MMS 1 and MMS 116. Jeanne d'Arc returned with 850 men and on 25 September, followed the next day by Montcalm and the British destroyer with 750 men, of supplies, twelve guns and ten vehicles. On 30 September 200 men, four guns, seventy vehicles arrived on Le Fortuné and LST-79, which had been damaged by air attack and sank in the harbour. On 1 October, Jeanne d'Arc and l'Alcyon delivered 700 men and of supplies. The island became an important base for the United States Army Air Forces and Navy for the continuation of operations in Italy, and then for the Landing in the Provence (August 1944). Therefore, the island was nicknamed the USS Corsica. Aftermath Post-war reprisals Nearly 100 collaborators or autonomists (including intellectuals) were put on trial by the French authorities in 1946. Among those found guilty, eight were sentenced to death. Seven of the death sentences were commuted and one irredentist was executed, Petru Cristofini, convicted of treason. He tried to kill himself and was executed while he was dying in November 1943. Petru Giovacchini was forced to hide after the Allied re-occupation of the island. Prosecuted by a Free French tribunal in Corsica, he received a death sentence in 1945 and went into exile in Canterano, near Rome. He died in September 1955 from old war wounds. Since his death, the Italian irredentist movement in Corsica has been considered to be defunct. Italian order of battle Details from Barba 1995. Coast (16 battalions) 225th Coastal Division (General Pedrotti) 226th Coastal Division (General Lazzarini) detached regiment North 20th Infantry Division "Friuli" () (landing group) Blackshirt battalion (Consul Cognoni) South-west 44th Infantry Division "Cremona" (General Primieri) Ticchioni. Central 10th Fucci 175th Castagna ( Gaetano Catalano Gonzaga) Bastia Portovecchio Ajaccio ( Baudoin) Borgo Ghisonaccia Ajaccio Portovecchio Campo dell'Oro (airfields all on the eastern lowlands) See also History of Corsica Italian irredentism in Corsica Italian occupation of France during World War II Military history of Italy during World War II Royal Italian Army (1940–1946) Notes Footnotes References Further reading 1942 in France 1942 in Italy 1943 in France 1943 in Italy France–Italy relations Military history of Corsica Italian irredentism Italian military occupations Military history of France during World War II Military history of Italy during World War II Military occupations of France World War II occupied territories November 1942 events