supplies, were landed from the Italian destroyers and . On 12 September, Hitler ordered Corsica to be abandoned and von Liebenstein, the commander of the Sicily evacuation, was sent to Corsica to supervise the naval withdrawal. The Germans planned to concentrate in the north-east of Corsica and use the port of Bastia and the airfields nearby to evacuate the German garrison to the Italian mainland (Livorno and Piombino) and to the island of Elba, between Corsica and Tuscany. Until 24 September, transport aircraft operated from Ghisonaccia Airfield, about half-way up the east coast, to mainland airfields at Pisa, Lucca, Arena Metato and Pratica di Mare then closed the airfield. On 25 September, the air evacuation resumed from Bastia. On 17 September, French General Henry Martin had met Italian General Giovanni Magli in Corte to coordinate the movements of Allied and Italian troops. On the 21st, Giraud arrived in Corsica. On the 22nd, Sartène was definitively liberated and on the 23rd, advanced troops and Corsican resistance fighters reached Porto-Vecchio. The Italian troops of the 20th Infantry Division "Friuli" would now play a decisive role. With the participation of Moroccan colonial troops, they took the San Stefano pass on 30 September and then the Teghime pass on 3 October, pressing the German withdrawal. But they were unable to stop the evacuation, which was completed on 3 October. The sea evacuation transported 6,240 German troops, about 1,200 prisoners of war, more than 3,200 vehicles and of stores. By air the Germans lifted 21,107 men and about of supplies for a loss of 55 transport aircraft, most on the ground on Italian airfields, to Allied bombing. Allied bombers and submarines sank about of shipping. German losses during the liberation amounted to around 700 killed and wounded and 350 captured. The Italians lost 600 to 800 soldiers killed and 2,000 wounded, including many members of the Friuli division. The French suffer 75 killed, 239 wounded and 12 missing. The transport of Allied forces to Corsica had continued and on 21 September, 1,200 men, of stores, six guns and six vehicles were delivered by the light cruiser and the destroyers Le Fantastique, Tempête and L'Alcyon. The French cruiser and Le Fantastique arrived on 23 September with 1,500 troops and of supplies. Another 350 men and of supplies, 21 guns and thirty vehicles arrived on the destroyers and l'Alcyon, Landing Ship, Tank-79 (LST-79) and the MMS-class minesweepers