Angelico Carta

Angelico Carta
Carta at his HQ in Neapoli, 1942.
Born	1886
Allegiance	Kingdom of Italy
Service/branch	Royal Italian Army
Rank	Lieutenant General
Unit	51st Infantry Division Siena

Angelico (Angelo) Carta (born 1886 in Riola Sardo) was an Italian military officer. During the Axis occupation of Crete in World War II.

Following the Armistice of Cassibile, Angelico Carta the commander of the 51st Infantry Division Siena stationed in east Crete, decided to side against the fascist Italian Social Republic. He contacted the Special Operations Executive (SOE) through the division's counter-intelligence officer, arranging that he and members of his staff sympathetic to the Allied cause be smuggled to Egypt along with the defence plans for the east of the island. After abandoning his car north-east of Neapoli as a diversion, Carta and his comrades set foot for south-west. Evading German patrols and observation planes he embarked a Motor Torpedo Boat at Soutsouro reaching Mersa Matruh the next afternoon, on 23 September 1943.