35 mortars) CXXVI Machine Gun Battalion CCXXXIII Motorized Artillery Group (75/27 field guns; 6th Battery detached to Mobile Group "C") Mixed Engineer Battalion 50th Bersaglieri Motorcyclists Company (attached) 126th Anti-tank Company (47/32 anti-tank guns) Division Services The 28th Infantry Division "Aosta" was one of three divisions, which recruited in Sicily. It mainly drafted men from western Sicily and had its peacetime headquarters in Palermo. It's two infantry regiments were based in Trapani (5th) and Palermo (6th), where also the division's artillery regiment was based. 28th Infantry Division "Aosta" - Generale di Divisione Giuseppe Romano 5th Infantry Regiment "Aosta" 3x Fusilier battalions Support Weapons Company (65/17 infantry support guns) Mortar Company (81mm Mod. 35 mortars) 6th Infantry Regiment "Aosta" 3x Fusilier battalions Support Weapons Company (65/17 infantry support guns) Mortar Company (81mm Mod. 35 mortars) 171st CC.NN. Legion "Vespri" (detached as Tactical Group "Alcamo-Partinico") CLXVIII CC.NN. Battalion CLXXI CC.NN. Battalion 171st CC.NN. Machine Gun Company 22nd Artillery Regiment "Aosta" I Artillery Group (75/27 field guns; detached to Tactical Group "Alcamo-Partinico") II Artillery Group (75/27 howitzers) III Motorized Group (75/18 Mod. 35 field guns) IV Artillery Group (75/13 mountain guns) 328th Anti-aircraft Battery (20/65 anti-aircraft guns; 2nd Section detached to Mobile Group "A") 365th Anti-aircraft Battery (20/65 anti-aircraft guns) XXVIII Mortar Battalion (81mm Mod. 35 mortars) CXXVIII Mixed Engineer Battalion 28th Anti-tank Company (47/32 anti-tank guns) Division Services Italian XVI Army Corps XVI Army Corps, in Piazza Armerina - Generale di Corpo d'Armata Carlo Rossi - responsible for Sicily to the East of a line from Cefalù to Gela 40th Army Corps Artillery Grouping, in Piazza Armerina X Motorized Artillery Group (105/28 howitzers) XVI Motorized Artillery Group (105/28 howitzers) XXIX Motorized Artillery Group (105/28 howitzers) CIX Motorized Artillery Group (149/13 howitzers) CX Heavy Artillery Group (149/13 howitzers) 16th Army Corps Engineer Grouping LVIII Bersaglieri Battalion XII Army Corps Machine Gun Battalion CCXXXIII Self-propelled Anti-tank Battalion (47/32 L40 self-propelled guns) XI Anti-aircraft Artillery Group (75/46 anti-aircraft guns) 1x Engineer battalion Army Corps Services Coastal Troops Command Coastal Troops Command - Generale di Divisione Achille d'Havet 206th Coastal Division, in Modica - Generale di Divisione Achille d'Havet - responsible for the coast from Punta Braccetto in Santa Croce Camerina to Arenella to the South of Syracuse 122nd Coastal Regiment CCXLIII Coastal Battalion CCCLXXV Coastal Battalion 123rd Coastal Regiment CCCLXXXI Coastal Battalion CCCLXXXIII Coastal Battalion DXLII Coastal Battalion 146th Coastal Regiment CCCLXXIV Coastal Battalion CDXXX