Bolt Action - Italian San Marco Marines Infantry Section Modern Horizons The Panzerkampfwagen IV medium tank

The Panzerkampfwagen IV medium tank was the only German tank to earn the distinction of fighting from the beginning to the end of World War II

as well as in the Soviet Union and even as far afield as East Africa

The most widely produced Italian tank of the war

as it was considered a mobile howitzer

Ordering the support batteries to fire on their command

Bolt Action - Italian San Marco Marines Infantry Section Modern Horizons The Panzerkampfwagen IV medium tankUnder Mussolini, the lone battalion of San Marco marines would take part in the Abyssinian and Albanian campaigns, eventually incorporating a second battalion to form the Reggimento San Marco. The Marines formed the assault backbone of the Forza Navale da Sbarco (Naval Landing Force) and would participate in the landings on the Dalmatian coast and various Greek islands and take part in counter partisan operations in Montenegro. By 1942, a third