The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Enrico Pitassi-Mannella

Pitassi-Mannella, Enrico

Lieutenant-General

* 31st of May 1882

† 29th of July 1945

Promotions

1925-08-07 Lieutenant-Colonel (Seniority from 1925-06-30)
1929-07-26 Colonel (Exceptional merits)(Seniority from 1929-06-18)
1936-03-16 Brigadier-General (Exceptional merits)
1936-07-06 Brigadier-General (Exceptional merits)(Seniority from 1935-03-11)
1937-09-09 Major-General (Seniority from 1937-07-01)
1945-02-08 Lieutenant-General (Seniority from 1941-07-01)

Service

1925-10-15 1929-08-31 Instructor at the Central Military School
1929-08-31 1930-02-01 Commanding Officer 1st Anti-Aircraft Centre
1930-02-01 1933-09-07 Commandant of the School of Artillery Shooting
1933-09-07 1934-10-XX Commanding Officer 3rd Field Artillery Regiment
1934-10-XX 1935-06-01 Commanding Officer 3rd Division Artillery Regiment
1935-06-01 1935-09-01 Attached to the Ministry of the Colonies
1935-09-01 1936-05-24 Commanding Officer Artillery, II Corps
1936-05-24 1937-08-05 Attached to the Ministry of Italian Africa
1937-08-05 1938-06-30 Assistant General, Inspectorate of Artillery
1938-06-30 1939-04-15 General Officer Commanding 19th Infantry Division "Gavinana"
1939-04-15 1940-06-10 General Officer Commanding 19th Infantry Division "Venezia" [Albania]
1940-06-10 1941-01-03 General Officer Commanding XXII Corps
1941-01-03 1944-07-07 Prisoner of War
1945-05-31 Retired
Picture source: Courtesy of Valdis Kursietis