Mechanised unit of the Italian Royal Army in the Second World War
Maletti Group
Raggruppamento Maletti
Captured L3/35 and L3 cc tankettes outside Bardia, Libya 1941
Active
June–December 1940
Disbanded
December 1940
Country
Italy
Branch
Army
Type
Mechanised
Size
6 infantry battalions 2 tank battalions
Engagements
Italian invasion of Egypt Operation Compass
Commanders
General
Pietro Maletti †
Military unit
v
t
e
Western Desert Campaign
1940
Invasion of Egypt
Compass
Nibeiwa
Sidi Barrani
1941
1st Bardia
Tobruk 1941
Mechili
Beda Fomm
Kufra
Giarabub
Sonnenblume
Tobruk siege
2nd Bardia
Twin Pimples
Brevity
Skorpion
Battleaxe
Crusader
Flipper
1st Bir el Gubi
Point 175
2nd Bir el Gubi
1942
Acrobat
Gazala
Bir Hakeim
Tobruk 1942
Mersa Matruh
1st Alamein
Sidi Haneish
Alam Halfa
Agreement
Bigamy
Caravan
Nicety
2nd Alamein
Bertram
Braganza
Outpost Snipe
El Agheila
Associated articles
Frontier Wire
Devil's gardens
Fort Capuzzo
Maletti Group
Camouflage
Babini Group
Combeforce
3rd Indian Motor Brigade
Baggush Box
Sonderkommando Blaich
The Maletti Group(Italian: Raggruppamento Maletti) was an ad hoc mechanised unit formed by the Italian Royal Army (Regio Esercito) in Italian North Africa (Africa Settentrionale Italiana, ASI), during the initial stages of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. The Italian army had three armoured divisions in Europe but all were needed for the occupation of Albania and the forthcoming invasion of Greece, which began on 28 October 1940. The Raggruppamento Maletti was formed in June 1940, as part of the 10th Army (General Mario Berti) and contained all of the M11/39 medium tanks in Libya.
The medium tanks and tankettes already in the colony were to be combined with medium tanks sent from Italy, to form a new armoured division and a new headquarters, the Libyan Tank Command was established on 29 August. The Raggruppamento Maletti participated in Operazione E, the Italian invasion of Egypt in 1940 and reached Sidi Barrani on 16 September. The group was destroyed at the Nibeiwa camp on 9 December, during Operation Compass, a British raid against the 10th Army positions inside Egypt. The rest of the command and tank units arriving in Libya were combined in the Babini Group which was also destroyed at the Battle of Beda Fomm (6–7 February 1941), the final defeat of the 10th Army, which led to the British occupation of Cyrenaica.
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experience. When Italian troops advanced into Egypt in September 1940, the MalettiGroup got lost leaving Sidi Omar, disappeared and had to be found by aircraft...
experience. When Italian troops advanced into Egypt in September 1940, the MalettiGroup got lost leaving Sidi Omar and had to be found by aircraft. In spring...
experience. When Italian troops advanced into Egypt in September 1940, the MalettiGroup got lost leaving Sidi Omar and had to be found by reconnaissance aircraft...
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experience. (During the Italian invasion of Egypt of September 1940, the MalettiGroup got lost after leaving Sidi Omar and reconnaissance aircraft had to...
concentrated in the area from Bardia to Tobruk and brought forward the MalettiGroup, a combined tank, infantry and artillery force, equipped with a company...
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