Formed since September 1944, the Combat Groups were the rearmed and equipped copy of the binary divisions of the Italian organization of 1940.
The personnel received the khaki uniforms of the British Army, composed of a short jacket with buttons, two patched pockets with flap and button.
The jacket was tight at the waist with a wide cloth belt adjustable through two ribbons with a passer at the waist. The trousers, baggy and comfortable, they had four pockets and one on the front in addition to a wide pocket on the left leg (located on the front quadriceps).
The trousers were attached to the ankles through raw hemp gaiters closed by canvas buckles. The British footwear were black ankle boots.
The pan-shaped helmet completed the uniform. The elements that make our soldiers recognizable were the bars and the rank insignia positioned on the epaulettes of all except corporals and sergeants.
On the epaulettes at first and later on the left sleeve, our soldiers had the tricolour insignia (in the form of a ribbon on the epaulettes) and a tricolour rectangle; at the centre, in the white box, there was the distinctive of the Combat Group.
A summer uniform was also distributed, composed of a shirt having two pockets with flap and central rolled pleat, long or short cotton trousers.
Also the paratroopers appreciated the new uniforms even if they continued to use the grey-green berets, and the helmet.