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</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p>The <b>Axis order of battle for the invasion of Yugoslavia</b> was made up of the various operational <a href="/wiki/Military_organization#Commands,_formations,_and_units" title="Military organization">formations</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">German</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Wehrmacht" title="Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Waffen-SS" title="Waffen-SS">Waffen-SS</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Italian_Armed_Forces" title="Italian Armed Forces">Italian Armed Forces</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Defence_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Hungarian Defence Force">Hungarian Armed Forces</a> that participated in the <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Yugoslavia" title="Invasion of Yugoslavia">invasion of Yugoslavia</a> during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, commencing on 6 April 1941. It involved the German <a href="/wiki/2nd_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="2nd Army (Wehrmacht)">2nd Army</a>, with elements of the <a href="/wiki/12th_Army_(Wehrmacht)" title="12th Army (Wehrmacht)">12th Army</a> and <a href="/wiki/1st_Panzer_Army" title="1st Panzer Army">a panzer group</a> combined with overwhelming <i><a href="/wiki/Luftwaffe" title="Luftwaffe">Luftwaffe</a></i> (German Air Force) support. The eighteen German <a href="/wiki/Division_(military)" title="Division (military)">divisions</a> included five <a href="/wiki/Panzer_division" class="mw-redirect" title="Panzer division">panzer divisions</a>, two <a href="/wiki/Motorised_infantry" class="mw-redirect" title="Motorised infantry">motorised infantry</a> divisions and two <a href="/wiki/Mountain_warfare" title="Mountain warfare">mountain</a> divisions. The German force also included two well-equipped independent motorised regiments and was supported by over 800 aircraft. The <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Italy" title="Kingdom of Italy">Italian</a> <a href="/wiki/Second_Army_(Italy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Army (Italy)">2nd Army</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ninth_Army_(Italy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ninth Army (Italy)">9th Army</a> committed a total of 22 divisions, and the <a href="/wiki/Regia_Aeronautica" title="Regia Aeronautica">Royal Italian Air Force</a> (<a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a>: <i lang="it">Regia Aeronautica</i>) had over 650 aircraft available to support the invasion. The <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary_(1920%E2%80%9346)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Hungary (1920–46)">Hungarian</a> <a href="/wiki/Third_Army_(Hungary)" title="Third Army (Hungary)">3rd Army</a> also participated, with support from the <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Air_Force" title="Hungarian Air Force">Royal Hungarian Air Force</a> (<a href="/wiki/Hungarian_language" title="Hungarian language">Hungarian</a>: <i lang="hu">Magyar Királyi Honvéd Légierő</i>, MKHL). </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Axis_powers" title="Axis powers">Axis</a> ground forces had effectively surrounded the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Yugoslavia" title="Kingdom of Yugoslavia">Kingdom of Yugoslavia</a> before the invasion began. The German 2nd Army, consisting of one motorised, one mountain, and two <a href="/wiki/Infantry" title="Infantry">infantry</a> corps was concentrated in southwestern Hungary and southeastern <a href="/wiki/Austria_in_the_time_of_National_Socialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Austria in the time of National Socialism">Austria</a>, poised to drive south and east. One motorised corps of the German 12th Army was assembled near <a href="/wiki/Sofia" title="Sofia">Sofia</a>, Bulgaria, along with one motorised corps of the First Panzer Group, and these formations were assigned the task of striking the strongest Yugoslav formations stationed along the eastern border of the country. A further motorised corps was deployed near <a href="/wiki/Timi%C8%99oara" title="Timișoara">Timișoara</a> in western <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Romania" title="Kingdom of Romania">Romania</a>, ready to thrust south into the <a href="/wiki/Banat" title="Banat">Banat</a> region. The Italian 2nd Army, consisting of one fast (Italian: <i lang="it">celere</i>) corps, one motorised corps and three infantry corps was assembled in northeastern Italy, with the task of driving southeast down the Dalmatian coast. The Italian 9th Army, comprising two corps and a sector defence command, was stationed in occupied northern <a href="/wiki/Albanian_Kingdom_(1939%E2%80%9343)" class="mw-redirect" title="Albanian Kingdom (1939–43)">Albania</a>, and its stance was largely defensive. The Hungarian 3rd Army was concentrated along the Yugoslav border largely between the <a href="/wiki/Danube" title="Danube">Danube</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Tisza" title="Tisza">Tisza</a>, with the objective of seizing the <a href="/wiki/Ba%C4%8Dka" title="Bačka">Bačka</a> and <a href="/wiki/Baranya_(region)" title="Baranya (region)">Baranja</a> regions. </p><p>German, Italian and Hungarian air support was concentrated in Austria, Italy, southern Hungary, southern Romania, western Bulgaria and Albania. In total, over 1,500 Axis aircraft were available to support the invasion. Naval forces were limited to a few destroyers of the <a href="/wiki/Regia_Marina" title="Regia Marina">Royal Italian Navy</a> (Italian: <i lang="it">Regia Marina</i>) operating in the <a href="/wiki/Adriatic_Sea" title="Adriatic Sea">Adriatic Sea</a>. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886046785">.mw-parser-output .toclimit-2 .toclevel-1 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-3 .toclevel-2 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-4 .toclevel-3 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-5 .toclevel-4 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-6 .toclevel-5 ul,.mw-parser-output .toclimit-7 .toclevel-6 ul{display:none}</style><div class="toclimit-3"><meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="German">German</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: German"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="German_land_forces">German land forces</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: German land forces"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The German formations committed to the invasion of Yugoslavia included over 337,000 men, and more than 2,000 mortars, 1,500 artillery pieces, 1,100 <a href="/wiki/Anti-tank_guns" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-tank guns">anti-tank guns</a>, 875 tanks, and 740 other armoured fighting vehicles.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZajac199350_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZajac199350-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The German land forces were under the overall direction of the commander of the German Army <i><a href="/wiki/Field_Marshal_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="Field Marshal (Germany)">Generalfeldmarschall</a></i> (Field Marshal) <a href="/wiki/Walther_von_Brauchitsch" title="Walther von Brauchitsch">Walther von Brauchitsch</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013g_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013g-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2nd_Army">2nd Army</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 2nd Army"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:150mm_sFH18_howitzer_base_borden_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="a shield-less mid-green artillery piece sitting on a concrete slab" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/150mm_sFH18_howitzer_base_borden_1.jpg/220px-150mm_sFH18_howitzer_base_borden_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/150mm_sFH18_howitzer_base_borden_1.jpg/330px-150mm_sFH18_howitzer_base_borden_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/150mm_sFH18_howitzer_base_borden_1.jpg/440px-150mm_sFH18_howitzer_base_borden_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2410" data-file-height="1550" /></a><figcaption>The German 150mm sFH18 heavy howitzer was used by heavy artillery battalions during the invasion of Yugoslavia</figcaption></figure> <p>The German 2nd Army was commanded by <i><a href="/wiki/Generaloberst" title="Generaloberst">Generaloberst</a></i> (General) <a href="/wiki/Maximilian_von_Weichs" title="Maximilian von Weichs">Maximilian von Weichs</a>, consisted of one motorised, one mountain, and two infantry corps, and was assembled in southwestern <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary_(1920%E2%80%9346)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingdom of Hungary (1920–46)">Hungary</a> and southeastern <a href="/wiki/Austria_in_the_time_of_National_Socialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Austria in the time of National Socialism">Austria</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELennox1997D-1_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELennox1997D-1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army198639–41_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army198639–41-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/LII_Corps_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="LII Corps (Germany)">LII Infantry Corps</a> suffered significant delays in deploying to its assembly area and was initially held in reserve.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army198648–49_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army198648–49-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Schreiber, Stegemann and Vogel, three panzer divisions, four infantry divisions and one motorised infantry division were planned as reserves for the 2nd Army, but they did not participate in the fighting in Yugoslavia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995491_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995491-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Niehorster, these divisions were held as theatre reserves or were allocated to various formations.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013g_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013g-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013h_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013h-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 2nd Army was supported by three bridging battalions and a road construction battalion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013h_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013h-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Composition of German 2nd Army<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995491_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995491-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Corps </th> <th scope="col">Commander </th> <th scope="col">Assembly area </th> <th scope="col">Division </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/XXXXVI_Panzer_Corps" title="XXXXVI Panzer Corps">XXXXVI Motorised</a></div></td> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i><a href="/wiki/General_der_Panzertruppe" title="General der Panzertruppe">General der Panzertruppe</a></i><br /><a href="/wiki/Heinrich_von_Vietinghoff" title="Heinrich von Vietinghoff">Heinrich von Vietinghoff</a></div></td> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Nagykanizsa" title="Nagykanizsa">Nagykanizsa</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army198641_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army198641-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> southwest Hungary</div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/8th_Panzer_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="8th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)">8th Panzer Division</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/14th_Panzer_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="14th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)">14th Panzer Division</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/16th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="16th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">16th Motorised Infantry Division</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/XXXXIX_Mountain_Corps_(Wehrmacht)" title="XXXXIX Mountain Corps (Wehrmacht)">XXXXIX Mountain</a></div></td> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i><a href="/wiki/General_of_the_Infantry_(Germany)" title="General of the Infantry (Germany)">General der Infanterie</a></i><br /><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_K%C3%BCbler" title="Ludwig Kübler">Ludwig Kübler</a></div></td> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">southeast of <a href="/wiki/Klagenfurt" class="mw-redirect" title="Klagenfurt">Klagenfurt</a>, Austria</div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1st_Mountain_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="1st Mountain Division (Wehrmacht)">1st Mountain Division</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/79th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="79th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">79th Infantry Division</a><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/538th_Frontier_Guard_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="538th Frontier Guard Division (Wehrmacht)">538th Frontier Guard Division</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/LI_Corps_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="LI Corps (Germany)">LI Infantry</a></div></td> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i>General der Infanterie</i><br /><a href="/wiki/Hans-Wolfgang_Reinhard" title="Hans-Wolfgang Reinhard">Hans-Wolfgang Reinhard</a></div></td> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Leibnitz" title="Leibnitz">Leibnitz</a>, Austria</div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/101st_J%C3%A4ger_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="101st Jäger Division (Wehrmacht)">101st Light Infantry Division</a><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/132nd_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="132nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">132nd Infantry Division</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/183rd_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="183rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">183rd Infantry Division</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="1"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/LII_Corps_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="LII Corps (Germany)">LII Infantry</a> <sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td> <td rowspan="1"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i>General der Infanterie</i><br /><a href="/wiki/Kurt_von_Briesen" title="Kurt von Briesen">Kurt von Briesen</a></div></td> <td rowspan="1"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Leibnitz, Austria</div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/125th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="125th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">125th Infantry Division</a><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>XXXXVI Motorised Corps was supported by three motorised heavy artillery battalions, a motorised <a href="/wiki/Pioneer_(military)" title="Pioneer (military)">pioneer</a> battalion, a road construction battalion, six bridging columns, and two <i><a href="/wiki/Luftwaffe" title="Luftwaffe">Luftwaffe</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Anti-aircraft_warfare" title="Anti-aircraft warfare">anti-aircraft</a> battalions. XXXXIX Mountain Corps included two motorised heavy artillery battalions and a road construction battalion. LI Infantry Corps included seven motorised heavy artillery battalions, two <a href="/wiki/Assault_gun" title="Assault gun">assault gun</a> battalions, two motorised pioneer battalions, two bridging battalions, two road construction battalions, and twelve bridging columns.