# Delease

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**Delease** (*Delegazione Africa Settentrionale*, North Africa Delegation) was a [colonial](/source/Colonialism) body of the [Supreme Command of the Italian Armed Forces](/source/Comando_Supremo), with headquarters in [Tobruk](/source/Tobruk) and jurisdiction over [North Africa](/source/North_Africa), during the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War), which served as liaison between the tactical command of [Panzer Army Africa](/source/Panzer_Army_Africa) and the Italian Supreme Command in [Rome](/source/Rome), and managed its [logistics](/source/Logistics).[1][2]

*Delease* was commanded by [Curio Barbasetti](/source/Curio_Barbasetti_di_Prun) who had won the esteem of [Erwin Rommel](/source/Erwin_Rommel). As of 23 October 1942 it had the functions of an army command, to which three army corps commands were subordinated, *Delease1* ([Tripoli](/source/Tripoli,_Libya), responsible for the logistics of [Tripolitania](/source/Tripolitania)), *Delease2* ([Benghazi](/source/Benghazi), responsible for the logistics of [Cyrenaica](/source/Cyrenaica)) and *Delease3* ([Marsa Matruh](/source/Marsa_Matruh), responsible for the logistics of the three army corps at the front), as well as the command of the North Africa Intendency, under General Vittorio Palma.[3][4]

Delease ceased to function on 16 November 1942, after the retreat following the [Second Battle of El Alamein](/source/Second_Battle_of_El_Alamein), and its functions were transferred to *Superlibia*, the High Command in [Libya](/source/Libya).[5]

## References

1. Crociani, Piero & Battistelli, Pier Paolo (November 20, 2013). [*Italian soldier in North Africa 1941–43*](https://books.google.com/books?id=pI7vCwAAQBAJ&dq=delease+delegazione+africa&pg=PT133). Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781780968575. – via Google Books.

1. Cesvam, Centro Studi (23 October 2020). ["Antonio Trogu.1942 Africa Settentrionale. El Alamein – Istituto del Nastro Azzurro"](http://www.istitutodelnastroazzurro.org/2020/10/23/1942-africa-settentrionale-el-alamein/)

1. ["Delegazione (del Comando) Africa Settentrionale, 23.10.42"](https://archive.today/20120905053002/http://www.ordersofbattle.darkscape.net/site/ww2/drleo/019_italy/42-10-23/_delease.html). Archived from [the original](http://www.ordersofbattle.darkscape.net/site/ww2/drleo/019_italy/42-10-23/_delease.html) on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2021.

1. ["Rommel Panzerarmee Afrika #2"](https://issuu.com/orazio/docs/rommel_vol2/52). *Issuu*. 23 May 2012.

1. ["La Posta Militare Italiana in Tunisia (1942-1943)"](http://www.giuseppemarchese.it/articoli/art_83/art83.html). May 13, 2006. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20060513065538/http://www.giuseppemarchese.it/articoli/art_83/art83.html) 2006-05-13 at the Wayback Machine.

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