Italian Spanish Civil War Veterans

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Being that I am not real familiar with the Italian OOB, does anyone have an idea of what units in their 1940-1941 OOB would be best used for representing Spanish Civil War veterans?

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Being that I am not real familiar with the Italian OOB, does anyone have an idea of what units in their 1940-1941 OOB would be best used for representing Spanish Civil War veterans?


I suppose that you are interested to Italians foot soldiers on the Nationalist side.
In this case probably the best choice are the BlackShirts (CamicieNere, CCNN in spww2 oob): they were (about) half of the Italian CTV (Corpo Truppe Volontarie -> Corps of Volunteer Troops ) that fought in Spain.

Thanks to Mcgerm and GyJeX from NWI for their fundamental inputs to this answer.

A couple Weakipedia(!) links (at least good for a kick-off):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpo_Truppe_Volontarie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackshirts

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Thanks cyberdisc. Thats what I wanted to confirm before I got too far into the project.

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Being that I am not real familiar with the Italian OOB, does anyone have an idea of what units in their 1940-1941 OOB would be best used for representing Spanish Civil War veterans?


I suppose that you are interested to Italians foot soldiers on the Nationalist side.
In this case probably the best choice are the BlackShirts (CamicieNere, CCNN in spww2 oob): they were (about) half of the Italian CTV (Corpo Truppe Volontarie -> Corps of Volunteer Troops ) that fought in Spain.

Thanks to Mcgerm and GyJeX from NWI for their fundamental inputs to this answer.

A couple Weakipedia(!) links (at least good for a kick-off):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpo_Truppe_Volontarie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackshirts
but arent blackshirts second line infantry?