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013h_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013h-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="12th_Army">12th Army</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 12th Army"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-158-0094-33,_Balkan,_Sp%C3%A4hpanzer_der_Leibstandarte_Adolf_Hitler.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="An eight-wheeled armoured car on a dirt road with other vehicles in the background" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-158-0094-33%2C_Balkan%2C_Sp%C3%A4hpanzer_der_Leibstandarte_Adolf_Hitler.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-158-0094-33%2C_Balkan%2C_Sp%C3%A4hpanzer_der_Leibstandarte_Adolf_Hitler.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-158-0094-33%2C_Balkan%2C_Sp%C3%A4hpanzer_der_Leibstandarte_Adolf_Hitler.jpg/330px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-158-0094-33%2C_Balkan%2C_Sp%C3%A4hpanzer_der_Leibstandarte_Adolf_Hitler.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-158-0094-33%2C_Balkan%2C_Sp%C3%A4hpanzer_der_Leibstandarte_Adolf_Hitler.jpg/440px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-158-0094-33%2C_Balkan%2C_Sp%C3%A4hpanzer_der_Leibstandarte_Adolf_Hitler.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="548" /></a><figcaption>An eight-wheeled Sd.Kfz. 231 armoured car of the <i>Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler</i> in Yugoslav <a href="/wiki/Macedonia_(region)" title="Macedonia (region)">Macedonia</a> in 1941</figcaption></figure> <p>The German 12th Army was commanded by <i>Generalfeldmarschall</i> <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_List" title="Wilhelm List">Wilhelm List</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZajac199349_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZajac199349-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and consisted of one mountain, three infantry and two motorised corps.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>f<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most of the 12th Army was deployed along the Bulgarian-Greek border in preparation for the <a href="/wiki/Operation_Marita" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Marita">invasion of Greece</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army1986Map_3_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army1986Map_3-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and of the corps commanded by List, only the two motorised corps were committed to the invasion of Yugoslavia. For the first phase of the invasion of Yugoslavia, the <a href="/wiki/1st_Panzer_Army" title="1st Panzer Army">First Panzer Group</a> was also assigned to the 12th Army.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Corps of the 12th Army committed to the invasion of Yugoslavia<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013i_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013i-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Corps </th> <th scope="col">Commander </th> <th scope="col">Assembly area </th> <th scope="col">Division or regiment </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/XXXX_Panzer_Corps" title="XXXX Panzer Corps">XXXX Motorised Corps</a></div></td> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i>General der Panzertruppe</i><br /><a href="/wiki/Georg_Stumme" title="Georg Stumme">Georg Stumme</a></div></td> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Kyustendil" title="Kyustendil">Kyustendil</a><br />southwest of Sofia, Bulgaria</div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/9th_Panzer_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="9th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)">9th Panzer Division</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/73rd_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="73rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">73rd Infantry Division</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1st_SS_Panzer_Division_Leibstandarte_SS_Adolf_Hitler" title="1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler"><i>Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler</i></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/XXXXI_Panzer_Corps" title="XXXXI Panzer Corps">XXXXI Motorised Corps</a></div></td> <td rowspan="2"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i>General der Panzertruppe</i><br /><a href="/wiki/Georg-Hans_Reinhardt" title="Georg-Hans Reinhardt">Georg-Hans Reinhardt</a></div></td> <td rowspan="2"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">near <a href="/wiki/Timi%C8%99oara" title="Timișoara">Timișoara</a>, in western <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Romania" title="Kingdom of Romania">Romania</a></div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2nd_SS_Panzer_Division_Das_Reich" title="2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich">SS Motorised Infantry Division <i>Reich</i></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Panzer-Grenadier-Division_Gro%C3%9Fdeutschland" class="mw-redirect" title="Panzer-Grenadier-Division Großdeutschland"><i>Großdeutschland</i> Motorised Infantry Regiment</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>XXXX Motorised Corps was supported by one motorised anti-tank battalion, three motorised heavy artillery battalions, two motorised pioneer battalions, two bridging battalions, and three motorised bridging columns. XXXXI Motorised Corps included two motorised heavy artillery battalions and a motorised pioneer battalion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013i_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013i-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="First_Panzer_Group">First Panzer Group</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: First Panzer Group"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-185-0137-14A,_Jugoslawien,_Panzer_III_in_Fahrt.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="a black and white photograph of a tank driving along a dusty road" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-185-0137-14A%2C_Jugoslawien%2C_Panzer_III_in_Fahrt.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-185-0137-14A%2C_Jugoslawien%2C_Panzer_III_in_Fahrt.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-185-0137-14A%2C_Jugoslawien%2C_Panzer_III_in_Fahrt.jpg/330px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-185-0137-14A%2C_Jugoslawien%2C_Panzer_III_in_Fahrt.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-185-0137-14A%2C_Jugoslawien%2C_Panzer_III_in_Fahrt.jpg/440px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-185-0137-14A%2C_Jugoslawien%2C_Panzer_III_in_Fahrt.jpg 2x" data-file-width="799" data-file-height="513" /></a><figcaption>German Panzer III tank in Yugoslavia, 1941</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/First_Panzer_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="First Panzer Army">First Panzer Group</a> was commanded by <i>Generaloberst</i> <a href="/wiki/Paul_Ludwig_Ewald_von_Kleist" title="Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist">Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist</a>, and according to Schreiber, Stegemann and Vogel, it consisted of <a href="/wiki/XIV_Panzer_Corps" title="XIV Panzer Corps">XIV Motorised Corps</a> with two panzer divisions, one mountain, one motorised infantry and one infantry division.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489_15-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Niehorster, the XXXXI Motorised Corps was also assigned to First Panzer Group.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013i_16-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013i-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>g<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It assembled northwest of <a href="/wiki/Sofia" title="Sofia">Sofia</a>, Bulgaria.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489_15-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>First Panzer Group<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489_15-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Corps </th> <th scope="col">Commander </th> <th scope="col">Division </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="5"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">XIV Motorised</div></td> <td rowspan="5"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i>General der Infanterie</i><br /><a href="/wiki/Gustav_Anton_von_Wietersheim" title="Gustav Anton von Wietersheim">Gustav Anton von Wietersheim</a></div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/5th_Panzer_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="5th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)">5th Panzer Division</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/11th_Panzer_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="11th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)">11th Panzer Division</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/294th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="294th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">294th Infantry Division</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/4th_Mountain_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="4th Mountain Division (Wehrmacht)">4th Mountain Division</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/60th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="60th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">60th Motorised Infantry Division</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>The First Panzer Group was supported by one motorised heavy artillery battalion, one motorised pioneer battalion, one pioneer battalion, two bridging battalions, and two bridging columns. Supporting units of XIV Motorised Corps included two motorised heavy artillery battalions, a motorised pioneer battalion, two bridging columns and one <i>Luftwaffe</i> motorised anti-aircraft battalion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013i_16-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013i-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Commanders">Commanders</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Commanders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center"> <li class="gallerycaption">Major German formation commanders</li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-E00780,_Walther_von_Brauchitsch.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Brauchitsch was in overall command of German land forces"><img alt="Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Brauchitsch was in overall command of German land forces" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-E00780%2C_Walther_von_Brauchitsch.jpg/135px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-E00780%2C_Walther_von_Brauchitsch.jpg" decoding="async" width="135" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-E00780%2C_Walther_von_Brauchitsch.jpg/202px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-E00780%2C_Walther_von_Brauchitsch.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-E00780%2C_Walther_von_Brauchitsch.jpg/270px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-E00780%2C_Walther_von_Brauchitsch.jpg 2x" data-file-width="598" data-file-height="798" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Generalfeldmarschall</i> Walther von Brauchitsch was in overall command of German land forces</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-056-1643-29A,_Frankreich,_Gener%C3%A4l_v._Weichs.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Generaloberst Maximilian von Weichs commanded the 2nd Army"><img alt="Generaloberst Maximilian von Weichs commanded the 2nd Army" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-056-1643-29A%2C_Frankreich%2C_Gener%C3%A4l_v._Weichs.jpg/134px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-056-1643-29A%2C_Frankreich%2C_Gener%C3%A4l_v._Weichs.jpg" decoding="async" width="134" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-056-1643-29A%2C_Frankreich%2C_Gener%C3%A4l_v._Weichs.jpg/201px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-056-1643-29A%2C_Frankreich%2C_Gener%C3%A4l_v._Weichs.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-056-1643-29A%2C_Frankreich%2C_Gener%C3%A4l_v._Weichs.jpg 2x" data-file-width="214" data-file-height="287" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Generaloberst</i> Maximilian von Weichs commanded the 2nd Army</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Heinrich_von_Vietinghoff.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="General der Panzertruppe Heinrich von Vietinghoff commanded the XXXXVI Motorised Corps"><img alt="General der Panzertruppe Heinrich von Vietinghoff commanded the XXXXVI Motorised Corps" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Heinrich_von_Vietinghoff.jpg/120px-Heinrich_von_Vietinghoff.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Heinrich_von_Vietinghoff.jpg/180px-Heinrich_von_Vietinghoff.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Heinrich_von_Vietinghoff.jpg 2x" data-file-width="219" data-file-height="329" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>General der Panzertruppe</i> Heinrich von Vietinghoff commanded the XXXXVI Motorised Corps</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ludwig_K%C3%BCbler.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="General der Infanterie Ludwig Kübler commanded the XXXXIX Mountain Corps"><img alt="General der Infanterie Ludwig Kübler commanded the XXXXIX Mountain Corps" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Ludwig_K%C3%BCbler.jpg/134px-Ludwig_K%C3%BCbler.jpg" decoding="async" width="134" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Ludwig_K%C3%BCbler.jpg/201px-Ludwig_K%C3%BCbler.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Ludwig_K%C3%BCbler.jpg/268px-Ludwig_K%C3%BCbler.jpg 2x" data-file-width="583" data-file-height="782" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>General der Infanterie</i> Ludwig Kübler commanded the XXXXIX Mountain Corps</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S36487,_Wilhelm_List.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm List commanded the 12th Army"><img alt="Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm List commanded the 12th Army" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S36487%2C_Wilhelm_List.jpg/123px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S36487%2C_Wilhelm_List.jpg" decoding="async" width="123" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S36487%2C_Wilhelm_List.jpg/184px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S36487%2C_Wilhelm_List.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S36487%2C_Wilhelm_List.jpg/246px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-S36487%2C_Wilhelm_List.jpg 2x" data-file-width="546" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Generalfeldmarschall</i> Wilhelm List commanded the 12th Army</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1980-009-34,_Georg_Stumme.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="General der Panzertruppe Georg Stumme commanded the XXXX Motorised Corps"><img alt="General der Panzertruppe Georg Stumme commanded the XXXX Motorised Corps" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1980-009-34%2C_Georg_Stumme.jpg/119px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1980-009-34%2C_Georg_Stumme.jpg" decoding="async" width="119" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1980-009-34%2C_Georg_Stumme.jpg/178px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1980-009-34%2C_Georg_Stumme.