[4][5][6] The regiment's anniversary falls, as for all units of the Italian Army's Transport and Materiel Corps, on 22 May, the anniversary of the Royal Italian Army's first major use of automobiles to transport reinforcements to the Asiago plateau to counter the Austro-Hungarian Asiago Offensive in May 1916.

On 11 November 1942, after the Allies had landed in French North Africa Italy and Germany occupied Vichy France in Operation Anton.

[8][9] After operations in Corsica concluded, the "Friuli" division was transferred to Sardinia, where it joined the Italian Co-belligerent Army.

In July 1944, the division was shipped to San Giorgio del Sannio in southern Italy, where it was equipped with British weapons and materiel.

From there the combat group advanced with the allied armies and liberated Imola, Castel San Pietro and Bologna.

[10] On 12 November 1976, the President of the Italian Republic Giovanni Leone granted with decree 846 the battalion a flag.

[1][6][11] In 1981, the battalion was reorganized and consisted afterwards of the following units:[6] After the end of the Cold War the Italian Army began to draw down its forces.