Detailed OOB for Italian co-belligerent forces 1944-1945?

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Detailed OOB for Italian co-belligerent forces 1944-1945?

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Post by forest570 » 18 Nov 2020, 19:51

Hello,

Apologies if this is not the right place to post this. I am looking for more detailed order of battle information for Italian co-belligerent forces in late 1944, after they were reequipped with British weapons and materiel around September 1944. I was able to find the following OOB for the "Legnano" group on wikipedia. What I'm looking for is more information about the how these formations were organized. For example, were there heavy machine guns in the infantry battalions? Were infantry companies organized along British lines, or something else? Were the 6 pdrs/3 inch mortars organized in batteries of six tubes/guns like the British were using in their battalions around this time, or something else? Were any universal carriers present in the infantry battalions?

A quick search of this forum and a couple others didn't turn anything up, as did my googling. I'm wondering if part of this is because I don't speak any Italian...anyway thank you very much for your help!!

--Forest


Combat Group "Legnano"

68th Infantry Regiment "Palermo"
Command Company
I Infantry Battalion
II Infantry Battalion
III Battalion "Col Moschin" (former independent IX Assault Battalion)[2]
Mortar Company (ML 3-inch mortars)
Anti-tank Cannons Company (57/50 (6-pdr) anti-tank guns)
Special Infantry Regiment
Command Company
Bersaglieri Battalion "Goito"
Alpini Battalion "Piemonte"
Alpini Battalion "Abruzzi"
Mortar Company (ML 3-inch mortars)
Anti-tank Cannons Company (57/50 (6-pdr) anti-tank guns)
11th Artillery Regiment "Mantova"
Command Unit
I Field Howitzers Group (88/27 (25-pdr) howitzers)
II Field Howitzers Group (88/27 (25-pdr) howitzers)
III Field Howitzers Group (88/27 (25-pdr) howitzers)
IV Field Howitzers Group (88/27 (25-pdr) howitzers)
V Anti-tank Cannons Group (76/55 (17-pdr) anti-tank guns)
VI Anti-aircraft Group (40/56 anti-aircraft guns)
LI Mixed Engineer Group
1st Construction Engineer Company
2nd Construction Engineer Company
Signal Engineer Company
Divisional Services (logistic, medical, transport, etc. units)

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Re: Detailed OOB for Italian co-belligerent forces 1944-1945?

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Post by Gooner1 » 23 Nov 2020, 17:14

I'm also interested in this. The Italian wiki page on the Co-belligerent Army gives for the Combat Groups:
432 officers, 8,578 other ranks, 116 guns, 170 mortars, 502 light machine guns and 1,277 motor vehicles.

Speculation on the Artillery: four groups of twelve 25-pdrs, Anti-tank Cannon Company each, three platoons of six 6-pdrs(as per British practice), the Anti-tank Cannon Group and the Anti-aircraft Group each of sixteen pieces?


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