 Raised along with units dedicated to Tunisia ("Centro T") and the Arabs ("Centro A"), it was tasked to intelligence gathering and sabotage operations behind enemy lines.A part of "Centro I" was renamed "Battaglione Azad Hindoustan" in August 1942 when the "Raggruppamento Centri Militari" itself was redesignated as "Raggruppamento Frecce Rosse" ("Red Arrows group").By the time of its disbandment in November 1942, "Battaglione Azad Hindoustan" came to be between three hundred and fifty and four hundred strong.