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1980-009-34%2C_Georg_Stumme.jpg/238px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1980-009-34%2C_Georg_Stumme.jpg 2x" data-file-width="528" data-file-height="798" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>General der Panzertruppe</i> Georg Stumme commanded the XXXX Motorised Corps</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:BUNDESARCHIV,_Georg-Hans_Reinhardt_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="General der Panzertruppe Georg-Hans Reinhardt commanded the XXXXI Motorised Corps"><img alt="General der Panzertruppe Georg-Hans Reinhardt commanded the XXXXI Motorised Corps" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/BUNDESARCHIV%2C_Georg-Hans_Reinhardt_1.jpg/156px-BUNDESARCHIV%2C_Georg-Hans_Reinhardt_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="156" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/BUNDESARCHIV%2C_Georg-Hans_Reinhardt_1.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="205" data-file-height="236" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>General der Panzertruppe</i> Georg-Hans Reinhardt commanded the XXXXI Motorised Corps</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1986-0210-503,_General_Ewald_von_Kleist.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Generaloberst Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist commanded the First Panzer Group"><img alt="Generaloberst Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist commanded the First Panzer Group" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1986-0210-503%2C_General_Ewald_von_Kleist.jpg/124px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1986-0210-503%2C_General_Ewald_von_Kleist.jpg" decoding="async" width="124" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1986-0210-503%2C_General_Ewald_von_Kleist.jpg/185px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1986-0210-503%2C_General_Ewald_von_Kleist.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1986-0210-503%2C_General_Ewald_von_Kleist.jpg/247px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1986-0210-503%2C_General_Ewald_von_Kleist.jpg 2x" data-file-width="550" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Generaloberst</i> Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist commanded the First Panzer Group</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="German_Air_Force">German Air Force</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: German Air Force"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>Luftwaffe</i> operated out of bases in Austria, Romania and Bulgaria during the invasion of Yugoslavia. In total, the Germans had over 809 aircraft available to support the invasion of Yugoslavia, more than half of which were positioned in Bulgaria to support the simultaneous invasion of Greece. In total, the Germans fielded 296 <a href="/wiki/Fighter_aircraft" title="Fighter aircraft">fighter aircraft</a>, 89 <a href="/wiki/Light_bomber" title="Light bomber">light bombers</a>, 26 <a href="/wiki/Medium_bomber" title="Medium bomber">medium bombers</a> and 23 <a href="/wiki/Reconnaissance_aircraft" title="Reconnaissance aircraft">reconnaissance aircraft</a>, and more than 318 <a href="/wiki/Dive_bomber" title="Dive bomber">dive bombers</a> and 57 <a href="/wiki/Heavy_fighter" title="Heavy fighter">heavy fighters</a>. In addition, a reconnaissance squadron equipped with <a href="/wiki/Henschel_Hs_126" title="Henschel Hs 126">Henschel Hs 126</a> two-seater reconnaissance aircraft was attached to most of the corps headquarters and every <a href="/wiki/Panzer_division" class="mw-redirect" title="Panzer division">panzer division</a> of the German ground forces.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Luftwaffe</i> anti-aircraft units were also attached to the German land forces.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="4th_Air_Fleet">4th Air Fleet</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 4th Air Fleet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-363-2258-11,_Flugzeug_Junkers_Ju_88.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="a twin engined aircraft in flight" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-363-2258-11%2C_Flugzeug_Junkers_Ju_88.jpg/250px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-363-2258-11%2C_Flugzeug_Junkers_Ju_88.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-363-2258-11%2C_Flugzeug_Junkers_Ju_88.jpg/375px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-363-2258-11%2C_Flugzeug_Junkers_Ju_88.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-363-2258-11%2C_Flugzeug_Junkers_Ju_88.jpg/500px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-363-2258-11%2C_Flugzeug_Junkers_Ju_88.jpg 2x" data-file-width="719" data-file-height="462" /></a><figcaption>Junkers Ju 88A divebombers were operated by the 51st Bomber Wing</figcaption></figure> <p>The <i>Luftwaffe</i> <a href="/wiki/Luftflotte_4" title="Luftflotte 4">4th Air Fleet</a> (German: <i lang="de">Luftflotte</i> IV) was commanded by <i><a href="/wiki/General_der_Flieger" title="General der Flieger">General der Flieger</a></i> (Lieutenant General) <a href="/wiki/Alexander_L%C3%B6hr" title="Alexander Löhr">Alexander Löhr</a>, had its headquarters in <a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army198639_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army198639-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and direct command units based on airfields in western Austria. These units included one <a href="/wiki/Squadron_(aviation)" title="Squadron (aviation)">squadron</a> (German: <i lang="de">Staffel</i>) of the <a href="/wiki/Aufkl%C3%A4rungsgruppe_121" title="Aufklärungsgruppe 121">121st Reconnaissance Group</a> (German: <i lang="de">Aufklärungsgruppe</i> 121), the entire <a href="/wiki/Kampfgeschwader_51" title="Kampfgeschwader 51">51st Bomber Wing</a> (German: <i lang="de">Kampfgeschwader</i> 51, KG 51), and four <a href="/wiki/Kampfgruppen" class="mw-redirect" title="Kampfgruppen">bomber groups</a> (German: <i lang="de">Kampfgruppen</i>) drawn from the <a href="/wiki/Kampfgeschwader_2" title="Kampfgeschwader 2">2nd</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kampfgeschwader_3" title="Kampfgeschwader 3">3rd</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kampfgeschwader_4" title="Kampfgeschwader 4">4th</a> Bomber Wings (KG 2, KG 3 and KG 4). In total, the 4th Air Fleet had 25 medium bombers, 89 light bombers, 55 dive bombers, 6 reconnaissance aircraft and 1 heavy fighter available in Austria to support the invasion of Yugoslavia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Composition of 4th Air Fleet<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181_20-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j_21-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Unit </th> <th scope="col">Location </th> <th scope="col">Aircraft type </th></tr> <tr> <td>4th Squadron/121st Long Range Reconnaissance Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Gerasdorf_bei_Wien" title="Gerasdorf bei Wien">Seyring</a></div></td> <td>6 × <a href="/wiki/Junkers_Ju_88" title="Junkers Ju 88">Junkers Ju 88</a>D long-range photo-reconnaissance aircraft<br />1 × <a href="/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_110" title="Messerschmitt Bf 110">Messerschmitt Bf 110</a>C heavy fighter </td></tr> <tr> <td>Headquarters 2nd Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Zw%C3%B6lfaxing" title="Zwölfaxing">Zwölfaxing</a></div></td> <td>6 × <a href="/wiki/Dornier_Do_17" title="Dornier Do 17">Dornier Do 17</a>Z light bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>I Group/2nd Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Zwölfaxing</div></td> <td>28 × Dornier Do 17Z light bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>III Group/2nd Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Zwölfaxing</div></td> <td>29 × Dornier Do 17Z light bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>III Group/3rd Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/M%C3%BCnchendorf" title="Münchendorf">Münchendorf</a></div></td> <td>26 × Dornier Do 17Z light bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>II Group/4th Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Aspern" title="Aspern">Aspern</a></div></td> <td>25 × <a href="/wiki/Heinkel_He_111" title="Heinkel He 111">Heinkel He 111</a>P medium bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>Headquarters 51st Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Wiener_Neustadt" title="Wiener Neustadt">Wiener Neustadt</a></div></td> <td>1 × Junkers Ju 88A dive bomber </td></tr> <tr> <td>I Group/51st Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Wiener Neustadt</div></td> <td>17 × Junkers Ju 88A dive bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>II Group/51st Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Wiener Neustadt</div></td> <td>18 × Junkers Ju 88A dive bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>III Group/51st Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Vienna_International_Airport" title="Vienna International Airport">Schwechat</a></div></td> <td>19 × Junkers Ju 88A dive bombers </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Fliegerführer_Graz"><span id="Fliegerf.C3.BChrer_Graz"></span><i>Fliegerführer Graz</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Fliegerführer Graz"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Fliegerführer Graz</i> was commanded by <i><a href="/wiki/Oberstleutnant" title="Oberstleutnant">Oberstleutnant</a></i> (Lieutenant Colonel) <a href="/wiki/Karl_Christ" title="Karl Christ">Karl Christ</a>, commander of the <a href="/wiki/Sturzkampfgeschwader_3" title="Sturzkampfgeschwader 3">3rd Dive Bomber Wing</a> (German: <i lang="de">Sturzkampfgeschwader</i> 3, StG 3). It was located in <a href="/wiki/Graz" title="Graz">Graz</a>, Austria, and consisted of the headquarters and II Group of StG 3, the headquarters and II Group (German: <i lang="de">Jagdgruppe</i>) of the <a href="/wiki/Jagdgeschwader_54" title="Jagdgeschwader 54">54th Fighter Wing</a> (German: <i lang="de">Jagdgeschwader</i> 54, JG 54) (less one squadron), and I Group of the <a href="/wiki/Jagdgeschwader_27" title="Jagdgeschwader 27">27th Fighter Wing</a> (JG 27). In total, <i>Fliegerführer Graz</i> had 54 fighters, 1 medium bomber and 35 dive bombers available to support the invasion of Yugoslavia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181_20-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j_21-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Composition of <i>Fliegerführer Graz</i><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181_20-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j_21-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Unit </th> <th scope="col">Aircraft type </th></tr> <tr> <td>Headquarters 3rd Dive Bomber Wing</td> <td>1 × <a href="/wiki/Junkers_Ju_87" title="Junkers Ju 87">Junkers Ju 87</a>B dive bomber<br />1 x Heinkel He 111H medium bomber </td></tr> <tr> <td>II Group/3rd Dive Bomber Wing</td> <td>34 × Junkers Ju 87B dive bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>Headquarters 54th Fighter Wing</td> <td>3 × <a href="/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_109" title="Messerschmitt Bf 109">Messerschmitt Bf 109</a>E fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>II Group/54th Fighter Wing (part)</td> <td>24 × Messerschmitt Bf 109E fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>I Group/27th Fighter Wing</td> <td>27 × Messerschmitt Bf 109E fighters </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Fliegerführer_Arad"><span id="Fliegerf.C3.BChrer_Arad"></span><i>Fliegerführer Arad</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Fliegerführer Arad"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Fliegerführer Arad</i> was commanded by <i>Oberstleutnant</i> <a href="/wiki/Clemens_Graf_von_Sch%C3%B6nborn-Wiesentheid" title="Clemens Graf von Schönborn-Wiesentheid">Clemens Graf von Schönborn-Wiesentheid</a>, commander of the <a href="/wiki/Sturzkampfgeschwader_77" title="Sturzkampfgeschwader 77">77th Dive Bomber Wing</a> (StG 77). With its headquarters in <a href="/wiki/Arad,_Romania" title="Arad, Romania">Arad, Romania</a>, it consisted of the headquarters, I and III Groups of StG 77, headquarters, II and III Groups of the <a href="/wiki/Jagdgeschwader_77" title="Jagdgeschwader 77">77th Fighter Wing</a> (JG 77), one squadron of II Group of JG 54, III Group of JG 54 and I Group of the <a href="/wiki/Zerst%C3%B6rergeschwader_26" title="Zerstörergeschwader 26">26th Heavy Fighter Wing</a> (German: <i lang="de">Zerstörergeschwader</i> 26, ZG 26). In total, <i>Fliegerführer Arad</i> had 116 fighters, 31 heavy fighters and 68 dive bombers available to support the invasion of Yugoslavia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181_20-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j_21-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Composition of <i>Fliegerführer Arad</i><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181_20-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j_21-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Unit </th> <th scope="col">Location </th> <th scope="col">Aircraft type </th></tr> <tr> <td>Headquarters 77th Dive Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Arad</div></td> <td>3 × Junkers Ju 87B dive bombers<br />4 × Messerschmitt Bf 109E fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>I Group/77th Dive Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Arad</div></td> <td>33 × Junkers Ju 87B dive bombers<br />1 × Messerschmitt Bf 110C heavy fighter </td></tr> <tr> <td>III Group/77th Dive Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Arad</div></td> <td>32 × Junkers Ju 87B dive bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>Headquarters 77th Fighter Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Deta,_Romania" title="Deta, Romania">Deta, Romania</a></div></td> <td>6 × Messerschmitt Bf 109E fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>II Group/77th Fighter Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Deta</div></td> <td>34 × Messerschmitt Bf 109E fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>III Group/77th Fighter Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Deta</div></td> <td>33 × Messerschmitt Bf 109E fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>4th Squadron/II Group/54th Fighter Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Arad</div></td> <td>Messerschmitt Bf 109E fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>III Group/54th Fighter Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Arad</div></td> <td>39 × Messerschmitt Bf 109E fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>I Group/26th Heavy Fighter Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Szeged" title="Szeged">Szeged</a>, Hungary</div></td> <td>30 × Messerschmitt Bf 110C/D heavy fighters </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="VIII_Air_Corps">VIII Air Corps</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: VIII Air Corps"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Henschel_Hs_123_in_flight.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="a biplane with Nazi German markings in flight" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Henschel_Hs_123_in_flight.jpg/250px-Henschel_Hs_123_in_flight.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Henschel_Hs_123_in_flight.jpg/375px-Henschel_Hs_123_in_flight.