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by Lupo Solitario
Sat Sep 28, 2002 2:03 pm
Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
Topic: Italian Divisions (44-45)
Replies: 6
Views: 6065

sincerly, being the CIL the result of progressive enlargement, I must control my sources for dates of joining of every unit...anyway the italian contingent became officially CIL at April 18th, 1944 and was retired by front August 31st, 1944. To give an idea, the OOB of CIL at his birth was (april 19...
by Lupo Solitario
Sat Sep 28, 2002 12:52 am
Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
Topic: Italian Divisions (44-45)
Replies: 6
Views: 6065

the italian army was practically crushed by germans in septmeber-october 1943 apart forces deployed in southern italy, sardinia and corsica which continued to serve under royal govenrment. The rebuilding of armies during civil war was quite chaotical. Apart some unit (usually battalion sized) which ...