05-12-2006, 11:40 PM
Hello Mr. Riojas,
I just finished watching a History Channel DVD about the Italian campaign and wanted to ask you a question. Did you ever encounter any Italian troops who were actually fighting there? All I saw was alot of Germans! Also heard that when Italy decided to stop fighting with Germany it took only a handful of motorcycled German troops to disarm two entire Italian Divisions!!!
All kidding aside, the impression I got is that you were in one of the roughest campaigns of WWII..terrible hard fighting in miserable conditions. Thank you for your service and thank you for sharing with us your wartime memories Sir.
Jim