938
Asmara station on the Eritrean Railway in 1938, with passengers boarding a Littorina