Francesco Zingales | |
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| Born | 1884 |
| Died | 1959 (aged 74–75) |
| Allegiance |  Kingdom of Italy |
| Service/ |  Royal Italian Army |
| Commands held | 10th Motorised Division Piave Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia Seventh Army Italian XX Motorised Corps XXX Army Corps XXXI Army Corps XII Army Corps |
| Battles/wars | First World War |
Francesco Zingales (1884-1959) was a general in the Royal Italian Army during World War II.
Francesco Zingales fought in World War I on the Isonzo Front.
In 1939 he had become commander of the 10th Motorised Division Piave, but saw no action in 1940. In April 1941, during the World War II Axis powers invasion of Yugoslavia, he commanded the Motorised Corps. [1]
In September 1941, he was appointed as commander of the Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia, but fell ill in Vienna on his way to the front and was replaced by Giovanni Messe.
After his recovery, he became commander of the XXX Army Corps and reserve Seventh Army.
Later in 1942, he was stationed a couple of months in North Africa at the head of the Italian XX Motorised Corps and then in Calabria as commander of the XXXI Army Corps.
In November 1942, on his turn he replaced Giovanni Messe as commander of the XXXV Corps, which was a part of the 8th Italian Army in Russia. After the Soviet Operation Little Saturn, his Corps was forced to withdraw from the Don River.
After his return in Italy in 1943, he became on 12 July commander of the XII Italian Corps in Sicily with which he fought against the Allied invasion of Sicily.
Giovanni Messe was an Italian field marshal and politician. In the Second World War, he was captured in Tunisia but made chief of staff of the Italian Co-belligerent Army after the armistice of September 1943. Later, he was an elected representative in the Italian Senate. He is considered by many to have been the best Italian general of the war.
The Italian participation on the Eastern Front represented the military intervention of the Kingdom of Italy in the Operation Barbarossa, launched by Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union in 1941. The commitment to actively take part in the German offensive was decided by Benito Mussolini a few months before the beginning of the operation, when he became aware of Adolf Hitler's intention to invade, but it was confirmed only in the morning of 22 June 1941, as soon as the Italian dictator was informed that same day the German armies had invaded the Soviet Union.
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