155th Infantry Division Emilia

155th Infantry Division Emilia
Active	1942–1943
Country	Italy
Branch	Royal Italian Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Division
Nickname(s)	Emilia
Engagements	Second World War

The 155th Infantry Division Emilia was an infantry division of the Italian Army during the Second World War, formed in December 1941 as a garrison division. Despite this, in April 1942 it was sent to Dalmatia to assist in combat operations against Yugoslav Partisans. After the Italian armistice with the Allies of September 1943, most of the division surrendered to the Germans, but some elements held out until October, while the 155th Artillery Regiment managed to cross the Adriatic to reach Apulia in Southern Italy, where it joined forces with the 104th Motorised Division Mantova.^[1]

Commander

Brigadier General Livio Negro^[2]

Order of battle

• 119. Emilia Infantry Regiment
• 120. Emilia Infantry Regiment
• 155. Artillery Regiment
• 255. Machine Gun Battalion
• 155. Engineer Battalion
• Motor Transport Section
• Medical Section
• Supply Section
• Carabinieri Section ^{[nb 1][1]}

Notes

Footnotes

1. An Italian Infantry Division normally consisted of two Infantry Regiments (three Battalions each), an Artillery Regiment, a Mortar Battalion (two companies), an Anti Tank Company, a Blackshirt Legion of two Battalions was sometimes attached. Each Division had only about 7,000 men, The Infantry and Artillery Regiments contained 1,650 men, the Blackshirt Legion 1,200, each company 150 men.^[3]

Citations

1. Marcus Wendal. "Italian Army". Axis History. Archived from the original on 2009-05-13. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
2. "Italian Generals". The Generals of WWII. Archived from the original on 2009-05-13. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
3. Paoletti, p 170

• Paoletti, Ciro (2008). A Military History of Italy. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-275-98505-9.
• Jowett, Phillip. The Italian Army 1040-45 (3): Italy 1943-45. Osprey Publishing, Westminster. ISBN 978-1-85532-866-2.