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Henschel_Hs_123_in_flight.jpg/500px-Henschel_Hs_123_in_flight.jpg 2x" data-file-width="746" data-file-height="529" /></a><figcaption>Henschel Hs 123 dive bombers were operated by the 10th Dive Bomber Squadron of the 2nd Demonstration Wing</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/8th_Air_Corps_(Germany)" title="8th Air Corps (Germany)">VIII Air Corps</a> (German: <i lang="de">Fliegerkorps</i> VIII) was commanded by <i>General der Flieger</i> <a href="/wiki/Wolfram_Freiherr_von_Richthofen" class="mw-redirect" title="Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen">Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen</a>, who had operational control of all air operations for the invasion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army198639_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army198639-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With its headquarters in <a href="/wiki/Blagoevgrad" title="Blagoevgrad">Gorna Dzhumaya</a>, Bulgaria, it was based at various airfields in western Bulgaria, and consisted of one squadron of the <a href="/wiki/Aufkl%C3%A4rungsgruppe_11" title="Aufklärungsgruppe 11">11th Reconnaissance Group</a>, the headquarters, I and II Groups of the 2nd Dive Bomber Wing (StG 2), I Group of StG 3, the headquarters, II and III Groups of the 27th Fighter Wing, a fighter group and a ground attack group from the <a href="/wiki/Lehrgeschwader_1" title="Lehrgeschwader 1">1st Demonstration Wing</a> (German: <i lang="de">Lehrgeschwader</i> 1, LG 1), and a reinforced dive bomber group from the <a href="/wiki/Lehrgeschwader_2" title="Lehrgeschwader 2">2nd Demonstration Wing</a>. In total, the VIII Air Corps had 126 fighters and 17 reconnaissance aircraft, and more than 25 heavy fighters and 160 dive bombers available to support the invasions of both Yugoslavia and Greece.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181_20-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j_21-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Composition of VIII Air Corps<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181_20-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j_21-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Unit </th> <th scope="col">Location </th> <th scope="col">Aircraft type </th></tr> <tr> <td>Headquarters 2nd Dive Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Belitsa_Municipality" title="Belitsa Municipality">Belitsa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dupnitsa" title="Dupnitsa">Krainici</a></div></td> <td>4 × Junkers Ju 87B dive bombers<br />6 × Dornier Do 17P long-range photo-reconnaissance aircraft </td></tr> <tr> <td>I Group/2nd Dive Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Belitsa and Krainici</div></td> <td>30 × Junkers Ju 87B dive bombers<br />9 × Junkers Ju 87R long-range dive bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>III Group/2nd Dive Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Belitsa and Krainici</div></td> <td>35 × Junkers Ju 87B dive bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>I Group/3rd Dive Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Belitsa</div></td> <td>30 × Junkers Ju 87B dive bombers<br />9 × Junkers Ju 87R long-range dive bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>I Group/1st Dive Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Krainici</div></td> <td>23 × Junkers Ju 87R long-range dive bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>II Dive Bomber Group/2nd Demonstration Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Vrazhdebna_Air_Base" title="Vrazhdebna Air Base">Vrazhdebna</a></div></td> <td>23 × Messerschmitt Bf 109E fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>10th Dive Bomber Squadron/2nd Demonstration Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Krainici</div></td> <td>20 × <a href="/wiki/Henschel_Hs_123" title="Henschel Hs 123">Henschel Hs 123</a>A biplane dive bomber </td></tr> <tr> <td>II Group/26th Heavy Fighter Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Kraishte and Vrazhdebna</div></td> <td>25 × Messerschmitt Bf 110C/E heavy fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>Headquarters 27th Fighter Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Belitsa and <a href="/wiki/Sofia" title="Sofia">Sofia</a></div></td> <td>5 × Messerschmitt Bf 109E fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>II Group/27th Fighter Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Belitsa and Sofia</div></td> <td>37 × Messerschmitt Bf 109E fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>III Group/27th Fighter Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Belitsa and Sofia</div></td> <td>39 × Messerschmitt Bf 109E fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>I Fighter Group/2nd Demonstration Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Vrazhdebna</div></td> <td>22 × Messerschmitt Bf 109E fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>I Group/1st Demonstration Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Vrazhdebna</div></td> <td>Junkers Ju 88A dive bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>2nd Squadron/11th Long Range Reconnaissance Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Sofia</div></td> <td>11 × Dornier Do 17P long-range photo-reconnaissance aircraft </td></tr> <tr> <td>7th Squadron/2nd Demonstration Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Vrazhdebna</div></td> <td>Messerschmitt Bf 110C heavy fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>7th Sea Rescue Squadron</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Varna_Airport" title="Varna Airport">Varna</a></div></td> <td>various <a href="/wiki/Floatplane" title="Floatplane">floatplanes</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>IV Group/1st Transport Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Plovdiv_Airport" title="Plovdiv Airport">Krumovo</a></div></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Junkers_Ju_52" title="Junkers Ju 52">Junkers Ju 52</a>/3m transport aircraft </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="X_Air_Corps">X Air Corps</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: X Air Corps"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/10th_Air_Corps_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="10th Air Corps (Germany)">X Air Corps</a> (German: <i lang="de">Fliegerkorps</i> X) was based in <a href="/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily">Sicily</a>, and consisted of four bomber groups, one heavy fighter group and one fighter squadron with a total of 168 aircraft.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarefield199348_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarefield199348-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was available to provide on-call support to the 4th Air Fleet as required,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZajac199350_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZajac199350-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but only a few units played any part in supporting the invasion because the primary task of X Air Corps was interdicting <a href="/wiki/Malta_Convoys" class="mw-redirect" title="Malta Convoys">Allied supply convoys to Malta</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987170_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987170-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Units earmarked for support to the invasion included 7th Squadron of <a href="/wiki/Jagdgeschwader_26" title="Jagdgeschwader 26">26th Fighter Wing</a> (JG 26) equipped with Messerschmitt Bf 109E fighters, and III Group of ZG 26, flying Messerschmitt Bf 110C/D heavy fighters.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987213_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987213-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Commanders_2">Commanders</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Commanders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center"> <li class="gallerycaption">Major German Luftwaffe commanders</li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-2008-0915-500,_Alexander_L%C3%B6hr.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="General der Flieger Alexander Löhr commanded the 4th Air Fleet during the invasion"><img alt="General der Flieger Alexander Löhr commanded the 4th Air Fleet during the invasion" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-2008-0915-500%2C_Alexander_L%C3%B6hr.jpg/109px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-2008-0915-500%2C_Alexander_L%C3%B6hr.jpg" decoding="async" width="109" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-2008-0915-500%2C_Alexander_L%C3%B6hr.jpg/163px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-2008-0915-500%2C_Alexander_L%C3%B6hr.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-2008-0915-500%2C_Alexander_L%C3%B6hr.jpg/218px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-2008-0915-500%2C_Alexander_L%C3%B6hr.jpg 2x" data-file-width="485" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>General der Flieger</i> Alexander Löhr commanded the 4th Air Fleet during the invasion</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Portr%C3%A4t_Generalmajor_Wolfram_Freiherr_von_Richthofen,_sitzend_Bild_183-J1005-0502-001_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="General der Flieger Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen commanded the VIII Air Corps"><img alt="General der Flieger Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen commanded the VIII Air Corps" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Portr%C3%A4t_Generalmajor_Wolfram_Freiherr_von_Richthofen%2C_sitzend_Bild_183-J1005-0502-001_%28cropped%29.jpg/132px-Portr%C3%A4t_Generalmajor_Wolfram_Freiherr_von_Richthofen%2C_sitzend_Bild_183-J1005-0502-001_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="132" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Portr%C3%A4t_Generalmajor_Wolfram_Freiherr_von_Richthofen%2C_sitzend_Bild_183-J1005-0502-001_%28cropped%29.jpg/198px-Portr%C3%A4t_Generalmajor_Wolfram_Freiherr_von_Richthofen%2C_sitzend_Bild_183-J1005-0502-001_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Portr%C3%A4t_Generalmajor_Wolfram_Freiherr_von_Richthofen%2C_sitzend_Bild_183-J1005-0502-001_%28cropped%29.jpg/265px-Portr%C3%A4t_Generalmajor_Wolfram_Freiherr_von_Richthofen%2C_sitzend_Bild_183-J1005-0502-001_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2229" data-file-height="3032" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>General der Flieger</i> Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen commanded the VIII Air Corps</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Italian">Italian</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Italian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Italian_ground_forces">Italian ground forces</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Italian ground forces"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Italian <a href="/wiki/Second_Army_(Italy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Army (Italy)">2nd Army</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ninth_Army_(Italy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ninth Army (Italy)">9th Army</a> committed a total of 22 divisions to the operation,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013a_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013a-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> comprising around 300,000 troops.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKrzak2006573_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKrzak2006573-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Italian ground forces included the Italian garrison of <a href="/wiki/Zadar" title="Zadar">Zara</a>, which was an Italian enclave on the <a href="/wiki/Dalmatia" title="Dalmatia">Dalmatian</a> coast.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013d_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013d-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2nd_Army_2">2nd Army</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: 2nd Army"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Obice149-13.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="an artillery piece with no gun shield standing on gravel" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Obice149-13.jpg/220px-Obice149-13.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Obice149-13.jpg/330px-Obice149-13.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Obice149-13.jpg/440px-Obice149-13.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>The World War I-vintage <a href="/wiki/15_cm_schwere_Feldhaubitze_M_14" title="15 cm schwere Feldhaubitze M 14"><i>Obice</i> 149/13</a> heavy howitzer was used by several Italian artillery battalions during the invasion of Yugoslavia</figcaption></figure> <p>The Italian 2nd Army (Italian: <i lang="it">2° Armata</i>) was commanded by <i><a href="/wiki/General" class="mw-redirect" title="General">Generale d’Armata</a></i> (General) <a href="/wiki/Vittorio_Ambrosio" title="Vittorio Ambrosio">Vittorio Ambrosio</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoi197832_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoi197832-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and consisted of one fast (Italian: <i lang="it">celere</i>) corps, one motorised corps and three infantry corps, and was assembled in northeastern Italy.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJowett20009_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJowett20009-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoi197851–54_&_186_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoi197851–54_&_186-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 2nd Army was supported by a motorised engineer regiment including three bridging battalions, a chemical battalion, fifteen territorial battalions, and two garrison battalions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013b_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013b-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Composition of Italian 2nd Army<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013b_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013b-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Corps </th> <th scope="col">Commander </th> <th scope="col">Division </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Celere_Corps" class="mw-redirect" title="Celere Corps"><i>Celere</i> Corps</a></div></td> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i><a href="/wiki/Generale_di_Corpo_d%27Armata" class="mw-redirect" title="Generale di Corpo d'Armata">Generale di Corpo d'Armata</a></i><br /><a href="/wiki/Federico_Ferrari_Orsi" title="Federico Ferrari Orsi">Federico Ferrari Orsi</a></div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1st_Cavalry_Division_%22Eugenio_di_Savoia%22" title="1st Cavalry Division "Eugenio di Savoia"">1st Cavalry Division "Eugenio di Savoia"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2nd_Cavalry_Division_%22Emanuele_Filiberto_Testa_di_Ferro%22" title="2nd Cavalry Division "Emanuele Filiberto Testa di Ferro"">2nd Cavalry Division "Emanuele Filiberto Testa di Ferro"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/3rd_Cavalry_Division_%22Principe_Amedeo_Duca_d%27Aosta%22" title="3rd Cavalry Division "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta"">3rd Cavalry Division "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/V_Corps_(Italy)" class="mw-redirect" title="V Corps (Italy)">V Corps</a></div></td> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i><a href="/wiki/Major_general" title="Major general">Generale di Divisione</a></i><br /><a href="/wiki/Riccardo_Balocco" title="Riccardo Balocco">Riccardo Balocco</a></div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/15th_Infantry_Division_%22Bergamo%22" title="15th Infantry Division "Bergamo"">15th Infantry Division "Bergamo"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/57th_Infantry_Division_%22Lombardia%22" title="57th Infantry Division "Lombardia"">57th Infantry Division "Lombardia"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Guardia_alla_Frontiera" title="Guardia alla Frontiera">Guardia alla Frontiera</a> (Border Guard)<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>h<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/VI_Corps_(Italy)" class="mw-redirect" title="VI Corps (Italy)">VI Corps</a></div></td> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i>Generale di Corpo d'Armata</i><br /><a