lost the 225th Infantry Regiment "Arezzo" and was renamed 24th Infantry Division "Pinerolo". This binary division consisted of only two infantry regiments (13th and 14th) and the 18th Field Artillery Regiment. In 1940 the division took part in the Italian invasion of France. In January 1941 the division arrived in Albania to stabilize the crumbling Italian front during the Greek counteroffensive in the Greco-Italian War. On 18 January 1941 the division was in Berat and entered the approaching front near Këlcyrë. The division fought defensive battles for the next month ending with the defense of Tepelenë. The division participated in the Italian Spring Offensive, and participated in a small offensive towards Ohrid in Macedonia during the German-led Invasion of Yugoslavia. In June 1941 the division transferred to Larissa in Thessaly to suppress the growing Greek Resistance movement. During its time in Thessaly the "Pinerolo" division committed the Domenikon Massacre against Greek civilians. The division continued on anti-partisan duty until the Armistice between Italy and Allied armed forces of 8 September 1943. In the confusion after the armistice the division was the only one in continental Greece to refuse German demands to surrender. While the "Piemonte", "Forlì", "Modena", "Casale" and "Cagliari" divisions surrendered to the inferior German forces the "Pinerolo" defended Larissa against German attacks and then retired towards the Pindus mountain range where it joined the Greek People's Liberation Army in fighting the Germans. The remnants of the division were repatriated to Italy in March 1945. Cold War On 1 April 1952 the Infantry Division "Pinerolo" was raised again in the city of Bari. The division consisted initially of the 9th Infantry Regiment "Bari" and the 13th Infantry Regiment "Pinerolo". Both regiments fielded two battalions, one less than the other divisions of the Army at the time. The division was rounded out by the 14th Field Artillery Regiment, the 9th Engineer Company and the 9th Signal Company. However already on 1 September 1962 the division was reduced to brigade. It consisted now of the 9th Infantry Regiment "Bari" (with three infantry battalions) and the Field Artillery Group "Pinerolo". Minor units of the brigade were a Signal Company and an Engineer company. During the next years the Supply, Repairs, Recovery Unit "Pinerolo" was raised in Bari and on 30 October 1965 the LX Armored Battalion joined the brigade. With the 1975 army reform the Italian Army abolished the regimental level and