11th Engineer Regiment (Italy)

The regiment is the engineer unit of the Mechanized Brigade "Pinerolo" and was first formed in 1928 by the Royal Italian Army.

After the announcement of the Armistice of Cassibile on 8 September 1943 the regiment was disbanded by invading German forces.

[2][3][4] In 1975, the battalion was named for the Livenza river and received the number 132nd, which had been used by the 132nd Engineer Company that served with the 132nd Armored Division "Ariete" during the Western Desert campaign in World War II.

In 2001, the regiment moved to Foggia in the South of Italy, where it was assigned to the Mechanized Brigade "Pinerolo".

It also provided 35 Officers and 1,245 enlisted to fill out units deployed to East Africa for the war.

In the evening of 8 September 1943, the Armistice of Cassibile, which ended hostilities between the Kingdom of Italy and the Anglo-American Allies, was announced by General Dwight D. Eisenhower on Radio Algiers and by Marshal Pietro Badoglio on Italian radio.

Germany reacted by invading Italy and the 11th Engineer Regiment was disbanded soon thereafter by German forces.

In November 1942, the "Ariete" division and with it the CXXXII Mixed Engineer Battalion were destroyed during the Second Battle of El Alamein.

On 1 July 1958, the company entered the newly formed Engineer Battalion "Ariete" in Motta di Livenza.

For its work after the 1966 Venice flood the battalion was awarded a Bronze Medal of Civil Valor.

Also on the same day, the "Livenza" battalion transferred the three engineer companies, which had been formed during the 1963 reform, to the three new brigades.

[4][6] On 12 November 1976, the President of the Italian Republic Giovanni Leone assigned with decree 846 the flag and traditions of the 11th Engineer Regiment to the battalion.

A VTMM "Orso" Route Clearing vehicle of the Italian engineer corps