Brigade_"Novara"
157th Infantry Division "Novara"
Military unit
The 157th Infantry Division "Novara" (Italian: 157ª Divisione di fanteria "Novara") was an infantry division of the Royal Italian Army during the World War II. The Novara was formed on 10 March 1942 and named for the city of Novara. The Novara was classified as an occupation infantry division, which meant that the division's artillery regiment consisted of two artillery groups instead of the three artillery groups of line infantry divisions and that the divisional mortar battalion was replaced by a divisional machine gun battalion. On 1 June 1943 the division was used to reform the 2nd Infantry Division "Sforzesca".[1][2]