Delease (Delegazione Africa Settentrionale, North Africa Delegation) was a colonial body of the Supreme Command of the Italian Armed Forces, with headquarters in Tobruk and jurisdiction over North Africa, during the Second World War, which served as liaison between the tactical command of Panzer Army Africa and the Italian Supreme Command in Rome, and managed its logistics.[1][2]
Among its commanders were Curio Barbasetti di Prun and Enea Navarini, who had won the esteem of Erwin Rommel. As of 23 October 1942 it had the functions of an army command, to which three army corps commands were subordinated, Delease1 (Tripoli, responsible for the logistics of Tripolitania), Delease2 (Benghazi, responsible for the logistics of Cyrenaica) and Delease3 (Marsa Matruh, responsible for the logistics of the three army corps at the front), as well as the command of the North Africa Intendency, under General Vittorio Palma.[3][4]
Delease ceased to function on 16 November 1942, after the retreat following the second battle of El Alamein, and its functions were transferred to Superlibia, the High Command in Libya.[5]
References edit
- ^ Crociani, Piero; Battistelli, Pier Paolo (November 20, 2013). Italian soldier in North Africa 1941–43. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781780968575 – via Google Books.
- ^ Cesvam, Centro Studi (23 October 2020). "Antonio Trogu.1942 Africa Settentrionale. El Alamein – Istituto del Nastro Azzurro".
- ^ "Delegazione (del Comando) Africa Settentrionale, 23.10.42". Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
- ^ "Rommel Panzerarmee Afrika #2". Issuu. 23 May 2012.
- ^ "La Posta Militare Italiana in Tunisia (1942-1943)". May 13, 2006. Archived from the original on 2006-05-13.
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