In January 1944, the regiment was disbanded and its personnel used to form to the CLXXXV Paratroopers Battalion "Nembo", while the 9th Company, which had operated as an autonomous unit on the allied side since September 1943, was renamed 1st Reconnaissance Squadron "Folgore".

[2][3] The regiment's anniversary falls on 20 April 1945, the day the paratroopers of the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron "Folgore", departed the United States Army Air Forces airfield at Rosignano for Operation Herring.

In the early hours of the afternoon, the paratroopers conducted the first Italian airborne assault near Argostoli on the Greek island of Cephalonia.

In July 1942, after the First Battle of El Alamein, the invasion of Malta was postponed indefinitely and the Royal Italian Army's General Staff decided to send the Paratroopers Division to North Africa to reinforce the depleted German-Italian Panzer Army Africa at El Alamein in Egypt.

The grouping operated in the area of Črni Vrh, Vipava, Zadlog, Postojna and Ajdovščina until June 1943.

[3][9] In July, the 185th Infantry Regiment "Nembo", which at the time consisted of the III, VIII/bis, and XI paratroopers battalions, and III Paratroopers Artillery Group of the 184th Artillery Regiment "Nembo" were sent to Apulia in southern Italy to guard Royal Italian Air Force airfields on the Salento peninsula.

On 3 August 1943, the regiment took up its positions on the northern slopes of the Peloritani mountains between Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto and Castroreale.

However, the American Seventh Army's advance was unstoppable and the regiment was forced to fall back to Messina.

Allied airpower forced the regiment to abandon all its vehicles and materiel and retreat by foot over the mountains.

[3][9] On 3 September 1943, British and Canadian forces landed on the Calabrian coast: the 5th British Infantry Division between Bagnara Calabra and Villa San Giovanni, and the 1st Canadian Infantry Division between Reggio Calabria and Melito di Porto Salvo.

On 7 September, the VIII/bis Paratroopers Battalion reached the road passing from Platì to Santa Cristina d'Aspromonte and found it occupied by Canadian forces moving towards Delianuova.

[3][9][10] In the evening of 8 September 1943, the same day the VIII/bis Paratroopers Battalion was annihilated, 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.

[9] The 185th Infantry Regiment "Nembo", which consisted of the XI Paratroopers Battalion, joined the Italian Co-belligerent Army, which was formed in southern Italy with the forces that had remained loyal to King Victor Emmanuel III.

The battalion was assigned to the brigade-sized I Motorized Grouping, which was attached to the American Fifth Army and fought in the Battle of Monte Cassino.

[11] In June 1944, the CLXXXV Paratroopers Battalion "Nembo" was sent to Brindisi to train for an air assault near Florence.

However the air assault was cancelled and, in September 1944, when the Italian Liberation Corps was disbanded and its personnel used to create two division-sized combat groups, the CLXXXV Paratroopers Battalion "Nembo" was disbanded and its personnel assigned to the Paratroopers Regiment "Nembo" of the Combat Group "Folgore".

[12] On 15 January 1944, the company assumed the name of 1st Reconnaissance Squadron "Folgore" (Squadron "F") and continued to operate behind German lines until the middle of March 1944, when it was transferred to Sesto Campano in Apulia for a training cycle with the British Special Air Service that ended in early May.

[2][3] Afterwards, the squadron conducted reconnaissance missions, patrols, infiltration and sabotage actions behind the German lines.

In October 1944, the squadron received additional reinforcements from the disbanded CLXXXV Paratroopers Battalion "Nembo".

At the end of March 1945, the squadron came under the direct command of the allied 15th Army Group and around a hundred of its paratroopers began to train for an airborne operation behind German lines.

[3] On 20 April 1945, the paratroopers of the Squadron "F" jumped in Operation Herring, the war's final airborne combat drop, into the area of Poggio Rusco.

Both battalions were destroyed during the Second Battle of El Alamein and declared lost due to wartime events on 25 November 1942.

[2][3] On 12 November 1976, the President of the Italian Republic Giovanni Leone assigned with decree 846 the flag and traditions of the 185th Infantry Regiment "Folgore" to the 3rd Paratroopers Battalion "Poggio Rusco".

[2] On 19 September 2014, the Italian Army's Army Special Forces Command was formed in Pisa and the 185th Paratroopers Reconnaissance Target Acquisition Regiment "Folgore" was transferred from the Paratroopers Brigade "Folgore" to the newly formed command.

[15][16] On 3 November 2018, the regiment was awarded a Military Order of Italy for its conduct and service during international missions.