[2] The division was activated on 15 April 1942 in Naples by uniting the two coastal defense sectors "Salerno" and "Sapri".

[3] From April to December 1942 the division was assigned to XXX Army Corps, which then moved to Tunisia and was destroyed in the Tunisian Campaign.

[1] The division had its headquarter in Buccoli a subdivision of Battipaglia and was responsible for the coastal defense of the coast of southern Campania between the lighthouse of Capo d'Orso in Maiori and the mouth of the river Noce at Castrocucco.

[1] After the announcement of the Armistice of Cassibile in the evening of 8 September 1943 German forces ambushed the division's commander General Ferrante Vincenzo Gonzaga and his staff and demanded he order his troops to disarm and that he surrender his gun.

[5] The next morning Allied troops landed at Salerno and the remnants of the division dissolved quickly and left the area.