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1914 - birth year (Conscript Class) 18662 - service number 59 - Siracusa Military District C = Catholic Calafiore, Paolo - Soldier’s name Calafiore Salvatore - Father’s name Giliberto Itria - Mother’s name Siracusa - Birthplace Siracusa - Birth Province All the best Maurizio

n fact, entering the SME is like entering a private club to which you are not introduced.... this is due to the endemic Italian bureaucracy and not only that, but also to the fact that many of the Archive's regular visitors are also writers of military matters, including the director..... just...

Marek The Italian documents (especially after the NARA Rolls of the T821 series came to light but also those present in Rome) are much more complete as regards the AOI than as regards North Africa (moreover there are at least forty primary texts that you do not cite at all in addition to twenty...

I have the first volume on the war in AOI of 1940-41....it is a volume that says nothing new and moreover lacks the description of salient phases of the campaign and with very incomplete information on the deployments and composition of the units.....then the orders of battle are completely...

Unfortunately if your grandfather's service was limited to the pre-war period, things get even more complicated because texts on the Militia during the war period are rare for the obvious reasons that in Italy the word Camicia Nera after the war had become synonymous with convinced fascist and...

The majority of the CCNN battalions in East Africa were not undivisional but were generally held as sector reserves. The 166th battalion which was a battalion mobilised by the 4th AOI Legion always remained at the disposal of the Amara Troop Command then Northern Exchequer. It always remained in...

At the time of the beginning of the operations the deployment of the Superga was as follows.....at the moment the south of Tunisia was held (Italians) by the 50th Imperiali brigade

As regards the anti-parachute units, over 500 were formed with a consequent numbering starting from the northern regions and ending with those of the south... furthermore, as already mentioned previously, a mix of units from all the specialties of the army, navy and air force.....for example, in...

Hammurabi 70 the discussion regarding the coastal divisions is of a completely different aspect. The coastal divisions were not in fact emanations of the CCNN or the Militia but had been formed over the years by the army even if sometimes militia units had also been part of it. However, in the...

OOOPHHSSS.....Hammurabi sorry but in a hurry I posted the answer describing the MACA...now I'll post the right one about the MIlmart....thanks Milmart The Coastal Defense Militia was born on 21 January 1935, from the Dicat soldiers who supplied personnel to the coastal defense batteries of...

This specialty was born on 16 April 1927 with the name Anti-Aircraft Artillery Militia; since 1930 called Militia for territorial anti-aircraft defense, (M.Di.CAT.). Since peacetime, anti-aircraft defense has been entrusted to the Militia for Territorial Anti-Air Defense (MDCAT). This specialty...

Non Superamericano ma Superaereo All the best Maurizio

Take a look at the attachment, perhaps it will clear up your thoughts about your diatribe on the CAS.... in point 7, this type of intervention by Superamericano was already foreseen (document dated May 1941)

However, now that I have also read all the latest American texts on the C3 they all seemed to me not only incomplete but also full of nonsense such as those on the lack of theories of ground attack or infantry support by the Italians.... .. apart from the fact that if someone had read even one...

The NARA has little or nothing on the Italian 1940s.....but look, there really isn't much in Rome either.....unfortunately a lot has been definitively lost....let it be said by someone who is in Rome it happened several times....perhaps there could have been something among the papers that the...

Congratulations...... Maurizio

Superaereo not Superaiuto or Supereroe....mah!!! Maurizio

Jeff If your list is the list of the Directives of the C3 Office based in Super Army it concerns only the Army Directives of the year 1942 but not those of Supermarina and Superaiuto and those of Super Army of 1941 which are also named but not in an exhaustive manner ...in addition to that...

Unfortunately, the project Summary of the C3 Office of the army dates back to 10 June 1942....after it there were at least 3 other Italian projects and one German one, including the operational one.....very probably even Pastore had not reached the end of your work....maybe??? hmm??? All the...

The true definitive work regarding this theme is: Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland. Udine, Gorizia, Trieste, Pola, Fiume e Lubiana durante l'occupazione tedesca 1943-1945 Copertina flessibile – 1 febbraio 2005 All the best Maurizio...