The divisione corazzata italiana remained virtually unchanged throughout the African campaign North. The planned organization chart of the three armored divisions of 1940 included, for each, a regiment with three battalions of M tanks (total 184), a regiment of bersaglieri with three battalions (one motorcyclist battalion, two mechanized battalions), an artillery regiment two groups of towed 75/27s and two battalions of 20 mm anti-aircraft guns, a motorized anti-tank company (47 mm), a mixed engineer battalion and, of course, service units. This organization chart was modified in 1941 in order to balance the large unit.
In 1942, this included a brigade headquarters, a tank regiment (with three battalions of M and a battery of 20 mm anti-aircraft guns), a regiment of bersaglieri (to a motorcycle company, two mechanized battalions, a ground/ground and ground/air fire support battalion), an artillery regiment to two groups of 75/ 27 of the old model, plus a group of 105/28, two groups of self-propelled 75/18, and a mixed group of anti-aircraft defense with two batteries of 90 mm and two of 20 mm.
To these units were to be added a regiment of L tanks, an engineer and services battalion and a reconnaissance unit (L tanks or armored cars), plus a battalion of self-propelled tank destroyers with two companies. In total, the division had three armored cars (plus those of the reconnaissance unit, or its
L tanks in corresponding number), 192 M tanks and 21 47/32 self-propelled guns, without count a hundred L3 tanks of mediocre operational value, and 24 to 36 75 mm self-propelled.
Such a well-balanced organization enabled the suitably trained Italian forces to achieve certain successes in North in the period 1941-42. This was not the case with the armored brigades hastily set up in 1940.
After the end of the African campaign, this organization was no longer considered satisfactory. The last Italian D.B., the Ariete II, received an endowment of more than 300 armored vehicles. It never went into action and was dissolved at the Armistice.
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