Coastal Battalion CDXXXVII Coastal Battalion 44th Coastal Artillery Grouping CII Coastal Artillery Group (75/27 field guns) CLXI Coastal Artillery Group (149/35 heavy guns) CLXIV Coastal Artillery Group (149/35 heavy guns) CCIX Coastal Artillery Group (100/22 howitzers) CCXXIV Coastal Artillery Group (100/22 howitzers) 227th Coastal Artillery Battery (105/14 howitzers) DXLII Mobile Territorial Bersaglieri Battalion (attached, 2nd Company detached to Mobile Group "F") CIV Static Machine Gun Battalion CCXX Self-propelled Anti-tank Battalion (attached; 47/32 L40 self-propelled guns) 122nd Engineer Platoon 2x Anti-paratrooper units Division Services 213th Coastal Division, Generale di Brigata Carlo Gotti - responsible for the coast from Punta Castelluccio in Agnone Bagni to Moleti south of Messina 135th Coastal Regiment XII Coastal Battalion CII Coastal Battalion CCCLXIX Coastal Battalion CCCLXXII Coastal Battalion 21st Coastal Artillery Grouping XXX Coastal Artillery Group (105/28 howitzers) XC Coastal Artillery Group (2x 149/19 and 2x 149/35 heavy gun batteries) CXLIV Coastal Artillery Group (105/14 howitzers) CCXXX Coastal Artillery Group (100/22 howitzers) CLIII Static Machine Gun Battalion Division Services XVIII Coastal Brigade, in Niscemi Generale di Brigata Orazio Mariscalco - responsible for the coast from Punta Due Rocche to the East of Licata to Punta Braccetto in Santa Croce Camerina 134th Coastal Regiment CDXXIX Coastal Battalion CCCLXXXIV Coastal Battalion 178th Coastal Regiment DI Coastal Battalion (4th Company detached to Mobile Group "E") CCCLXXXIX Coastal Battalion 60th Coastal Artillery Grouping XXI Coastal Artillery Group (2x 75/27 field gun and 2x 75/34 anti-tank gun batteries) LXXXI Coastal Artillery Group (75/32 field guns) CLXII Coastal Artillery Group (149/35 heavy guns) CCIX Coastal Artillery Group (100/22 howitzers) 81st Artillery Battery (75/34 anti-tank guns) 106th Mortar Company (81mm Mod. 35 mortars) 426th Mortar Company (81mm Mod. 35 mortars) 268th Anti-tank Company (47/32 anti-tank guns) 288th Artillery Battery (155/36 guns) 455th, 456th, 526th, and 332nd Anti-paratrooper units Brigade Services XIX Coastal Brigade, Generale di Brigata Giovanni Bocchetti - responsible for the coast from the West of Messina to, but excluding, Cefalù 140th Coastal Regiment CI Coastal Battalion CDXLVII Coastal Battalion 179th Coastal Regiment CDXXXV Coastal Battalion D Coastal Battalion 61st Coastal Artillery Grouping Coastal Artillery Group (4x batteries of 75/27 field guns) Coastal Artillery Group (4x batteries of 122/45 howitzers) 128th Coastal Artillery Battery (105/28 howitzers) XV Anti-tank battalion (attached; 47/32 anti-tank guns) 52nd Bersaglieri Motorcyclists Company (attached) 104th Mortar Company (81mm Mod. 35 mortars) 413th Static Mortar Company (81mm Mod. 35 mortars) Brigade Services Harbor Defense Command "H", in Catania -