On 1 February 1938 the III Cavalry Brigade "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta" was dissolved and its units came under direct command of the division.

[1] In March 1941 the division had to transfer its 3rd Fast Artillery Regiment "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta" with the II and III motorized groups to Libya, where it was assigned to the 17th Infantry Division "Pavia" to replace the 26th Artillery Regiment, which had been destroyed by British forces during the Battle of Beda Fomm on 6–7 February 1941.

On 28 September the Pasubio forced the river and the division's of the Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia went on the offensive, which brought them to Stalino (today Donetsk) by 13 October.

The divisions continued their slowing offensive until 25th December, when the Soviets launched a determined counterattack in the Christmas Battle.

[1] On 15 March 1942 the division was radically reorganized: it received the 6th Bersaglieri Regiment from the 2nd Cavalry Division "Emanuele Filiberto Testa di Ferro", the 120th Motorized Artillery Regiment,[3] the LXVII Armored Bersaglieri Battalion (two companies of L6/40 light tanks), the IX Mortar Battalion, the XIII Squadrons Group/ Regiment "Cavalleggeri di Alessandria", with two squadrons of Semovente 47/32 self-propelled guns, and an expanded complement of mortars and anti-tank weapons.

[4][1] In April 1942, the division was further reinforced when the Croatian Light Transport Brigade arrived at the front and was attached to the "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta".

The last troops were withdrawn to Italy in March 1943 and garrisoned in Bologna and Imola, where the process of rebuilding the division began.