Lard Island News: CoC Espana

No Costa Brava planes involved as, through the miracle of Lard technology, we can whisk you to the Spanish Civil War with just one single

The Raggruppamento Repartí Specializzati (Groupment of Special Units) – RSS, was a composite formation within the Corpo di Truppe Volontarie, which encapsulated all of the

The reputation of the Corpo Truppe Volontarie, the Corps of Italian ‘Volunteers’ sent by Mussolini to support the Nationalists, has probably suffered as much from

The main difficulty faced by the Nationalist Army was providing sufficient support weapons to its infantry formations. Although it had been able to equip the

The realisation that the numerous Popular Militia battalions were not up to the task of defeating the Nationalist Army became apparent very soon after the

With the exception of the Divisional Cavalry regiments, which were roughly evenly distributed across the Peninsular, the regiments of the Cavalry Division were largely clustered

After the unsuccessful coup on July 19th 1936, the various Infantry formations found themselves either in Government or Rebel-held areas, irrespective of the political ideologies,

The troops which have become known to us as the Requetés, were a mix of militias drawn from several political and social groups that existed

In 1934 Las Milicias Antifascistas Obreras y Campesinas (The Workers and Peasants Antifascist Militia)-MAOC, had been formed by Communists and Socialists, to train members to

The various Moroccan formations, or Tropas Indígenas (Indigenous Troops), as they were collectively referred to by the Spanish, formed the bulk of the manpower of

Out of the entirety of the Spanish Army, the Tercio de Marruecos (Regiment of Morocco), more famously to become La Legión (The Legion), was the

The rebellion of July 1936 divided the three services tasked with Spain’s internal security, the rural gendarmerie of the Guardia Civil, the frontier guards of

As soon as it became clear that there was a rebellion underway, the militant membership of the Left-Wing political parties and trade unions, as well

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