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Free Belgian-Congolese Dispatch rider at the Battle of Saio during the Allied liberation of East Africa from Italian control (1941)
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Free Belgian-Congolese Dispatch rider at the Battle of Saio during the Allied liberation of East Africa from Italian control (1941)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 5 days ago
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East African troops from a Nyasaland Regiment, displaying the Imperial Japanese flag during the Burma campaign (c. 1945)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 6 days ago
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British motor transport crossing the pontoon bridge over the Juba river in former Italian Somaliland (11-04-1941)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 9 days ago
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The remains of charred victims of a colonial reprisal (due to an assassination attempt of an Italian Viceroy by two locals) in Italian East Africa, burned to conceal the massacre of the 19,000 locals from the public. No perpetrator was brought to justice. (1937)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 10 days ago
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The remains of victims of a colonial reprisal in Italian East Africa after an assassination attempt on an Italian Viceroy by two locals opposed to segregation laws, around 19,000 civilians would be murdered in three days, no perpetrator was brought to justice. (1937)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 10 days ago
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Episcopal vestments in Roman Egypt during the 6th century AD, in the contemporary wall painting of the Saints Damian and Cosmas.

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 13 days ago
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A large collection of captured Italian ammunition by Allied forces at the former Italian-held port city of Kismayo. (East African Campaign, 1941)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 13 days ago
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British soldiers await their turn for their food at a meal parade amid intense fighting against Fascist Italian troops at the Battle of Keren, during the East African Campaign (11 March 1941).

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 14 days ago
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Photograph of the often-forgotten heroes of the East African Pioneers during WWII, fought against the Nazi-alligned Vichy France in Madagascar and Fascist Italy during the East African Campaign during which many had fallen. (1943)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 14 days ago
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Mengesha Jembere, a patriot who managed to inflict casualties in the thousands while being surrounded and outgunned, concluding in the failure of the Italian counter-insurgency and alerting the European press. (1937-1938)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 14 days ago
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Indigenious painting of the Battle of Adwa, making Ethiopia the only African state that defeated a European power during the Scramble for Africa. (First Italo-Ethiopian war, 1896)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 14 days ago
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An Italian armed merchant cruiser was sunk by HMNZS Leander, of the Allied forces, near the Maldives while attempting to escape from an Italian-held port in Eritrea (lost to Britain) to Imperial Japan via the Indian Ocean. (1941)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 15 days ago