18th Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment (Italy)
military unit
The 18th Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment (Italian: 18° Reggimento Artiglieria Controaerei) is an inactive air defense regiment of the Italian Army, which was based in Rimini in the Emilia Romagna. Originally an artillery regiment of the Royal Italian Army, the regiment was formed in 1888 and served in World War I on the Italian front. In 1935, the regiment was assigned to the 24th Infantry Division "Gran Sasso", which fought in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. In 1939, the division was renamed 24th Infantry Division "Pinerolo". In World War II the Pinerolo division fought in the Greco-Italian War, after which the division remained in occupied Greece on anti-partisan duty. The division and regiment were located in Thessaly, when the Armistice of Cassibile was announced on 8 September 1943. The division resisted German demands to surrender and moved into the Pindus mountain range, where the division was disarmed by the Greek People's Liberation Army.
In 1947, the Italian Army reformed the regiment and assigned it one year later to the Infantry Division "Mantova". In 1951, the regiment was disbanded and reformed once more in 1952. In 1953, the regiment was reorganized as an anti-aircraft artillery regiment and, on 1 June 1953, the regiment was transferred from the field artillery to the anti-aircraft specialty.
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