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Three CCNN Divisions were sent to participate in the Spanish Civil War as part of the Corpo Truppe Volontarie. The Blackshirt (Camicie Nere, or CCNN) Divisions contained regular soldiers and volunteer militia from the Fascist Party. The CCNN divisions were semi-motorised. 1st CC.NN. Division "Dio lo Vuole" ("God Wills it")
The division was one of six CC.NN. divisions raised in summer 1935 in preparation for the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. Its members were volunteers from the various armed militias of the National Fascist Party's paramilitary wing and came from two regions: the 135th and 192nd CC.NN. legions, and the I CC.NN. Machine Gun Battalion from Tuscany and the 202nd CC.NN. Legion from Umbria.
This article lists the commanders of the Blackshirts (Italian: Camicie Nere, CCNN; officially Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale, MVSN — "Voluntary Militia for National Security"), a paramilitary wing of the Italian National Fascist Party (PNF), between the years of 1923 [a] and 1943.
The 3rd CCNN Division was disbanded and consolidated with the 2nd CCNN Division in April 1937. [ citation needed ] April to August : Following the reduction of the CCNN Divisions, Italians began to serve in mixed Italo-Spanish Flechas ("Arrows") units, with the Italians providing the officers and technical personnel and the Spanish served in ...
The 4th CC.NN. Division "3 Gennaio" (Italian: 4ª Divisione CC.NN. "3 Gennaio") was an Italian CC.NN. (Blackshirts militia) division raised on 25 June 1935 for the Second Italo-Ethiopian War against Ethiopia. The name "3 Gennaio" ("3 January") was chosen to commemorate the date of assumption of dictatorial powers by Benito Mussolini on 3 ...
The division was one of six CC.NN. divisions raised in summer 1935 in preparation for the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. Its members were volunteers from the various armed militias of the National Fascist Party's paramilitary wing and came from four regions: the 114th and 116th CC.NN. legions from Lombardy, the 180th CC.NN. Legion from the Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, and Piedmont, and the II CC.NN ...
2nd CC.NN. Division "Fiamme Nere" ("Black Flames"), was one of the three Blackshirts Divisions sent to Spain during the Spanish Civil War to make up the "Corpo Truppe Volontarie" (Corps of Volunteer Troops), or CTV.
3rd CC.NN. Division "Penne Nere", ("Black Feathers"), was one of the three Blackshirt divisions (Camicie Nere, or CC.NN.) sent to Spain during the Spanish Civil War to make up the "Corpo Truppe Volontarie" (Corps of Volunteer Troops), or CTV. 3rd CC.NN. Division "Penne Nere" - Bgd. Gen. Luigi Nuvoloni. 9th Group of Banderas - Console Mario Pittau.