2nd Army (Italy)

2ª Armata 2nd Army
Active	1915-1945
Country	Kingdom of Italy
Branch	Royal Italian Army
Type	Infantry
Role	Field army
Size	Army
Engagements	World War I World War II

The 2nd Army (Italian: 2ª Armata) was a World War I and World War II field army of the Royal Italian Army.

World War I[]

Commanders[]

• General Pietro Frugoni (May 1915 - June 1916)
• General Settimio Piacentini (July 1916 - June 1917)
• General Luigi Capello (June 1917 - October 1917)
• General Luca Montuori, ad interim (October 1917)
• General Luigi Capello (October - November 1917)

World War II[]

During World War II the 2nd Army was the Italian (Complex Major) Great Unit charged, from 1940 to 1943, of the activities of control and garrison of the occupied or annexed territories of the former Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

2nd Army ORBAT, depending units:

• "Comando Superiore Forze Armate (FF.AA.) di Slovenia e Dalmazia" - "Supersloda"
• V Corps, in Lika
• VI Corps, in Herzegovina
• XI Corps, in Southern Dalmatia and Herzegovina
• XVIII Corps, from 18 February 1942; General Quirino Armellini then Umberto Spigo around Zara and Spalato responsible for the territories from Graciaz to the Narenta river
• Comando Truppe Montenegro: XIV Corps, in Montenegro (a functionally dependent Command and Great Unit but not a constituent part of the 2nd Army)

Initially strong of 250,000 men in 15 divisions the 4 immediately dependent Corps were then reduced to 230,000 men in 13 divisions. The 2nd Army was a second line force with most of the men in their late 30s and early 40s, the only really largely combat ready and effective (Simple Major) Great Unit was the assigned component of the Alpine Division Julia only partially deployed in the yugoslav theatre of operations as a whole unit. After the armistice of Cassibile on September 8, 1943 and the announcement by Italy of war on Germany, the majority of the 2nd Italian army was withdrawn into the mountains of Dalmatia at the Yugoslav Partisans, under command of Josip Broz Tito, which formed the Italian Partisan Division "Garibaldi" and other parts of the 2nd Army non entry in Garibaldi also keep fighting against the Germans along with the Yugoslav partisans in Division Italia (Yugoslavia), during 1944-1945 Italian troops and help the Soviet army and Bulgarian army fighting against the German army in Croatia, Hungary and Austria.

Commanders[]

• General Vittorio Ambrosio (1940 - January 1942)
• General Mario Roatta (March 18, 1942 - January 1943)
• General Mario Robotti (February 1943 - June 1945)

See also[]

• V.A.C.

Footnotes[]

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