Delease (''Delegazione Africa Settentrionale'', North Africa Delegation) was a

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body of the Supreme Command of the Italian Armed Forces, with headquarters in Tobruk and jurisdiction over North Africa, during the Second World War, which served as liaison between the tactical command of Panzer Army Africa and the Italian Supreme Command in Rome, and managed its logistics. Among its commanders were

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and

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, who had won the esteem of

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. As of 23 October 1942 it had the functions of an army command, to which three army corps commands were subordinated, ''Delease1'' (

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, responsible for the logistics of

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), ''Delease2'' (

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, responsible for the logistics of Cyrenaica) and ''Delease3'' ( 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. Delease ceased to function on 16 November 1942, after the retreat following the second battle of El Alamein, and its functions were transferred to ''Superlibia'', the High Command in Libya.

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