href="/wiki/Lorenzo_Dalmazzo" class="mw-redirect" title="Lorenzo Dalmazzo">Lorenzo Dalmazzo</a></div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/12th_Infantry_Division_%22Sassari%22" title="12th Infantry Division "Sassari"">12th Infantry Division "Sassari"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/20th_Infantry_Division_%22Friuli%22" title="20th Infantry Division "Friuli"">20th Infantry Division "Friuli"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/26th_Infantry_Division_%22Assietta%22" title="26th Infantry Division "Assietta"">26th Infantry Division "Assietta"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="5"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/XI_Corps_(Italy)" class="mw-redirect" title="XI Corps (Italy)">XI Corps</a></div></td> <td rowspan="5"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i>Generale di Divisione</i><br /><a href="/wiki/Mario_Robotti" title="Mario Robotti">Mario Robotti</a></div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/3rd_Infantry_Division_%22Ravenna%22" title="3rd Infantry Division "Ravenna"">3rd Infantry Division "Ravenna"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/13th_Infantry_Division_%22Re%22" title="13th Infantry Division "Re"">13th Infantry Division "Re"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/14th_Infantry_Division_%22Isonzo%22" title="14th Infantry Division "Isonzo"">14th Infantry Division "Isonzo"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Guardia alla Frontiera (Border Guard)<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>i<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/3rd_Alpine_Group" title="3rd Alpine Group">3rd Alpine Group</a><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>j<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Motorised_Corps_(Italy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Motorised Corps (Italy)">Motorised Corps</a></div></td> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i>Generale di Corpo d'Armata</i><br /><a href="/wiki/Francesco_Zingales" title="Francesco Zingales">Francesco Zingales</a></div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/9th_Infantry_Division_%22Pasubio%22" title="9th Infantry Division "Pasubio"">9th Infantry Division "Pasubio"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/52nd_Infantry_Division_%22Torino%22" title="52nd Infantry Division "Torino"">52nd Infantry Division "Torino"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/133rd_Armored_Division_%22Littorio%22" title="133rd Armored Division "Littorio"">133rd Armoured Division "Littorio"</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F016230-0009,_Bersaglieri_in_Jugoslawien.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="black and white photograph of a military car and two motorcycles with dismounted soldiers, some with a plume of feathers attached to their helmets" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F016230-0009%2C_Bersaglieri_in_Jugoslawien.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F016230-0009%2C_Bersaglieri_in_Jugoslawien.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F016230-0009%2C_Bersaglieri_in_Jugoslawien.jpg/330px-Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F016230-0009%2C_Bersaglieri_in_Jugoslawien.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F016230-0009%2C_Bersaglieri_in_Jugoslawien.jpg/440px-Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F016230-0009%2C_Bersaglieri_in_Jugoslawien.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="485" /></a><figcaption>German troops and Italian Bersaglieri in Yugoslavia, 1941</figcaption></figure> <p>V Corps support units included three motorised artillery regiments comprising thirteen battalions, four machine gun battalions (two motorised and two pack animal), three <a href="/wiki/Blackshirts" title="Blackshirts">Blackshirt</a> legions of battalion size, a motorised anti-aircraft battalion, a sapper assault battalion and a road construction battalion. VI Corps included four motorised artillery regiments with a total of sixteen battalions, two machine gun battalions (one motorised, one pack animal) and a motorised anti-aircraft regiment. XI Corps included one motorised artillery regiment comprising four battalions, three machine gun battalions (one motorised, one pack animal and one static), and six Blackshirt legions of battalion size. The Motorised Corps was supported by a motorised artillery regiment consisting of three battalions, and a motorised engineer battalion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013b_32-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013b-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="9th_Army">9th Army</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: 9th Army"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The elements of the Italian 9th Army (Italian: <i lang="it">9° Armata</i>) that were involved in the campaign were commanded by <i>Generale d’Armata</i> (General) <a href="/wiki/Alessandro_Pirzio_Biroli" title="Alessandro Pirzio Biroli">Alessandro Pirzio Biroli</a>, and consisted of two infantry corps and some sector troops assembled in northern Albania.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJowett200010_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJowett200010-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoi197876_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoi197876-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Elements of Italian 9th Army<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013c_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013c-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" width="20%">Corps </th> <th scope="col" width="30%">Commander </th> <th scope="col" width="35%">Division </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/XIV_Corps_(Italy)" class="mw-redirect" title="XIV Corps (Italy)">XIV Corps</a></div></td> <td rowspan="2"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i>Generale di Divisione</i><br /><a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Vecchi" title="Giovanni Vecchi">Giovanni Vecchi</a></div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/38th_Infantry_Division_%22Puglie%22" title="38th Infantry Division "Puglie"">38th Infantry Division "Puglie"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/4th_Alpine_Division_%22Cuneense%22" title="4th Alpine Division "Cuneense"">4th Alpine Division "Cuneense"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/XVII_Corps_(Italy)" class="mw-redirect" title="XVII Corps (Italy)">XVII Corps</a></div></td> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i>Generale di Corpo d'Armata</i><br /><a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Pafundi" title="Giuseppe Pafundi">Giuseppe Pafundi</a></div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/18th_Infantry_Division_%22Messina%22" title="18th Infantry Division "Messina"">18th Infantry Division "Messina"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/32nd_Infantry_Division_%22Marche%22" title="32nd Infantry Division "Marche"">32nd Infantry Division "Marche"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/131st_Armored_Division_%22Centauro%22" title="131st Armored Division "Centauro"">131st Armoured Division "Centauro"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Librazhd_Sector" title="Librazhd Sector"><i>Librazhd</i> Sector</a></div></td> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i>Generale di Corpo d'Armata</i><br /><a href="/wiki/Gabriele_Nasci" title="Gabriele Nasci">Gabriele Nasci</a></div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/53rd_Infantry_Division_%22Arezzo%22" title="53rd Infantry Division "Arezzo"">53rd Infantry Division "Arezzo"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/41st_Infantry_Division_%22Firenze%22" title="41st Infantry Division "Firenze"">41st Infantry Division "Firenze"</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/24th_Infantry_Division_%22Pinerolo%22" title="24th Infantry Division "Pinerolo"">24th Infantry Division "Pinerolo"</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:M13_40_CFB_Borden_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="a dark green painted tank standing on a concrete slab inside a building" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/M13_40_CFB_Borden_1.jpg/220px-M13_40_CFB_Borden_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/M13_40_CFB_Borden_1.jpg/330px-M13_40_CFB_Borden_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/M13_40_CFB_Borden_1.jpg/440px-M13_40_CFB_Borden_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a><figcaption>The Fiat M13/40 light tank was employed by the 131st Armoured Division <i>Centauro</i> and other Italian units during the invasion</figcaption></figure> <p>XIV Corps was supported by a cavalry regiment, three Border Guard battalions, a Finance Guard battalion and two military police (Italian: <i lang="it">Carabinieri Reali</i>) battalions. The XVII Corps included the <i>Diamanti</i> Blackshirt group which incorporated six Blackshirt regiments comprising two battalions each, the Albanian-raised <i>Skanderbeg</i> Blackshirt regiment of two battalions, another Blackshirt regiment of two battalions, a cavalry regiment, a <i><a href="/wiki/Bersaglieri" title="Bersaglieri">Bersaglieri</a></i> motorcycle battalion, three Border Guard battalions, one Finance Guard battalion, a motorised artillery regiment of three battalions, a military police battalion, and a tank company equipped with <a href="/wiki/Fiat_M13/40" class="mw-redirect" title="Fiat M13/40">Fiat M13/40</a> light tanks. The <i>Librazhd</i> Sector included a motorised artillery regiment of four battalions, a bicycle-mounted <i>Bersaglieri</i> regiment, a cavalry regiment, the <i>Biscaccianti</i> Blackshirt group which incorporated two Blackshirt regiments with a total of five battalions, the regimental-sized <i>Agostini</i> Blackshirt Forest Militia, and the <i>Briscotto</i> group, a regimental-sized formation consisting of one <i>Alpini</i> battalion and two Finance Guard battalions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013c_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013c-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Zara_garrison">Zara garrison</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Zara garrison"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Zara" title="Province of Zara">Zara</a> garrison numbered about 9,000 men under the overall command of <i>Generale di Brigata</i> (Brigadier) Emilio Giglioli.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoi197867_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELoi197867-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The garrison consisted of two main groupings and an assortment of supporting units. The two main groupings were the regimental-sized <i>Fronte a Terra</i> (Land Front), which comprised three static machine gun battalions and a bicycle-mounted <i>Bersaglieri</i> battalion, and the battalion-strength <i>Fronte a Mare</i> (Sea Front), which consisted of two machine gun companies, an anti-aircraft battery, a coastal artillery battery and a naval artillery battery. Supporting units consisted of an artillery regiment of three battalions, two independent artillery battalions, a machine gun battalion, a motorised anti-aircraft battalion (less one battery), an engineer battalion, a company of Blackshirts, and a company of <a href="/wiki/L3/35" title="L3/35">L3/35</a> tankettes.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013d_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013d-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Commanders_3">Commanders</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Commanders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center"> <li class="gallerycaption">Major Italian commanders</li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:VittorioAmbrosio.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Generale d’Armata Vittorio Ambrosio commanded the Italian 2nd Army during the invasion"><img alt="Generale d’Armata Vittorio Ambrosio commanded the Italian 2nd Army during the invasion" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/VittorioAmbrosio.jpg/132px-VittorioAmbrosio.jpg" decoding="async" width="132" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/VittorioAmbrosio.jpg/198px-VittorioAmbrosio.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/VittorioAmbrosio.jpg/264px-VittorioAmbrosio.jpg 2x" data-file-width="295" data-file-height="402" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Generale d’Armata</i> <a href="/wiki/Vittorio_Ambrosio" title="Vittorio Ambrosio">Vittorio Ambrosio</a> commanded the Italian 2nd Army during the invasion</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 215px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 210px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Alessandro_Pirzio_Biroli.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Generale d’Armata Alessandro Pirzio Biroli commanded the Italian 9th Army during the invasion"><img alt="Generale d’Armata Alessandro Pirzio Biroli commanded the Italian 9th Army during the invasion" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Alessandro_Pirzio_Biroli.jpg/144px-Alessandro_Pirzio_Biroli.jpg" decoding="async" width="144" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Alessandro_Pirzio_Biroli.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="196" data-file-height="244" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Generale d’Armata</i> <a href="/wiki/Alessandro_Pirzio_Biroli" title="Alessandro Pirzio Biroli">Alessandro Pirzio Biroli</a> commanded the Italian 9th Army during the invasion</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Royal_Italian_Air_Force">Royal Italian Air Force</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Royal Italian Air Force"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Regia_Aeronautica" title="Regia Aeronautica">Royal Italian Air Force</a> (Italian: <i lang="it">Regia Aeronautica</i>) operated out of bases in southeastern and northeastern Italy and Albania during the invasion of Yugoslavia. In total, the Italians had 658 aircraft available to support the invasion, 222 of which were positioned in Albania to also support the German invasion of Greece. These aircraft comprised 296 fighter aircraft, 40 dive bombers, 192 medium bombers, 12 bomber floatplanes and 118 reconnaissance aircraft.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2nd_Air_Force">2nd Air Force</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: 2nd Air Force"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Macchi_M.C.200.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="a single-engine monoplane with green and black mottled camouflage paint parked on the tarmac" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Macchi_M.C.200.jpg/220px-Macchi_M.C.200.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Macchi_M.C.200.jpg/330px-Macchi_M.C.200.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Macchi_M.C.200.jpg/440px-Macchi_M.C.200.