Flechas Azules Mixed Brigade
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In 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, Italians from the Corpo Truppe Volontarie began to serve in mixed Italo-Spanish Flechas (Arrows) units where the Italians provided the officers and technical personnel, while the Spanish served in the rank-and-file. One, the Flechas Azules Mixed Brigade "Blue Arrows" first served in Extremadura from April 1937 to the end of the War in the North.
Order of Battle, April 1937
[edit]Flechas Azules Brigade - Col. Mario Guassardo
- 1st Regimient
- 1st Battalion
- 2nd Battalion
- 3rd Battalion
- 2nd Regimient
- 1st Battalion
- 2nd Battalion
- 3rd Battalion
- Assault Battalion
- 1st Company
- 2nd Company
- Artillery Group
- X Group 75/27
- Battery 20mm AA
Order of Battle, Aragon Front 1938
[edit]Flechas Azules Brigade - Col. Mario Guassardo
- 3rd Regimient
- 1st Battalion
- 2nd Battalion
- 3rd Battalion
- Battery 65/17
- 4th Regimient
- 1st Battalion
- 2nd Battalion
- 3rd Battalion
- Battery 65/17
- Assault Battalion "As"
- Artillery Group
- Xº Group de 75/27
- Bía de 20mm
- Bía de 37mm
- Engineer Company
- Military Police Section
- Intendencia Section
- Sanitation Section
- Division Truck Unit
The Flechas Azules Brigade was later used to form the Flechas Verdes Division and Flechas Azules Division in late 1938.
See also
[edit]Sources
[edit]- de Mesa, José Luis, El regreso de las legiones: (la ayuda militar italiana a la España nacional, 1936-1939), García Hispán, Granada:España, 1994 ISBN 84-87690-33-5