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The first Italian paratrooper units were trained and formed shortly before World War II in Castel Benito, near Tripoli in Libya, where the first Military Parachuting School was located. Later the school was moved to Tarquinia in Italy. On 1 September 1941 the Royal Italian Army raised the 1st Paratroopers Division in Tarquinia. [1]
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 ...
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.
49th Infantry Division "Parma" 50th Infantry Division "Regina" 51st Infantry Division "Siena" 54th Infantry Division "Napoli" 56th Infantry Division "Casale" 57th Infantry Division "Lombardia" 58th Infantry Division "Legnano" 65th Infantry Division "Granatieri di Savoia" (Grenadiers of Savoy)
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.
To avoid confusion with the support units of the Mechanized Division "Folgore" and the Paratroopers Brigade "Folgore" the group was named for the city of Viterbo, where the first Italian paratrooper units had been trained by the Royal Italian Air Force's Paratroopers School. On 2 December of the same year the group raised a third howitzer ...
183rd Infantry Division "Ciclone" (Italian: 183ª Divisione fanteria "Ciclone") was a short-lived airborne division of the Royal Italian Army during World War II.The Ciclone began to form in summer 1943 at the Parachute School in Viterbo and by the end of summer four battalions had been trained.
The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place from 3 September 1943, during the Italian campaign of World War II.The operation was undertaken by General Sir Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group (comprising General Mark W. Clark's American Fifth Army and General Bernard Montgomery's British Eighth Army) and followed the successful Allied invasion ...