Word: turkomans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Field Marshal Albert Kesselring was making his last stand, which would end when the British could break through Rimini into the plain of the Po. Already he had pulled back the tough Nazis of the ist Parachute Division who had taken a beating before Rimini, and replaced them with Turkoman infantry of the 162nd Division...
...Italy the 162nd Turkoman Infantry -former Russian prisoners officered by Germans-was fighting to help save Kesselring's army. Almond-eyed, some with pigtails, they had belonged to crack Red Army Siberian divisions, now were obviously helping the Germans for a meal ticket...