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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Delease''' (''Delegazione Africa Settentrionale'', North Africa Delegation) was a [[colonialism|colonial]] body of the [[Comando Supremo|Supreme Command of the Italian Armed Forces]], with headquarters in [[Tobruk]] and jurisdiction over [[North Africa]], during the [[Second World War]], which served as liaison between the tactical command of [[Panzer Army Africa]] and the Italian Supreme Command in [[Rome]], and managed its [[logistics]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pI7vCwAAQBAJ&dq=delease+delegazione+africa&pg=PT133|title=Italian soldier in North Africa 1941–43|first1=Piero|last1=Crociani|first2=Pier Paolo|last2=Battistelli|date=November 20, 2013|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=9781780968575|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.istitutodelnastroazzurro.org/2020/10/23/1942-africa-settentrionale-el-alamein/|title=Antonio Trogu.1942 Africa Settentrionale. El Alamein – Istituto del Nastro Azzurro|first=Centro Studi|last=Cesvam}}</ref><br />
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Among its commanders were [[Enea Navarini]] and [[Curio Barbasetti di Prun]], who had won the esteem of [[Erwin Rommel]]. As of 23 October 1942 it had the functions of an army command, to which three army corps commands were subordinated, ''Delease1'' ([[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]], responsible for the logistics of [[Tripolitania]]), ''Delease2'' ([[Benghazi]], responsible for the logistics of [[Cyrenaica]]) and ''Delease3'' ([[Marsa Matruh]], responsible for the logistics of the three army corps at the front), as well as the command of the North Africa Intendency, under General Vittorio Palma.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ordersofbattle.darkscape.net/site/ww2/drleo/019_italy/42-10-23/_delease.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905053002/http://www.ordersofbattle.darkscape.net/site/ww2/drleo/019_italy/42-10-23/_delease.html|archive-date=5 September 2012|url-status=dead|title=Delegazione (del Comando) Africa Settentrionale, 23.10.42|access-date=8 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/orazio/docs/rommel_vol2/52|title=Rommel Panzerarmee Afrika #2|website=Issuu}}</ref><br />
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Delease ceased to function on 16 November 1942, after the retreat following the [[second battle of El Alamein]], and its functions were transferred to ''Superlibia'', the High Command in [[Libya]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.giuseppemarchese.it/articoli/art_83/art83.html|title=La Posta Militare Italiana in Tunisia (1942-1943)|date=May 13, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060513065538/http://www.giuseppemarchese.it/articoli/art_83/art83.html|archive-date=2006-05-13}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:1940 establishments in Italy]]<br />
[[Category:1942 disestablishments in Italy]]<br />
[[Category:Royal Italian Army]]<br />
[[Category:North African campaign]]<br />
[[Category:Military history of Italy during World War II]]<br />
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