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1483" data-file-height="865" /></a><figcaption>Macchi C.200 fighters were operated by several Italian fighter wings and independent fighter groups</figcaption></figure> <p>The headquarters of the 2nd Air Force (Italian: <i lang="it">2nd Squadra Aerea</i>) was at <a href="/wiki/Padua_Airport" title="Padua Airport">Padua</a>, in northeastern Italy under the command of <i>Generale di Squadra Aerea</i> (Lieutenant General) <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tullio_Toccolini&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tullio Toccolini (page does not exist)">Tullio Toccolini</a>. It comprised two fighter wings, one bomber wing, two independent bomber groups, three reconnaissance groups and one independent reconnaissance squadron. In total, the 2nd Air Force had 90 fighters, 61 medium bombers and 49 reconnaissance aircraft available to support the invasion of Yugoslavia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Composition of Italian 2nd Air Force<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e_40-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Unit </th> <th scope="col">Location </th> <th scope="col">Aircraft </th></tr> <tr> <td>4th Fighter Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Gorizia" title="Gorizia">Gorizia</a></div></td> <td>46 × <a href="/wiki/Macchi_C.200" class="mw-redirect" title="Macchi C.200">Macchi C.200</a> fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>54th Fighter Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Treviso_Airport" title="Treviso Airport">Treviso</a></div></td> <td>44 × Macchi C.200 fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>18th Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Aviano_Air_Base" title="Aviano Air Base">Aviano</a></div></td> <td>32 × <a href="/wiki/Fiat_BR.20" class="mw-redirect" title="Fiat BR.20">Fiat BR.20</a> medium bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>25th Bomber Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Forl%C3%AC_Airport" title="Forlì Airport">Forli</a></div></td> <td>15 × Fiat BR.20 medium bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>99th Bomber Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Vicenza" title="Vicenza">Vicenza</a></div></td> <td>14 × Fiat BR.20 medium bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>61st Reconnaissance Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Gorizia</div></td> <td>8 × <a href="/wiki/Caproni_Ca.311" title="Caproni Ca.311">Caproni Ca.311</a> reconnaissance aircraft<br />8 × <a href="/wiki/IMAM_Ro.37" title="IMAM Ro.37">IMAM Ro.37bis</a> reconnaissance biplanes </td></tr> <tr> <td>63rd Reconnaissance Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Udine</div></td> <td>14 × IMAM Ro.37bis reconnaissance biplanes </td></tr> <tr> <td>71st Reconnaissance Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Udine</div></td> <td>12 × IMAM Ro.37bis reconnaissance biplanes </td></tr> <tr> <td>128th Reconnaissance Squadron</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Gorizia</div></td> <td>7 × Caproni Ca.311 reconnaissance aircraft </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="4th_Air_Force">4th Air Force</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: 4th Air Force"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:StukaRA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="a single-engine monoplane parked on grass with men in uniform seated under the fuselage" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/StukaRA.jpg/220px-StukaRA.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/StukaRA.jpg/330px-StukaRA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/StukaRA.jpg/440px-StukaRA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="711" data-file-height="469" /></a><figcaption>Junkers Ju 87 dive bombers were operated by two Italian dive bomber groups</figcaption></figure> <p>The headquarters of the 4th Air Force (Italian: <i lang="it">4th Squadra Aerea</i>) was at <a href="/wiki/Bari_Karol_Wojty%C5%82a_Airport" title="Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport">Bari</a>, in southern Italy under the command of <i>Generale di Squadra Aerea</i> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Augusto_Bonola&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Augusto Bonola (page does not exist)">Augusto Bonola</a>. It comprised two independent fighter groups and one independent fighter squadron, four bomber wings, one combined bomber and naval bomber wing, two independent bomber groups and one independent dive bomber equipped with German Junkers Ju 87B <i>Stuka</i> aircraft. In total, the 4th Air Force had 73 fighters, 20 dive bombers, 131 medium bombers and 12 bomber floatplanes available to support the invasion of Yugoslavia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e_40-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Composition of Italian 4th Air Force<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e_40-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Unit </th> <th scope="col">Location </th> <th scope="col">Aircraft </th></tr> <tr> <td>8th Independent Fighter Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Oria,_Apulia" title="Oria, Apulia">Oria</a></div></td> <td>14 × Macchi C.200 fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>153rd Independent Fighter Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Brindisi" title="Brindisi">Brindisi</a></div></td> <td>38 × Macchi C.200 fighters<br />9 × <a href="/wiki/Fiat_CR.42" class="mw-redirect" title="Fiat CR.42">Fiat CR.42</a> biplane fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>370th Independent Fighter Squadron</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Grottaglie" title="Grottaglie">Grottaglie</a></div></td> <td>12 × Macchi C.200 fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>13th Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Gioia_del_Colle_Air_Base" title="Gioia del Colle Air Base">Gioia del Colle</a></div></td> <td>24 × Fiat BR.20 medium bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>35th Bomber/Naval Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Brindisi</div></td> <td>15 × <a href="/wiki/CANT_Z.1007" class="mw-redirect" title="CANT Z.1007">CANT Z.1007bis</a> medium bombers<br />12 × CANT Z.1007bis bomber floatplanes </td></tr> <tr> <td>37th Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Lecce_Airfield" title="Lecce Airfield">Lecce</a></div></td> <td>20 × Fiat BR.20M medium bombers<br />7 × Fiat BR.20 medium bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>38th Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Foggia_%22Gino_Lisa%22_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Foggia "Gino Lisa" Airport">Foggia</a></div></td> <td>16 × Fiat BR.20 medium bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>47th Bomber Wing</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Grottaglie</div></td> <td>26 × CANT Z.1007bis medium bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>50th Bomber Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Brindisi</div></td> <td>8 × CANT Z.1007bis medium bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>104th Bomber Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Foggia</div></td> <td>15 × <a href="/wiki/Savoia-Marchetti_SM.79" class="mw-redirect" title="Savoia-Marchetti SM.79">Savoia-Marchetti SM.79</a> medium bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>97th Dive Bomber Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Lecce</div></td> <td>20 × Junkers Ju 87B dive bombers </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Air_Command_Albania">Air Command Albania</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Air Command Albania"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-425-0338-16A,_Flugzeuge_Fiat_G.50_und_Messerschmitt_Me_110.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="a single-engined monoplane in flight" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-425-0338-16A%2C_Flugzeuge_Fiat_G.50_und_Messerschmitt_Me_110.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-425-0338-16A%2C_Flugzeuge_Fiat_G.50_und_Messerschmitt_Me_110.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-425-0338-16A%2C_Flugzeuge_Fiat_G.50_und_Messerschmitt_Me_110.jpg/330px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-425-0338-16A%2C_Flugzeuge_Fiat_G.50_und_Messerschmitt_Me_110.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-425-0338-16A%2C_Flugzeuge_Fiat_G.50_und_Messerschmitt_Me_110.jpg/440px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-425-0338-16A%2C_Flugzeuge_Fiat_G.50_und_Messerschmitt_Me_110.jpg 2x" data-file-width="716" data-file-height="462" /></a><figcaption>Fiat G.50 fighters were operated by two fighter groups of Air Command Albania</figcaption></figure> <p>The headquarters of Air Command Albania (Italian: <i lang="it">Comando Aeronautica Albania</i>) was located at <a href="/wiki/Tirana" title="Tirana">Tirana</a>, Albania under the command of <i>Generale di Squadra Aerea</i> <a href="/wiki/Ferruccio_Ranza" title="Ferruccio Ranza">Ferruccio Ranza</a>. It comprised five fighter groups, one dive bomber group equipped with German Junkers Ju 87B <i>Stuka</i> aircraft, three independent reconnaissance groups and two independent reconnaissance squadrons. In total, the Italians had 133 fighters, 20 dive bombers and 69 reconnaissance aircraft available in Albania to support the invasions of Yugoslavia and Greece.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e_40-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Composition of Air Command Albania<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e_40-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Unit </th> <th scope="col">Location </th> <th scope="col">Aircraft </th></tr> <tr> <td>22nd Fighter Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Tirana</div></td> <td>37 × Macchi C.200 fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>24th Fighter Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Devoll_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Devoll District">Devoli</a></div></td> <td>26 × <a href="/wiki/Fiat_G.50" class="mw-redirect" title="Fiat G.50">Fiat G.50</a> fighters<br />1 × <a href="/wiki/Caproni_Ca.111" title="Caproni Ca.111">Caproni Ca.111</a> reconnaissance aircraft </td></tr> <tr> <td>150th Fighter Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Vlor%C3%AB" title="Vlorë">Valona</a></div></td> <td>20 × Macchi C.200 fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>154th Fighter Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Devoli</div></td> <td>20 × Fiat G.50 fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>160th Fighter Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Tirana</div></td> <td>30 × Fiat CR.42 biplane fighters </td></tr> <tr> <td>101st Dive Bomber Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Tirana</div></td> <td>20 × Junkers Ju 87B dive bombers </td></tr> <tr> <td>5th Reconnaissance Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Berat" title="Berat">Berat</a></div></td> <td>18 × IMAM Ro.37bis reconnaissance biplanes </td></tr> <tr> <td>70th Reconnaissance Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Tirana</div></td> <td>17 × IMAM Ro.37bis reconnaissance biplanes </td></tr> <tr> <td>72nd Reconnaissance Group</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Valona</div></td> <td>9 × IMAM Ro.37bis reconnaissance biplanes<br />9 × Caproni Ca.311 reconnaissance aircraft </td></tr> <tr> <td>35th Reconnaissance Squadron</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Peqin" title="Peqin">Pequini</a></div></td> <td>8 × IMAM Ro.37bis reconnaissance biplanes </td></tr> <tr> <td>87th Reconnaissance Squadron</td> <td><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Tirana</div></td> <td>7 × Caproni Ca.311 reconnaissance aircraft </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Royal_Italian_Navy">Royal Italian Navy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Royal Italian Navy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Three <a href="/wiki/Destroyer" title="Destroyer">destroyers</a> of the Royal Italian Navy (Italian: <i lang="it">Regia Marina</i>) were deployed into the <a href="/wiki/Adriatic" class="mw-redirect" title="Adriatic">Adriatic</a> in direct support of the invasion, and other units were tasked to suppress the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Yugoslav_Navy" title="Royal Yugoslav Navy">Royal Yugoslav Navy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKrzak2006573_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKrzak2006573-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hungarian">Hungarian</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Hungarian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Royal_Hungarian_Army">Royal Hungarian Army</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Royal Hungarian Army"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Carro_Leggero_3_35-001.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="a green turret-less tracked vehicle inside a building" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Carro_Leggero_3_35-001.jpg/220px-Carro_Leggero_3_35-001.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Carro_Leggero_3_35-001.jpg/330px-Carro_Leggero_3_35-001.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Carro_Leggero_3_35-001.jpg/440px-Carro_Leggero_3_35-001.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption>The Hungarian Mobile Corps was equipped with Italian-made <a href="/wiki/L3/35" title="L3/35">L3/35</a> tankettes armed with machine guns</figcaption></figure> <p>The Hungarian Army (<a href="/wiki/Hungarian_language" title="Hungarian language">Hungarian</a>: <i lang="hu">Magyar Honvédség</i>) committed the <a href="/wiki/Mobile_Corps_(Hungary)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mobile Corps (Hungary)">Mobile</a>, <a href="/wiki/I_Corps_(Hungary)" title="I Corps (Hungary)">I</a>, <a href="/wiki/IV_Corps_(Hungary)" title="IV Corps (Hungary)">IV</a> and <a href="/wiki/V_Corps_(Hungary)" title="V Corps (Hungary)">V Corps</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Lieutenant General">Vezérezredes</a></i> (Lieutenant General) <a href="/wiki/Elem%C3%A9r_Gorondy-Nov%C3%A1k" title="Elemér Gorondy-Novák">Elemér Gorondy-Novák</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Third_Army_(Hungary)" title="Third Army (Hungary)">3rd Army</a> to the invasion. The 1st Parachute Battalion was earmarked for airborne operations.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013f_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013f-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Hungarian invasion force was deployed along the Yugoslav border largely between the Danube and the <a href="/wiki/Tisza" title="Tisza">Tisza</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETomasevich197567_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETomasevich197567-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Elements of the Hungarian 3rd Army<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013f_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013f-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Formation-unit </th> <th scope="col">Commander </th> <th scope="col">Brigade-battalion </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/Gyorshadtest" title="Gyorshadtest">Mobile Corps</a></div> </td> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i><a href="/wiki/Major_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Major General">Altábornagy</a></i><br /><a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Mikl%C3%B3s" title="Béla Miklós">Béla Miklós</a></div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1st_Motorised_Brigade_(Hungary)" title="1st Motorised Brigade (Hungary)">1st Motorised Brigade</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2nd_Motorised_Brigade_(Hungary)" title="2nd Motorised Brigade (Hungary)">2nd Motorised Brigade</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1st_Cavalry_Brigade_(Hungary)" title="1st Cavalry Brigade (Hungary)">1st Cavalry Brigade</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/I_Corps_(Hungary)" title="I Corps (Hungary)">I Corps</a></div> </td> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i>Altábornagy</i><br /><a href="/wiki/Zolt%C3%A1n_Decleva" title="Zoltán Decleva">Zoltán Decleva</a></div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1st_Infantry_Brigade_(Hungary)" title="1st Infantry Brigade (Hungary)">1st Infantry Brigade</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/13th_Infantry_Brigade_(Hungary)" title="13th Infantry Brigade (Hungary)">13th Infantry Brigade</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/15th_Infantry_Brigade_(Hungary)" title="15th Infantry Brigade (Hungary)">15th Infantry Brigade</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/IV_Corps_(Hungary)" title="IV Corps (Hungary)">IV Corps</a></div> </td> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i>Altábornagy</i><br />László Horváth</div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2nd_Infantry_Brigade_(Hungary)" title="2nd Infantry Brigade (Hungary)">2nd Infantry Brigade</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/10th_Infantry_Brigade_(Hungary)" title="10th Infantry Brigade (Hungary)">10th Infantry Brigade</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/12th_Infantry_Brigade_(Hungary)" title="12th Infantry Brigade (Hungary)">12th Infantry Brigade</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/V_Corps_(Hungary)" title="V Corps (Hungary)">V Corps</a></div> </td> <td rowspan="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i>Altábornagy</i><br />Antal Silley</div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/14th_Infantry_Brigade_(Hungary)" title="14th Infantry Brigade (Hungary)">14th Infantry Brigade</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/19th_Infantry_Brigade_(Hungary)" title="19th Infantry Brigade (Hungary)">19th Infantry Brigade</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2nd_Cavalry_Brigade_(Hungary)" title="2nd Cavalry Brigade (Hungary)">2nd Cavalry Brigade</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="1"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Independent Brigade</div> </td> <td rowspan="1"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i><a href="/wiki/Brigadier_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Brigadier General">Vezérőrnagy</a></i><br />János Székely</div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/9th_Infantry_Brigade_(Hungary)" title="9th Infantry Brigade (Hungary)">9th Infantry Brigade</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="1"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Independent Brigade</div> </td> <td rowspan="1"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i>Vezérőrnagy</i><br />János Dömötör</div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/11th_Infantry_Brigade_(Hungary)" title="11th Infantry Brigade (Hungary)">11th Infantry Brigade</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="1"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Independent Battalion</div> </td> <td rowspan="1"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><i><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Colonel" class="mw-redirect" title="Lieutenant Colonel">Alezredes</a></i><br />Árpád Bertalan</div> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1st_Parachute_Battalion_(Hungary)" title="1st Parachute Battalion (Hungary)">1st Parachute Battalion</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Royal_Hungarian_Air_Force">Royal Hungarian Air Force</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Royal Hungarian Air Force"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fiat_CR_42_Falco_fighter_parked.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A black and white photograph of a single-propeller biplane on the ground" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Fiat_CR_42_Falco_fighter_parked.jpg/220px-Fiat_CR_42_Falco_fighter_parked.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Fiat_CR_42_Falco_fighter_parked.jpg/330px-Fiat_CR_42_Falco_fighter_parked.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Fiat_CR_42_Falco_fighter_parked.jpg/440px-Fiat_CR_42_Falco_fighter_parked.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1797" data-file-height="1273" /></a><figcaption>Fiat CR.42 biplane fighters were used by the MKHL during the invasion</figcaption></figure> <p>The Royal Hungarian Air Force (Hungarian: <i lang="hu">Magyar Királyi Honvéd Légierő</i>, MKHL) committed its 1st Air Brigade to the invasion, consisting of four fighter groups of the 1st and 2nd Air Regiments flying Fiat CR.42 biplane fighters, one reinforced bomber group from the 3rd and 4th Air Regiments with <a href="/wiki/Junkers_Ju_86" title="Junkers Ju 86">Junkers Ju 86</a> and <a href="/wiki/Caproni_Ca.135" title="Caproni Ca.135">Caproni Ca.135bis</a> twin-engined bombers, and one reconnaissance group from the 5th Air Regiment operating <a href="/wiki/Heinkel_He_70" class="mw-redirect" title="Heinkel He 70">Heinkel He 170A</a> reconnaissance aircraft.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013f_41-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013f-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987222_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987222-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Savoia-Marchetti_SM.75" class="mw-redirect" title="Savoia-Marchetti SM.75">Savoia-Marchetti SM.75</a> transports were used to transport the 1st Parachute Battalion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987222_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987222-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">According to Schreiber, Stegemann, and Vogel, the divisions planned to be part of the 2nd Army reserve that did not reach Yugoslavia were the <a href="/wiki/4th_Panzer_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="4th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)">4th</a>, <a href="/wiki/12th_Panzer_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="12th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)">12th</a> and <a href="/wiki/19th_Panzer_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="19th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)">19th</a> Panzer divisions, the <a href="/wiki/20th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="20th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">20th Motorised Infantry Division</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/100th_Light_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="100th Light Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">100th</a>, <a href="/wiki/169th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="169th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">169th</a>, <a href="/wiki/179th_Reserve_Panzer_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="179th Reserve Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)">179th</a>, and <a href="/wiki/197th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="197th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">197th</a> Infantry divisions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995491_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995491-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Niehorster, the three panzer divisions and the 100th Light Infantry Division were held as theatre reserves, the 169th and 197th Infantry divisions were assigned to 2nd Army. Niehorster does not mention the 20th Motorised Infantry Division or 179th Infantry Division.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013g_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013g-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013h_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013h-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">According to Niehorster, the 79th Infantry Division was allocated to the LII Infantry Corps.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013h_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013h-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Only elements of the 101st Light Infantry Division were assigned to LI Infantry Corps on 5 April 1941. The remainder was not assigned until 10 April.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013h_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013h-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">According to Schreiber, Stegemann, and Vogel, the LII Infantry Corps was only planned for assignment to the 2nd Army on 13 April, and did not actually take over command of any formations until 15 April, when it took command of the 125th Infantry Division and elements of the 101st Light Infantry Division.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995491_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995491-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">According to Schreiber, Stegemann, and Vogel, the 125th Infantry Division did not reach Yugoslavia during the fighting.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995491_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995491-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">According to Niehorster, XXXXI Motorised Corps was assigned to the First Panzer Group.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013i_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013i-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">According to Schreiber, Stegemann and Vogel, the First Panzer Group consisted of the XIV Motorised Corps comprising the 5th and 11th Panzer divisions, 4th Mountain Division, 60th Motorised Infantry Division and 294th Infantry Division.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489_15-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Niehorster, the First Panzer Group consisted of the XIV Motorised Corps (comprising the 5th and 11th Panzer Divisions), XXXXI Motorised Corps (comprising the SS Motorised Infantry Division <i>Reich</i> and the <i>Großdeutschland</i> Motorised Infantry Regiment), and the 4th Mountain Division and 294th Infantry Division, with the 60th Motorised Infantry Division assigned to 12th Army.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013i_16-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013i-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This divisional-sized Border Guard formation consisted of three regimental-sized Border Guard Sectors based around the <a href="/wiki/Timavo" title="Timavo">Timavo</a> river, the <a href="/wiki/Kvarner_Gulf" title="Kvarner Gulf">Carnavo Gulf</a> and the city of <a href="/wiki/Rijeka" title="Rijeka">Fiume</a>. It was supported by a Border Guard artillery regiment of seven battalions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013b_32-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013b-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This divisional-sized Border Guard formation consisted of four regimental-sized Border Guard Sectors. It was supported by two Border Guard artillery regiments, one of a single battalion, and the other comprising twelve battalions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013b_32-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013b-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This regimental-sized group consisted of three Alpini battalions and a mountain artillery battalion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013b_32-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013b-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Footnotes">Footnotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013g_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFNiehorster2013g">Niehorster 2013g</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELennox1997D-1-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELennox1997D-1_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLennox1997">Lennox 1997</a>, p. D-1.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army198639–41-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army198639–41_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFU.S._Army1986">U.S. Army 1986</a>, pp. 39–41.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army198648–49-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army198648–49_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFU.S._Army1986">U.S. Army 1986</a>, pp. 48–49.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995491-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995491_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995491_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995491_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995491_6-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995491_6-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSchreiberStegemannVogel1995">Schreiber, Stegemann & Vogel 1995</a>, p. 491.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013h-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013h_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013h_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013h_7-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013h_7-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013h_7-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013h_7-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFNiehorster2013h">Niehorster 2013h</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army198641-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army198641_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFU.S._Army1986">U.S. Army 1986</a>, p. 41.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEZajac199349-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZajac199349_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFZajac1993">Zajac 1993</a>, p. 49.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489_15-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489_15-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489_15-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489_15-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489_15-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489_15-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchreiberStegemannVogel1995489_15-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSchreiberStegemannVogel1995">Schreiber, Stegemann & Vogel 1995</a>, p. 489.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013i-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013i_16-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013i_16-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013i_16-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013i_16-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013i_16-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013i_16-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFNiehorster2013i">Niehorster 2013i</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army1986Map_3-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army1986Map_3_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFU.S._Army1986">U.S. Army 1986</a>, Map 3.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181_20-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181_20-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181_20-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181_20-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181_20-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181_20-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181_20-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181_20-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987180–181_20-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFShoresCullMalizia1987">Shores, Cull & Malizia 1987</a>, pp. 180–181.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j_21-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j_21-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j_21-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j_21-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j_21-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j_21-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j_21-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j_21-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j_21-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013j_21-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFNiehorster2013j">Niehorster 2013j</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army198639-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army198639_22-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEU.S._Army198639_22-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFU.S._Army1986">U.S. Army 1986</a>, p. 39.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarefield199348-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarefield199348_23-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBarefield1993">Barefield 1993</a>, p. 48.