Yes, in fact it is an all-Italian concept, among other things to complicate things even more, it must be said that during the conflict things became even more tangled because both in the Balkans and in Northern Africa the GAF began to mobilize through the sector commands maneuver battalions of both infantry and machine gunners that these were similar to those of the line army. However, in Bardia and Giarabub overall there were at the time of the Australian attack approximately 2500 men of the GAf divided into the various strongholds which, however, were of variable size and therefore not identifiable individually....
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Maurizio