text: The 29th Infantry Division "Piemonte" was one of three infantry divisions, which recruited in Sicily. It mainly drafted men from eastern Sicily and had its peacetime headquarters in Messina. It's two infantry regiments were based in Messina (3rd) and Catania (4th), with the division's artillery regiment based also in Messina. In September 1940 the division was transferred to Albania and remained in the Balkans and Greece until it disbanded after the Italian-Allied Armistice of Cassibile.
  Maritime Military Command Sicily
  Military harbors in Sicily were under command of the Royal Italian Navy's Maritime Military Command Sicily () in Messina, which fell under Armed Forces Command Sicily. The command's commanding officer was Ammiraglio di Squadra Pietro Barone and a large majority of its units were Royal Italian Army and CC.NN. units. The only naval units in Sicily in July 1943 were twenty torpedo boats of the 3rd and 7th torpedo boat squadrons.
  Besides the three major commands listed below the Royal Italian Navy was also present with administrative Navy Commands in Catania, Palermo, and Porto Empedocle.
  Maritime Military Base Messina-Reggio Calabria
  Maritime Military Base Messina-Reggio Calabria, in Messina - Ammiraglio di Squadra Pietro Barone
  116th Coastal Regiment, in Reggio Calabria
  CLVI Coastal Battalion
  DII Coastal Battalion
  119th Coastal Regiment
  CCCLXX Coastal Battalion
  CCCLXXI Coastal Battalion
  CDXLII Coastal Battalion
  DIII Coastal Battalion
  95th CC.NN. Legion "Marzocco"
  XCIII CC.NN. Battalion
  XCV CC.NN. Battalion
  93rd CC.NN. Machine Gun Company
  DLXIII Mobile Territorial CC.NN. Battalion (from the 163rd CC.NN. Legion "Tommaso Gulli" in Reggio Calabria)