133rd Armored Division "Littorio"

133rd Armored Division "Littorio"
133rd Armored Division "Littorio" insignia
Active6 November 1939 - 25 November 1942
Country Kingdom of Italy
Branch Royal Italian Army
TypeArmored
SizeDivision
Part ofXX Army Corps
German-Italian Panzer Army
Garrison/HQParma
EngagementsWorld War II
Italian invasion of France
Invasion of Yugoslavia
First Battle of El Alamein
Battle of Alam el Halfa
Second Battle of El Alamein
Insignia
Identification
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Littorio Division gorget patches

133rd Armored Division "Littorio" (Italian: 133ª Divisione corazzata "Littorio") was an armored division of the Royal Italian Army during World War II. The division's name derives from the fasces (Italian: Fascio littorio) carried by the lictors of ancient Rome, which Benito Mussolini had adopted as symbol of state-power of the fascist regime. Sent to North Africa in January 1942 for the Western Desert Campaign the division was destroyed in the Second battle of El Alamein in November 1942.[1]

  1. ^ Bollettino dell'Archivio dell'Ufficio Storico N.II-3 e 4 2002. Rome: Ministero della Difesa - Stato Maggiore dell’Esercito - Ufficio Storico. 2002. p. 332. Retrieved 23 November 2021.

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