Angelico Carta
Carta at his HQ inNeapoli, 1942.
Born	1886
Died	Unknown
Allegiance	Kingdom of Italy
Branch	Royal Italian Army
Rank	Lieutenant General
Unit	51st Infantry Division Siena XIII Army Corps

Angelico (Angelo) Carta (born 1886 inRiola Sardo) was an Italian military officer, best known for his actions during theAxis occupation ofCrete inWorld War II.

Carta was an artillery officer and became commander of the51st Infantry Division Siena on 7 January 1941. He participated in theGreco-Italian War and theBattle of Greece. After the Greek capitulation, the Siena Division was sent to thePeloponnese as an occupation force in Greece until late September 1941, when the division was transferred toCrete.^[1]

In 1943, Angelico Carta held the rank ofLieutenant general and still commanded the51st Infantry Division Siena which was assigned to the occupation of the eastern Cretan provinces ofSitia and Lasithi. He was aroyalist rather than afascist and in contrast to the commanders of theGerman garrison in the western and central parts of Crete, he generally behaved with restraint to the local population.

Following theArmistice of Cassibile, Carta decided to side against the fascistItalian Social Republic. He contacted theSpecial Operations Executive (SOE) majorPatrick Leigh Fermor through the division's counter-intelligence officer, arranging that he and members of his staff sympathetic to theAllies be smuggled to Egypt along with the defense plans for the east of the island. After abandoning his car north-east of the divisional headquarters inNeapoli as a diversion, Carta and his comrades set foot for south-west. Evading German patrols and observation planes he embarked aMotor Torpedo Boat at Tsoutsouro reachingMersa Matruh the next afternoon, on 23 September 1943.^[2][3]

After his return to Italy, Carta became commander of theXIII Army Corps in November 1943, as replacement for generalGustavo Reisoli, who hadn't opposed the retreat of the German troops on the island to Corsica in September.

• Koukounas, Demosthenes (2013).Η Ιστορία της Κατοχής [History of the Occupation] (in Greek). Vol. II. Athens: Livani.ISBN 978-960-14-2687-7.
• Leigh Fermor, Patrick (2014).Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete. London: John Murray.ISBN 978-1-4447-9658-2.

This article about a notable individual during World War II is astub. You can help Wikipedia byadding missing information.

• v
• t
• e

This biographical article related to the Italian military is astub. You can help Wikipedia byadding missing information.

• v
• t
• e

• 1886 births
• Royal Italian Army personnel of World War II
• Italian Army generals
• Italian occupation of Greece during World War II
• Crete in World War II
• World War II biography stubs
• Italian military personnel stubs

• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Pages with invalid birth or death dates
• CS1 Greek-language sources (el)
• Year of death missing
• All stub articles