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Organizational/Authorization (TO&E-type) documents of the Italian military

Eugen Pinak

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I've decided to start a thread to post various organizational/Authorization (TO&E-type) documents of the Italian military. As well as other TO&E data in any form.
Few of those are available in the Internet, so I think it'll be useful for forum members to collect them in one place.

All the TO&Es in this post are from the book "GLI ALBANESI NELLE FORZE ARMATE ITALIANE", which has a lot of information on organization of Albanian troops in Italian military and many original TO&Es attached in documental supplement. Unfortunately it lacks basic TO&Es of Albanian battalion and regiment. Does anybody have details on their organization?
 

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Eugen Pinak

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Part 2 of Albanian TO&Es.
 

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Eugen Pinak

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Part 3 of Albanian TO&Es.
 

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Eugen Pinak

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Part 4 (=final) of Albanian TO&Es.
 

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jwsleser

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I only have a few documents on the Albanian units. Mostly they cover the depot which you have already posted. However you are missing p.3 of allegato n.1 from the depot (folglio 54260/436 dated 1 febbraio 1942, your toe (22) and (23)).

EDIT: it makes sense to post the entire document together in one place.
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jwsleser

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The battalions and regiment appear to be covered by foglio n. 0014730/ord del 26/6/1941 which I don't have. These are the mobilization orders for the regiments.

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Eugen Pinak

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Thank you for the additions. Both documents are present in the book. I've just missed them when making this thread :(
Interesting, that the author of the book haven't posted basic TO&Es.

BTW, its interesting to see printed TO&Es typed in cursive, as if they are written by hand.
 

Francoquarter

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in cursive like are written by typewriting machine
when in the 80s i started use of typewriting machine was common wrote with this characters
 

jwsleser

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Interesting, that the author of the book haven't posted basic TO&Es.

Having now experienced the Italian archives, I have two thoughts on the matter.

1) Foglio n. 0014730/ord del 26/6/1941 is the same document that authorizes the regular Italian infantry, so is not Albanian specific (unlikely);

2) The documents are lost. I was fortunate in finding collectors that possessed documents and circulars that the archives didn't possess during my research of the paracadutisti. I now believe the many of the gaps in our knowledge is due to missing documents in the records. When I review what is available, the fact that these gaps haven't been filled after all these years of individuals researching in the archives is telling.

Just some thoughts....

Pista! Jeff
 
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