Thread: 41° Gruppo AS
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Old 23rd May 2006, 15:48
Gianandrea Bussi Gianandrea Bussi is offline
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Re: 41° Gruppo AS

One addiction to the Mr. Slongo report.
Erasi was commander of the 41° Gruppo since 17 september 1942 (source: Mister Bridge, by Sponza-D'Agostino: it's the only existing Erasi's biography).

Even though Unia's book reports that 132° Gruppo was at Gorizia on 9 july 1943, according to the book "Il Gruppo Buscaglia alla vigilia e dopo l'armistizio"
by Gabriele Casini (who was the 132° Gruppo commander after Buscaglia was missing at Bougie in november 1942 and hold it until Buscaglia came back to Italy in the summer 1944) this unit was based at Littoria since 27 june 1943, coming from Istres, and stayed there until 10 september 1943.
I think that Casini's statement is more reliable because he was the unit commander at that time.

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