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Monday, September 9th 2013, 12:49am

Order of Battle of the Aeronautica Militare

See below for orders of battle by year, beginning in 1944.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
-Siegfried Sassoon

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Monday, September 9th 2013, 12:53am

1944

Northern Italy
- First Air Defense Division
- Fifth Air Division
- Third Air Division
- Second Air Division
- Twenty Third Bomber Stormo
- Twenty Seventh Bomber Stormo
- Twenty Eighth Bomber Stormo
- First Sea Based Reconnaissance Squadron
- Eighth Sea Based Reconnaissance Squadron
- Sixth Sea Based Reconnaissance Squadron
- Third Sea Based Reconnaissance Squadron
Central Italy
- Third Air Defense Division
- First Air Division
- First Fighter Stormo [Unit charged with direct air defense of Rome in addition to the Third ADD]
- Long Range Photoreconnaissance Group [24 Ermes and supporting aircraft]
- Twenty Second Bomber Stormo
- Twenty Fourth Bomber Stormo
- Second Sea Based Reconnaissance Squadron
- Seventh Sea Based Reconnaissance Squadron
Southern Italy, Sicily & Sardinia
- Second Air Defense Division
- Fourth Air Division
- Sixth Air Division
- Twenty Fifth Bomber Stormo
- Twenty Sixth Bomber Stormo
- Fourth Sea Based Reconnaissance Squadron
- Ninth Sea Based Reconnaissance Squadron
- Fifth Sea Based Reconnaissance Squadron
- Tenth Sea Based Reconnaissance Squadron
- Eleventh Sea Based Reconnaissance Squadron
Tripolitania & Cyrenaica
- Fourth Air Defense Division
- Seventh Air Division
- Twenty Ninth Bomber Stormo
- Twelth Sea Based Reconnaissance Squadron
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
-Siegfried Sassoon