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The Italian Army of World War II was a "Royal" army.The nominal Commander-in-Chief of the Italian Royal Army was His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele III.As Commander-in-Chief of all Italian armed forces, Vittorio Emanuele also commanded the Royal Air Force (Regia Aeronautica) and the Royal Navy (Regia Marina).
The Military ranks of the Kingdom of Italy were the military insignia used by the Italian Armed Forces when Italy was the Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946). During the World Wars , the Carabinieri , as the then-most senior corps of the Army, wore similar insignia to those used by the rest of the service.
After the end of the Cold War the army renamed all battalions as regiments, although the composition of the units didn't change. In 1993 the brigade's engineer companies were merged with the brigade's signal companies to create Command and Tactical Support Units.
The following is a list of Division and Brigade Commands of partisan formations which operated in the mountains of centre-north Italy in April 1945, classified by partisan and historian Roberto Battaglia. [13] There were: 46 Garibaldi formations; 33 GL (Giustizia e Libertà) 12 Matteotti; 4 Fiamme Verdi; 15 autonomous formations
In 1986 the remaining four divisional headquarters were dissolved and all brigades in Northern Italy came under direct command of the Army's three Army Corps, while the brigades in Central and Southern Italy came under operational control of the local administrative Military Regions.
This is a list of the World War II divisions of the Royal Italian Army of the Kingdom of Italy. Alpine Divisions 1st ...
The L Special Brigade's command was activated on 12 November 1942 in Naples and flown to immediately to Tunisia, where it took command of the first Italian units to arrive. While the bulk of the Axis forces moved westwards to counter advancing allies units, the L Special Brigade moved to the South of the country to secure the left flank of ...
Pietro Secchia "Vineis", political commissar of the Garibaldi Brigades Luigi Longo "Italo", the general commander of the Garibaldi Brigades. On 20 September 1943 in Milano, the military committee of PCI was formed and in October it became in the general command of the Brigate d'assalto Garibaldi (Garibaldi Assault Brigades) under the leadership of Longo and Secchia.