5th Army Corps

5th Army Corps

V Corpo d'Armata

History

Headquarters was located in the hotel 'Terapija' in Crikvenica (Cirquenizza).

After Italian capitulation Yugoslav Partisans managed to capture and disarm many units of the 5th Corps taking huge amount of armament:

80 various artillery pieces

40 mortars with 5000 shells

400 machine-guns

400 light machine-guns

130 sub machine-guns

15000 rifles

300 hand guns

4 million rounds of ammo

40000 hand grenades

5000 kg of explosives

150 trucks

20 passenger cars

30 motorcycles

17 tanks

10 armored cars

1 aircraft

40 radios

500 tons of petrol

700 horses and mules

120 railroad cars of food

uniforms and shoes for 20000 soldiers

etc.

Around 400 Italian soldiers joined Partisans as Garibaldi battalion.

Operations

Operation RISNJAK

Operation VELIKA KAPELA

Operation WEISS

Operation SCHWARZ

War crimes

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Order of battle

12th Infantry Division 'Sassari'

13th Infantry Division 'Re'

15th Infantry Division 'Bergamo'

57th Infantry Division 'Lombardia'

153rd Infantry Division 'Macerata'

154th Infantry Division 'Murge'

14th Coastal Brigade (14a Brig. Costiera)

Commanders

1938 to 1939 - Italo Gariboldi

1939 - Carlo Vecchiarelli

1940 to 1942 - Riccardo Balocco

1942 to 1943 - Renato Coturri

1943 to 4 May 1943 - Alessandro Gloria (1883 â€“ ?)

4 May 1943 - Antonio Scuero (1885 â€“ 1960)

Operations

References

Vladimir DuÅ¡an MatetiÄ‡: 14. primorsko-goranska brigada

Ivan KovaÄiÄ‡: Otok Krk u drugom svjetskom ratu 1941.-1943.