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the Italian Army made good use of mortars such as the Mortaio da 81/14 Modello 35 which was nearly identical to the 81mm mortar fielded by the United States
The number of field engineers was doubled to overcome the thousands of rivers needing to be crossed and to deal with Japanese booby traps
engineers or colonial troops (Algerian
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