page_title: 182nd Armored Infantry Regiment "Garibaldi"
section_title: Partisan Division "Garibaldi"
hierarchical_section_title: 182nd Armored Infantry Regiment "Garibaldi" / History / Partisan Division "Garibaldi"
caption_attribution_description: Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски: Italijanska partizanska brigada Garibaldi defiluje Pljevljima na godišnjicu oktobarske revolucije 1943.
context_page_description: The 182nd Armored Infantry Regiment "Garibaldi" is an inactive unit of the Italian Army last based in Sacile in Friuli Venezia Giulia. The regiment was part of the Italian army's infantry and was last operationally assigned to the Infantry Division "Folgore". The regiment was an atypical unit of the Italian Army: formed without a sister regiment from partisan formations it was the only infantry regiment to be formed by the army after World War II and was the only unit, whose members wore a red tie with their formal uniform.
context_section_description: The news of the armistice between Italy and the Allies reached the Italian XIV Army Corps in the evening of 8 September 1943 and due to the lack of any orders from Rome the four divisions of the corps reacted differently and individually to German demands to surrender: the 23rd Infantry Division "Ferrara" surrendered immediately. The 155th Infantry Division "Emilia" based around Kotor resisted the Germans until 16 September, but under heavy Luftwaffe air attacks chose evacuation by the Italian Regia Marina to Bari. The 19th Infantry Division "Venezia" based around Podgorica refused to surrender and allied with Yugoslav partisans. On 10 October the division entered the 2nd Corps of Tito's National Liberation Army and on 13 October 1943 the division began an offensive against Wehrmacht forces in Brodarevo, Murina, Berane e Kolašin. The 1st Alpine Division "Taurinense" based around Nikšić and Danilovgrad immediately attacked German positions and by sunrise of 9 September was fully engaged in combat with German forces. The division tried to reach Kotor to be evacuated, but in heavy combat lost about half its strength of 14,000 men. The division's Mountain Artillery Group "Aosta" of the 1st Mountain Artillery Regiment and Alpini Battalion "Ivrea" had ignored orders to move to Kotor and sided with Tito's forces right away. By early October the remnants of the Italian divisions, more than 20,000 men, retreated towards Pljevlja.
  On 2 December 1943 in Pljevlja the remaining Italian soldiers, approximately 16,000 men, were grouped together in the Partisan Division "Garibaldi", which as unit insignia chose a red neckerchief in referral to Giuseppe Garibaldi's redshirt volunteers. The division consisted of three brigades of 5,000 men each, with the remaining Italians, mostly artillery, signals, engineer, and medical specialists, becoming instructors. Integrated into the Partisan 2nd Corps the division fought in Yugoslavia until February 1945, when the remaining 3,800 troops were repatriated via the liberated Dubrovnik.
  The units, which entered the Partisan Division "Garibaldi" as coherent units, were awarded with Italy's highest military honor after their return:
  Mountain Artillery Group "Aosta"  Gold Medal of Military Valour awarded on 13 January 1945
  83rd Infantry Regiment "Venezia"  Gold Medal of Military Valour awarded on 15 March 1950
  84th Infantry Regiment "Venezia"  Gold Medal of Military Valour awarded on 15 March 1950
  19th Field Artillery Regiment "Venezia"  Gold Medal of Military Valour awarded on 15 March 1950
  Alpini Battalion "Ivrea"  Silver Medal of Military Valour awarded on 31 December 1947
caption: Alpini of the "Taurinense" in Pljevlja October 1943
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