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Oh, good to know then, thank you. Somehow I never noticed that's the same list...

I think you were right, Maurizio. I checked my sources and indeed, Pignato & Cappellano mentioned formation of 8 independent 75/18 companies in August 1942. According to them, such company was made of 1 Carro Comando and 3 platoons of 3 Semoventi, so 10 vehicles in total, which matches perfectly...

The only Semoventi da 75/18 unit I am aware of in Sicily was the DLX. Gruppo. The book you mentioned states, that the crews of the „IV. Compagnia” were absent, which applies to the DLX. Gruppo, as it's personnel was taken back to mainland Italy and assigned to the newly formed DCI. Gruppo...

I wouldn't be surprised if the „IV. company” was actually referring to IV. Btg. Smv. CC of the „Livorno”, just got mistaken. Notice, that the „compagnia" is specifically an infantry unit, which would apply to the IV Btg., while artillery equivalent of the same rank would be called a „batteria”...

Some photos of 25 pdr in service with 132. Rgt. Art.

It's a Spanish version of the helmet. Italian had slightly different overall shape, vents with mesh and brown, leather liner. Not sure about the year of production.

It's a post war helmet, manufacturer's stamp makes it clear. There should be another stamp with the date of production, but it was cut off. Sadly, it's a common practice among sellers to remove the flap of the liner with this stamp to hide actual date of production and sell it as more expensive...

Recently I got curious again. Where did this info come from? The described structure cannot be true, as we know, that M11/39 battalions had distinct company commanders, just like any other unit. One such commander was well known Giuseppe Locatelli (1 cp. I Btg.). In addition there are no...

Recently, when looking for informations about Italian armored units at Sidi Nsir in Northern Tunisia someone linked me a thread with German documents about Unternehmen Ochsenkopf (attack towards Beja town through Sidi Nsir valley, launched on 26 February 1943) . When looking through them I...

What's the book you mentioned? Driver and commander had telegraph-like system at their positions. It consisted of 4 lights, which commander could light up to give orders to driver. The round thing left to machine guns is driver's telegraph board. Here you can see where the telegraph parts...

I think I've found additional confirmation, that tanks of the 184. were actually M series vehicles. According to N.Pignato in "Gli Autoveicoli... Vol.2" there were plans of creating airborne armored units equipped with medium tanks. They were supposed to be transported by Caproni Ca.180 heavy...

Not the best article in my opinion. Sections about cavalry and artillery (Semoventi) markings are completely wrong.

I have no idea if there even was one. LII. battalion was being formed already in AS and never finished that process. At least some of battalion's soldiers were transferred to 32. Fanteria Carrista from unidentified cavalry regiment.

I have done some more digging and there are few interesting things I found. - Turns out, the long-fendered M14/41 (possibly of the LI.) I've mentioned before was not an M14/41, but in fact belonged to this battalion. I found more photos of this exact vehicle, including one with it's number...

Towing vehicles of medium tank battalions were always Lancia 3Ro trucks.

I've seen this pdf already, but thanks for some additional info Jeff. When it comes to size of the LI. I guess it's just some error/misinterpretation in the book, as the "Carro M" is written in really chaotic way and sometimes even contradicted itself. I 've also came to a conclusion, that...

Basically I'm lookin for some information about these two M tank battalions that I couldn't find to this point, there are also my few thoughts; — Why their numbers were so different from other battalions? Why they were named out of order? — What's going on with LII? Why was it even created and...

I think I know the photo you are talking about, iirc at least the trailer originally belonged to IX. Battaglione Carri M, not sure about the truck, cause it was barely visible.

I've recently acknowledged that these names were actually characteristic markings of the interwar armored cavalry regiments. Colors of the letters and line beneath them corresponded to individual regiments.

I've used wrong wording, sorry. The 5 M40 tanks were part of the initial squad of "Lancieri di V.E. II" regiment, they weren't attached.