Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I muri i te urunga mai o Itari ki te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao i te Pipiri 10, 1940, i whakatairangahia ia ki a Major General i te Hanuere 1, 1941, ka whakawhiwhia ki a ia te 24th Infantry Division Pinerolo. I taua marama ano i whakawhitihia te "Pinerolo" ki te
Albanian mua, a, i muri i te tuku o Kariki i Aperira, i noho tonu hei wae mahi i Thessaly. I te marama o Akuhata o taua tau ano ka whakakapihia ia i te whakahau o te "Pinerolo" Division e Major General Licurgo Zannini, ana i te 14 o Akuhata 1941 i tukuna ia ki Libya i te Whakahaerenga Nui o nga Ope Taua i Awherika ki te Raki, ana i te 25 o te marama ano ka riro ia hei rangatira mo te 102nd Motorized Division Trento. Na tenei wehenga i uru ia ki te whakapae o Tobruk me te Operation Crusader, tae noa ki te Hanuere 20, 1942, i te wa i whakawhiwhia ai ia ki te rangatira o te 132nd Armored Division Ariete i arahina e ia i nga pakanga o Gazala, Tobruk, Bir Hakeim me Mersa Matruh. Mo ana angitu i whakawhiwhia ki a ia, i te Mei 26, 1942, te Cross Officer o te Order Military o Savoy.