Description
Cronache della Guerra – Numero 24, 12 giugno 1943
Scanned pages: 16 | Instant PDF download
Italian wartime illustrated magazine (Tumminelli Editore, Roma), digitized.
Cover
An Italian infantryman (‘Fante’) crouches in tall grass with a rifle, in combat pose. Caption: “Fante in azione.” No war correspondent credited on the cover.
Main Articles
“Come l’Asse Risponderà al Terrorismo Anglosassone”
Reports on Goebbels’ speech in Berlin on Anglo-American bombing terror, British war losses, and diplomatic maneuvering around De Gaulle, Giraud, and Franco’s Spain.
No individual author byline given (unsigned editorial piece). Photo credited: R.G. Luce-Marchini (balloon photo); R.G. Luce (Folgore division photo).
“Il Grande Enigma” (Fronti Interni)
Discusses American public opinion and war aims, focusing on journalist Demaree Bess’s writings about the Anglo-American-Soviet relationship.
Author: Renato Caniglia. Photo credited: R.G. Luce – R. Aeronautica.
“Perdura la Fase di Attesa”
Surveys the military situation: British attacks on Pantelleria, fighting in the Kuban bridgehead, the Japanese garrison’s last stand on Attu (Colonel Yamasaki), and the Chungking front.
Author: Atos. Photo credit: Foto B.D.V.
“La Guerra sul Mare: Fatti e Commenti”
Analyzes the naval tonnage war, U-boat campaign results, the strategic role of Pantelleria versus Malta, and the Pacific theater including the loss of Attu.
Author: Giuseppe Caputi. Photo credits: R.G. Luce; R.G. Luce-Esposito; R.G. Luce-Valvasori; R.G. Luce-Bervanelli.
“Momenti di Guerra Aerea in Mediterraneo”
Describes the Axis air forces’ new tasks in the Mediterranean after the Tunisian campaign, and condemns Allied bombing of civilian populations, invoking Anglican Church commentary.
Author: Vincenzo Lioy. Photo credit: R.G. Luce – R. Aeronautica.
“Primato Italiano nella Industria dei Ricuperi di Navi Sommerse”
Covers Italy’s leading role in the marine salvage industry, from the historical diving-bell methods of Nicolò Tartaglia to modern salvage operations (the Sorima company, ships “Raffio” and “Arpione”, recovery of the Leonardo da Vinci, the Elizabethville, and the Egypt).
Author: Michele Paturzo. Includes a reproduced historical woodcut/engraving illustrating 16th-century salvage apparatus, attributed to Niccolò Tartaglia’s treatise (“Travagliata Inventione”).
“Documenti e Bollettini della Nostra Guerra”
Reproduces official Armed Forces General Headquarters war bulletins (Bollettini N. 1099–1104) covering late May/early June 1943 air raids and combat reports over Italy.
No individual author; photo credit: R.G. Luce-Aeronautica.
“Calendario degli Avvenimenti”
A day-by-day calendar of political, diplomatic, and military events from 28 May to 3 June 1943.
No individual author credited. Photo credit: Fo’s, R.G. Luce.
Artists Mentioned
- Niccolò Tartaglia — historical mathematician credited for the original diagram/treatise “Travagliata Inventione” (16th century), reproduced as an engraving illustrating ship-salvage apparatus in the article “Primato Italiano nella Industria dei Ricuperi di Navi Sommerse.”
War Correspondents (Kriegsberichter) Named
- G. Luce-Marchini
- G. Luce-Esposito
- G. Luce-Valvasori
- G. Luce-Bervanelli
- G. Luce (uncredited individual name, generic Istituto Luce war-photography service)