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Fortitude et vigilantia...

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Fortitude et vigilantia sent on April 17, 2023 (7:45) by Viola81. 20 comments, 657 views. [retina]

Fotografia scansionata. Sul retro "Ricordo di un Amico fidato"- Terzo Reggimento Alpini, Battaglione "Fenestrelle". Uno dei motti era "Fortitude et vigilantia". Gli alpini del "Fenestrelle" unitamente a quelli dell'"Exilles" si alternavano per turni di guardia di 3 mesi alla batteria dello Chaberton sino all'istituzione della G.A.F.. Tutte le foto presenti in questa galleria sono di Viola81 e non possono essere utilizzate senza il consenso dell'autore.


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sent on April 17, 2023 (10:10) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

What a beautiful picture! made more incisive by the shooting almost backlit. Hello.

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sent on April 17, 2023 (13:13) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Thanks Bruno! Share! :-)
It looks almost framed!
Good afternoon!

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sent on April 17, 2023 (13:26) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

A sentinel on the end of the world.
Buzzati's words come to mind: "Finally Drogo understood and a slow shiver ran down his spine. It was the water, it was, a distant waterfall pouring down the aps of the nearby cliffs. The wind that made the long jet swing, the mysterious play of echoes, the different sound of the beaten stones made it a human voice, which spoke spoke: words of our life, which we were always a thread away from understanding and instead never.
He was therefore not the soldier who sang, not a man sensitive to cold, punishment and love, but the hostile mountain. What a sad mistake, thought Drogo, maybe everything is like this, we believe that around there are creatures similar to us and instead there is nothing but frost, stones that speak a foreign language ... "
Good day, Viola

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sent on April 17, 2023 (14:01) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

A haughty boy who defies war and with it the world!
With each photo increases the interest in your work.
Hello :-) Marisa

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sent on April 17, 2023 (14:16) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Photographically speaking at that time they had an extra gear.
Clothing and .. film...
Thanks Viola for giving us these emotions
Cc

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sent on April 17, 2023 (18:10)


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@Grazie Michele!

Sai, anch'io davanti ad alcune fotografie ho pensato al "Deserto dei Tartari" per il senso di attesa e di solitudine che ho percepito.
Guarda, non so esattamente in quale presidio sia stata scattata questa fotografia, ma durante le ricerche, ho letto che la batteria dello Chaberton, a differenza di altre fortificazioni di alta quota, fu costantemente presidiata, tranne nel periodo 1915-18 e in quello immediatamente successivo. D'inverno era sorvegliata da un plotone di trenta alpini al comando di un tenente, tratto a rotazione mensile dai battaglioni Fenestrelle ed Exilles del 3° Reggimento: nella bella stagione il presidio era costituito in massima parte dagli artiglieri al servizio dei pezzi.
Il fratello di mio nonno, purtroppo, morì prima del 1940, ancora molto giovane e non vide la disfatta.
A differenza del libro di Buzzati, in cui i nemici sembrano non arrivare mai, qui alla fine arrivarono davvero e distrussero la fortificazione.

Cito da un sito internet:

" Nella breve Guerra delle Alpi del giugno 1940, nonostante fosse ormai inadeguato per concezione tecnica, lo Chaberton venne chiamato a sostenere il suo compito. I Francesi, che da anni avevano ritenuto la fortificazione italiana alla stregua di una reale minaccia, avevano preparato con cura la risposta da rivelare al momento opportuno. Appena iniziate le ostilità, mascherarono abilmente nel vallone di Cervierès due batterie di potenti mortai da 280 mm, i soli in grado di colpire, grazie alla loro traiettoria fortemente parabolica, un obiettivo posto ad altitudine così elevata. Nel pomeriggio del 21 giugno, mentre si scatenava l'offensiva italiana sul Monginevro, fu sufficiente una breve schiarita nella nebbia per consentire al tiro di queste artiglierie di ridurre all'impotenza quello che era stato il vanto del Genio militare italiano. La difesa degli artiglieri italiani fu esemplare e coraggiosa, ma non diede risultati apprezzabili, in quanto non si riuscì a localizzare la provenienza delle granate avversarie. A sera il dramma dello Chaberton apparve in tutta la sua evidenza: in una sola giornata di fuoco avversario erano deceduti nove uomini, fra ustionati e feriti se ne contavano altri cinquanta, sei cannoni erano completamente fuori uso, la teleferica distrutta e tutti i collegamenti interrotti. L'armistizio del 24 giugno pose fine al bombardamento francese. Abbandonata completamente dopo l'8 settembre 1943, la batteria fu nuovamente occupata da reparti della Folgore della R.S.I. nell'autunno del 1944, in coincidenza con l'avanzata delle truppe alleate nella Valle della Durance. Le severe clausole del Trattato di Pace del 1947 assegnarono i ruderi della fortificazione e una cospicua parte del monte Chaberton alla sovranità francese come riparazione di un'assurda guerra: la storia del più famoso forte si concluse nell'estate di dieci anni dopo, quando, per l'ultima volta salirono sulla vetta gli operai di una ditta di Cesana con il compito di smantellare totalmente le casematte e i relitti arrugginiti delle bocche da fuoco. Rimasero solo più i ruderi delle otto torri, sempre più degradati, a testimoniare l'esistenza di quello che era stato, nei primi anni del nostro secolo, il forte più alto d'Europa ...""




