1x Anti-aircraft battery (20/65 anti-aircraft guns; CC.NN.) There were also single CC.NN. batteries at Portopalo di Capo Passero, Motta Sant'Anastasia, Vizzini, Pozzallo, Vittoria, Punta Secca, and Costa Raia, and two batteries at Cassibile and two at Lercara Friddi. The Royal Italian Army had single batteries at Pachino, Acireale, Ragusa, and Roccapalumba. Other batteries deployed in Sicily in July 1943, whose location on the island is unknown, are listed below: 20/65 anti-aircraft guns: 59th, 284th, 792nd, 793rd, 815th, 837th, and 1506th batteries 75/27 anti-aircraft guns: 8th, 29th, 133rd, 331st, and 452nd batteries 75/46 anti-aircraft guns: 524th Battery 76/40 anti-aircraft guns: 625th and 648th batteries 8.8 cm Flak anti-aircraft guns: 1399th, 1405th, 1408th, 1415th, 1418th, and 1429th batteries Batteries with unknown equipment: 342nd, 345th, 413th, 417th, 504th, 650th, 908th batteries Voluntary Militia for National Security The Voluntary Militia for National Security ( - MVSN) was the Italian National Fascist Party's paramilitary wing. The MVSN had police functions and provided the regime with readily available paramilitary units for internal oppression. During WWII the MVSN raised military units, which were operationally assigned to Royal Italian Army or Royal Italian Navy commands. The MVSN's command authority in Sicily was the 14th Zone and its legions, the units they raised for the defense of Sicily, and the commands these units were assigned to are listed below. 14th Zone, in Palermo 166th CC.NN. Legion "Peloro", in Messina (29th Infantry Division "Piemonte") CLXVI (1939) (29th Infantry Division "Piemonte") DLXVI Mobile Territorial CC.NN. Battalion (Maritime Military Base Messina-Reggio Calabria) 50th, 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 54th, and 55th Coastal CC.NN. companies (6th CC.NN. Maritime Artillery Legion) 167th CC.NN. Legion "Etna", in Catania CLXVII (1939) (166th CC.NN. Legion "Peloro"/ 29th Infantry Division "Piemonte") DLXVII Mobile Territorial CC.NN. Battalion (26th Military Zone) 168th CC.NN. Legion "Hyblae", in Ragusa CLXVIII CC.NN. Battalion (171st CC.NN. Legion "Vespri"/ 28th Infantry Division "Aosta") CCCLXVIII Mobile Territorial CC.NN. Battalion (25th Military Zone) 58th and 59th Coastal CC.NN. companies (25th Military Zone) 169th CC.NN. Legion "Tirreno", in Syracuse CLXIX CC.NN. Battalion (173rd CC.NN. Legion "Salso"/ 54th Infantry Division "Napoli") CCCLXIX Territorial CC.NN. Battalion (Maritime Military Sector Augusta-Syracuse) 60th and 63rd Coastal CC.NN. companies (7th CC.NN. Maritime Artillery Legion) 170th CC.NN. Legion "Agrigentum", in Agrigento CCCLXX Territorial CC.NN. Battalion (25th Military Zone) 67th and 68th Coastal CC.NN. companies (25th Military Zone) 171st CC.NN. Legion "Vespri", in Palermo (28th Infantry Division "Aosta") CLXXI CC.NN. Battalion (28th Infantry Division "Aosta") CCCLXXI Territorial