ITALIAN ARMOUR UNIT IN 8 SEPTEMBER 1943
Hello ALL!
As the person very were interested Italian armour unit (about what you already know) I ask to help to me to make the catalogue of Italian armour unit for September, 8th, 1943.
So, I know that were: Corpo dArmato Motocorazzato:
ARIETE II
CENTAURO
4 TANK REGIMENT (in one Italian source I have read through, what it had 1 P-40, whether the truth it?)
PIAVE
SASSARI (Semovente)
XVII corpo Staff
(Semovente 90\53)
It is all area Rome
To Sardinia was:
Scalabrino (M14 \41, S35)
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That I know this all about armour unit in Italy. What else armour unit were in Italy?
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I cannot understand what armour unit September were on the Balkans, on islands of Greece, in France.
I ask to help to me to understand it.
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Well if names will be in Italian.
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I am sorry for bad English, my Italian is not better. But I can already understand Italian.
Best regards from Siberia!
Alex.
ITALIAN ARMOUR UNIT IN 8 SEPTEMBER 1943
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Hard question
In summer 1943 the largest part of surviving italian armors were spread between a lot of little units spread here and there in Italy and italian occupation zones. A complete list does not exist...AFAIK every effort in this sense ends always forgetting something.
I try to place some element
Italy
Around Rome
135th Armored Division Ariete II (armors spread between 10th armored cavalry regiment "Vittorio Emanuele Lancers", 16th motorized cavalry regiment "Lucca Light Horse", 8th recon armored regiment "Montebello Lancers", 235th artillery regiment)
10th Motorized Division Piave
136th Armored Division Centauro II ("Leonessa" armored group)
some armor also with 12th Infantry Division Sassari
4th Tank Regiment
Moving towards Rome from North
18th recon armored bersaglieri regiment
South of Rome
No identified unit
North of Rome
in Tuscany: the depot of 31st Tank Regiment with XIX Medium Tank Battalion
Padan Plains: depots of tank regiments 1st, 3rd, 33rd
Sardinia
32nd Tank Regiment with medium tank battalions XVI and XVIII and other units
Corsica
armored units not identified
France
no units in apparence
Slovenia and Dalmatia
many little units including fast tank groups I, II and III
Montenegro
III/31st Tank Battalion
Albania
III and IV Firenze Lancers armored battalions and other units
Greece
no identified unit
Rhodes
CCCXII tank battalion
bye
In summer 1943 the largest part of surviving italian armors were spread between a lot of little units spread here and there in Italy and italian occupation zones. A complete list does not exist...AFAIK every effort in this sense ends always forgetting something.
I try to place some element
Italy
Around Rome
135th Armored Division Ariete II (armors spread between 10th armored cavalry regiment "Vittorio Emanuele Lancers", 16th motorized cavalry regiment "Lucca Light Horse", 8th recon armored regiment "Montebello Lancers", 235th artillery regiment)
10th Motorized Division Piave
136th Armored Division Centauro II ("Leonessa" armored group)
some armor also with 12th Infantry Division Sassari
4th Tank Regiment
Moving towards Rome from North
18th recon armored bersaglieri regiment
South of Rome
No identified unit
North of Rome
in Tuscany: the depot of 31st Tank Regiment with XIX Medium Tank Battalion
Padan Plains: depots of tank regiments 1st, 3rd, 33rd
Sardinia
32nd Tank Regiment with medium tank battalions XVI and XVIII and other units
Corsica
armored units not identified
France
no units in apparence
Slovenia and Dalmatia
many little units including fast tank groups I, II and III
Montenegro
III/31st Tank Battalion
Albania
III and IV Firenze Lancers armored battalions and other units
Greece
no identified unit
Rhodes
CCCXII tank battalion
bye