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sent on April 17, 2023 (18:14) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Thanks Marisa, yes, they were proud and motivated guys, but looking at some very explicit erotic drawings :-P between the pages of the booklets of Alpine songs, in my humble opinion they thought above all of the girls more than of the Homeland! :-D

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sent on April 17, 2023 (22:48) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

This is also a beautiful document, Viola, but allow me: chapeau to Michele for the quote from "Il deserto dei Tartari" by Dino Buzzati, one of the contemporary writers who most fascinated and influenced me! :-) ;-)
Hello, Alberto.

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sent on April 17, 2023 (23:10) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

I must be jealous??? :-/
Look you have to express an opinion on the photo, not on the comments of Miche74!!! :-/ :-P
:-D :-D :-D
Thanks Alberto! You're right! Chapeau to Michele, who always writes very appropriate comments linked to deep reflections! :-)
Did this photo arouse the same feelings for you?
Good evening, bye!

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sent on April 17, 2023 (23:24) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Did this photo arouse the same feelings for you?

Yes, that's why I find the quote from "The Tartar Desert" so appropriate! ;-)

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sent on April 18, 2023 (8:27) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Alberto, thank you :-P , but the credit goes above all to the photographer and Buzzati (also for me, one of the favorite authors), as well as to the power of the Internet: just remember a few words of a certain passage, and the complete quote is served.
Ah, let's not forget Viola :-D who, seriously, has been able to recognize the value, even photographic, of these shots.
Good day to all
Michele

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sent on April 18, 2023 (17:41) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Great shot of reportage and the scan confirms even more his story ...!!! ;-) A shot for true nostalgic ...!!

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sent on April 18, 2023 (21:58) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

@Miche74
'Ah, let's not forget Viola :-D who, seriously, has been able to recognize the value, even photographic, of these
shots'You say well, Michele! 8-) :-D
@ OraBlu
Thank you :-P
Good evening!

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sent on April 20, 2023 (0:35) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Another beautiful shot!
Congratulations ;-)

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sent on April 23, 2023 (13:26) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Thanks Diodato! Forgive the delay!
For those wishing to deepen the history of the Chaberton battery, I shoot two videos
https://youtu.be/sx3UOy0o37g
https://youtu.be/Qr_ByAotnG4


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sent on April 26, 2023 (12:09) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

It strikes me and I find it beautiful, perhaps a snapshot taken on the spot; The 'weight' of the years increases its value and makes it worthy of a history book, an image that transcends the instant and in our mind today tells a personal, universal story

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sent on April 26, 2023 (12:31) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

I join my friends in congratulating everyone, and in any case, it remains a personal/universal document, as underlined by my friend Fabio, of extraordinary interest and value.
Salutoni

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sent on April 26, 2023 (13:31) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Yes, as you may have read, I found them personally during renovations in the cellar of my grandparents' house. Unfortunately, many have been ruined by humidity and mice...
And to think that nobody was interested in the family...
For me, however, they are really memories and precious documents to be preserved and valued
Thank you very much!
Good afternoon!

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sent on April 26, 2023 (16:07) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

It will be for nostalgia will be that unfortunately I have very few photographs of my grandparents or my young parents but this gallery touches my heart
Thank you

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sent on April 26, 2023 (18:34) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

this gallery touches my heart

I am so pleased!
Thank you! :-)


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