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987170-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987170_24-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFShoresCullMalizia1987">Shores, Cull & Malizia 1987</a>, p. 170.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987213-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987213_25-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFShoresCullMalizia1987">Shores, Cull & Malizia 1987</a>, p. 213.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013a-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013a_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFNiehorster2013a">Niehorster 2013a</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEKrzak2006573-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKrzak2006573_27-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKrzak2006573_27-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKrzak2006">Krzak 2006</a>, p. 573.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013d-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013d_28-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013d_28-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFNiehorster2013d">Niehorster 2013d</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoi197832-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoi197832_29-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoi1978">Loi 1978</a>, p. 32.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEJowett20009-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJowett20009_30-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJowett2000">Jowett 2000</a>, p. 9.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoi197851–54_&_186-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoi197851–54_&_186_31-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoi1978">Loi 1978</a>, pp. 51–54 & 186.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013b-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013b_32-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013b_32-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013b_32-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013b_32-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013b_32-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013b_32-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFNiehorster2013b">Niehorster 2013b</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEJowett200010-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJowett200010_36-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJowett2000">Jowett 2000</a>, p. 10.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoi197876-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoi197876_37-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoi1978">Loi 1978</a>, p. 76.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013c-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013c_38-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013c_38-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFNiehorster2013c">Niehorster 2013c</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELoi197867-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELoi197867_39-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLoi1978">Loi 1978</a>, p. 67.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e_40-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e_40-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e_40-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e_40-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e_40-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e_40-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013e_40-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFNiehorster2013e">Niehorster 2013e</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013f-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013f_41-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013f_41-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENiehorster2013f_41-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFNiehorster2013f">Niehorster 2013f</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETomasevich197567-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETomasevich197567_42-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTomasevich1975">Tomasevich 1975</a>, p. 67.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987222-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987222_43-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShoresCullMalizia1987222_43-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFShoresCullMalizia1987">Shores, Cull & Malizia 1987</a>, p. 222.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span 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(2000). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=25duk2H3LbQC"><i>The Italian Army 1940–45 (1): Europe 1940–43</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>, United Kingdom: Osprey. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-85532-864-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-85532-864-8"><bdi>978-1-85532-864-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Italian+Army+1940%E2%80%9345+%281%29%3A+Europe+1940%E2%80%9343&rft.place=Oxford%2C+United+Kingdom&rft.pub=Osprey&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=978-1-85532-864-8&rft.aulast=Jowett&rft.aufirst=Phillip+S.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D25duk2H3LbQC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AInvasion+of+Yugoslavia+order+of+battle%3A+Axis" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLoi1978" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Loi, Salvatore (1978). <i>Le operazioni delle unità italiane in Jugoslavia (1941–1943): narrazione, documenti</i> [<i>The operations of Italian units in Yugoslavia (1941–1943): narrative, documents</i>] (in Italian). <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>, Italy: Ministero della difesa (Ministry of Defence). <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/9194926">9194926</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Le+operazioni+delle+unit%C3%A0+italiane+in+Jugoslavia+%281941%E2%80%931943%29%3A+narrazione%2C+documenti&rft.place=Rome%2C+Italy&rft.pub=Ministero+della+difesa+%28Ministry+of+Defence%29&rft.date=1978&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F9194926&rft.aulast=Loi&rft.aufirst=Salvatore&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AInvasion+of+Yugoslavia+order+of+battle%3A+Axis" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSchreiberStegemannVogel1995" class="citation book cs1">Schreiber, Dr. Gerhard; Stegemann, Bernd; Vogel, Detlef (1995). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=yxzsngEACAAJ"><i>The Mediterranean, South-East Europe, and North Africa, 1939-1941 : from Italy's Declaration of Non-belligerence to the Entry of the United States into the War</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-822884-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-822884-4"><bdi>978-0-19-822884-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Mediterranean%2C+South-East+Europe%2C+and+North+Africa%2C+1939-1941+%3A+from+Italy%27s+Declaration+of+Non-belligerence+to+the+Entry+of+the+United+States+into+the+War&rft.place=Oxford%2C+United+Kingdom&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1995&rft.isbn=978-0-19-822884-4&rft.aulast=Schreiber&rft.aufirst=Dr.+Gerhard&rft.au=Stegemann%2C+Bernd&rft.au=Vogel%2C+Detlef&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DyxzsngEACAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AInvasion+of+Yugoslavia+order+of+battle%3A+Axis" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFShoresCullMalizia1987" class="citation book cs1">Shores, Christopher F.; Cull, Brian; Malizia, Nicola (1987). <i>Air War for Yugoslavia, Greece, and Crete, 1940–41</i>. <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>: Grub Street. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-948817-07-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-948817-07-6"><bdi>978-0-948817-07-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Air+War+for+Yugoslavia%2C+Greece%2C+and+Crete%2C+1940%E2%80%9341&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Grub+Street&rft.date=1987&rft.isbn=978-0-948817-07-6&rft.aulast=Shores&rft.aufirst=Christopher+F.&rft.au=Cull%2C+Brian&rft.au=Malizia%2C+Nicola&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AInvasion+of+Yugoslavia+order+of+battle%3A+Axis" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTomasevich1975" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Jozo_Tomasevich" title="Jozo Tomasevich">Tomasevich, Jozo</a> (1975). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=yoCaAAAAIAAJ"><i>War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945: The Chetniks</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Stanford,_California" title="Stanford, California">Stanford, California</a>: Stanford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8047-0857-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8047-0857-9"><bdi>978-0-8047-0857-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=War+and+Revolution+in+Yugoslavia%2C+1941%E2%80%931945%3A+The+Chetniks&rft.place=Stanford%2C+California&rft.pub=Stanford+University+Press&rft.date=1975&rft.isbn=978-0-8047-0857-9&rft.aulast=Tomasevich&rft.aufirst=Jozo&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DyoCaAAAAIAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AInvasion+of+Yugoslavia+order+of+battle%3A+Axis" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFU.S._Army1986" class="citation book cs1">U.S. Army (1986) [1953]. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090619234443/http://history.army.mil/books/wwii/balkan/intro.htm"><i>The German Campaigns in the Balkans (Spring 1941)</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>: United States Army Center of Military History. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/16940402">16940402</a>. CMH Pub 104-4. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/balkan/intro.htm">the original</a> on 19 June 2009<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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(May 1993). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA274019.pdf">"Overwhelming Force, Indecisive Victory: The German Invasion of Yugoslavia, 1941"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: School of Advanced Military Studies, United States Army Command and General Staff College. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/32251055">32251055</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130408130619/http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA274019">Archived</a> from the original on 8 April 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Overwhelming+Force%2C+Indecisive+Victory%3A+The+German+Invasion+of+Yugoslavia%2C+1941&rft.date=1993-05&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F32251055&rft.aulast=Barefield&rft.aufirst=Michael+R.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.dtic.mil%2Fsti%2Fpdfs%2FADA274019.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AInvasion+of+Yugoslavia+order+of+battle%3A+Axis" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_journal" title="Template:Cite journal">cite journal</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment">Cite journal requires <code class="cs1-code">|journal=</code> (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#missing_periodical" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKrzak2006" class="citation journal cs1">Krzak, Andrzej (2006). "Operation "Marita": The Attack Against Yugoslavia in 1941". <i>The Journal of Slavic Military Studies</i>. <b>19</b> (3): 543–600. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F13518040600868123">10.1080/13518040600868123</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1351-8046">1351-8046</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:219625930">219625930</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Journal+of+Slavic+Military+Studies&rft.atitle=Operation+%22Marita%22%3A+The+Attack+Against+Yugoslavia+in+1941&rft.volume=19&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=543-600&rft.date=2006&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A219625930%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.issn=1351-8046&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1080%2F13518040600868123&rft.aulast=Krzak&rft.aufirst=Andrzej&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AInvasion+of+Yugoslavia+order+of+battle%3A+Axis" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLennox1997" class="citation journal cs1">Lennox, Dyer T. (May 1997). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA328138.pdf">"Operational Analysis: German Operations Against Yugoslavia 1941"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Newport, Rhode Island: Joint Military Operations Department, Naval War College. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/227851142">227851142</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130408132234/http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA328138">Archived</a> from the original on 8 April 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Operational+Analysis%3A+German+Operations+Against+Yugoslavia+1941&rft.date=1997-05&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F227851142&rft.aulast=Lennox&rft.aufirst=Dyer+T.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.dtic.mil%2Fsti%2Fpdfs%2FADA328138.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AInvasion+of+Yugoslavia+order+of+battle%3A+Axis" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_journal" title="Template:Cite journal">cite journal</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment">Cite journal requires <code class="cs1-code">|journal=</code> (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#missing_periodical" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFZajac1993" class="citation journal cs1">Zajac, Daniel L. (May 1993). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA274043.pdf">"The German Invasion of Yugoslavia: Insights For Crisis Action Planning And Operational Art in A Combined Environment"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: School of Advanced Military Studies, United States Army Command and General Staff College. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/32251097">32251097</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130408131811/http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA274043">Archived</a> from the original on 8 April 2013.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=The+German+Invasion+of+Yugoslavia%3A+Insights+For+Crisis+Action+Planning+And+Operational+Art+in+A+Combined+Environment&rft.date=1993-05&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F32251097&rft.aulast=Zajac&rft.aufirst=Daniel+L.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.dtic.mil%2Fsti%2Fpdfs%2FADA274043.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AInvasion+of+Yugoslavia+order+of+battle%3A+Axis" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_journal" title="Template:Cite journal">cite journal</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment">Cite journal requires <code class="cs1-code">|journal=</code> (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#missing_periodical" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Web">Web</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Yugoslavia_order_of_battle:_Axis&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Web"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239549316"><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNiehorster2013a" class="citation web cs1">Niehorster, Leo (2013a). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://niehorster.org/019_italy/41-04-05_army/_army.html">"Balkan Operations Italian Order of Battle Italian Army 5th April 1941"</a>. 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