Tanks in the Australian Army forces during the World War II. Meanwhile, the Australian Tank Corps was superseded following the formation of the Australian Armoured Corps in July 1941. In October 1941 two independent light tank squadrons had been formed for service in Malaya; however, neither was deployed due to a lack of vehicles to equip them. In North Africa in 1941, Australian troops were part of the force which captured Tobruk on 22 January as part of Operation Compass, yielding over 25,000 prisoners along with 236 field and medium guns, 23 medium tanks and more than 200 other vehicles. During the capture of the
Italians in France addition, Corsica was a part of the Republic of Genoa until 1768 and many Corsicans speak along with French the Corsican language, a dialect of Italian, related to other central southern Italian dialects along with Tuscan, Neapolitan, Sicilian and others or closely related to the Tuscan dialect of Italian. The list is organized chronologically, listing Italians in France by birth date periods Italians in France Italian migration into what is today France has been going on, in different migrating cycles, for centuries, beginning in prehistoric times right to the modern age. In addition, Corsica passed from the Republic of Genoa