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The latter battalion was formed on 1 July 1940 and fought in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II. The Royal Italian Air Force also had paratrooper units. In 1941 the staff at Castel Benito was transferred to Tarquinia near Rome where the main Italian Parachuting School was raised, which immediately began to form the first units for the ...
After World War II the Combat Group "Folgore" became one of the Italian Army's first divisions and by 1954 one of the strongest. The Infantry Division "Folgore" was mechanized infantry unit based in the North-eastern Italian city of Treviso. Airborne troops and operations were to be performed by the Military Parachuting Centre in Pisa.
185th Infantry Division "Folgore" (Italian: 185ª Divisione fanteria "Folgore") was an airborne forces division of the Royal Italian Army during World War II.The division was formed in Tarquinia near Rome on 1 September 1941.
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The battalion's 23rd Paratroopers Sappers Company remained in Italy to train the paratroopers sappers destined for the 184th Infantry Division "Nembo". On 27 July 1942, the Paratroopers Division was renamed 185th Infantry Division "Folgore". The "Folgore" division and its units were destroyed during the Second Battle of El Alamein. On 25 ...
The regiment was assigned to the Paratroopers Division, which was intended to parachute onto Malta during the planned invasion of Malta. In July 1942, the invasion of Malta was postponed indefinitely. In September 1942, the "Folgore" division was sent to North Africa to reinforce the German-Italian Panzer Army Africa at El Alamein.
The 184th Infantry Division "Nembo" (Italian: 184ª Divisione fanteria "Nembo") was an airborne division of the Royal Italian Army during World War II. After the Armistice of Cassibile the division joined the Italian Co-belligerent Army's Italian Liberation Corps and together with the Polish II Corps liberated Ancona in the Battle of Ancona. [1]
Originally an artillery regiment of the Royal Italian Army, the regiment was assigned in World War II to the 185th Infantry Division "Folgore", with which the regiment was deployed to North Africa for the Western Desert campaign, during which division and regiment were destroyed in the Second Battle of El Alamein.