- 102nd Motorized Division "Trento"; destroyed in the Tunisian campaign 8th Bersaglieri Regiment (III, V, XII battalions) - 132nd Armored Division "Ariete"; destroyed in the Tunisian campaign; reformed in July 1943 9th Bersaglieri Regiment (XXVIII, XXX, XXXII battalions) - 101st Motorized Division "Trieste"; destroyed in the Second Battle of El Alamein 10th Bersaglieri Regiment (XVI, XXXIV, XXXV battalions) - German Division von Broich/von Manteuffel; destroyed in the Tunisian campaign 11th Bersaglieri Regiment (XV, XXVII, XXXIII battalions) - 1st Cavalry Division "Eugenio di Savoia"; from early 1942 attached to the 158th Infantry Division "Zara" 12th Bersaglieri Regiment (XXI, XXIII, XXXVI battalions) - 133rd Armored Division "Littorio"; destroyed in the Second Battle of El Alamein 18th Bersaglieri Armored Reconnaissance Regiment (LXVII, LXVIII, LXIX battalions) - garrison unit in the South of France; in spring 1942 the LXVII battalion was sent to the Eastern Front; remaining regiment joined the 136th Armored Legionary Division "Centauro" on 9 September 1943 in Rome The Bersaglieri fought in the Italian invasion of France and in the Greco-Italian War, later Bersaglieri regiments were deployed on the Eastern Front. One battalion of Bersaglieri participated in the East African Campaign. Six Bersaglieri regiments served and were destroyed during the North African Campaign. After the Armistice of Cassibile between the Kingdom of Italy and Western Allies on 8 September 1943, Italy split in half. The Republic of Salò continued the war alongside Nazi Germany. Its Army, the fascist National Republican Army, raised the 1st Bersaglieri Division "Italia", which was attached to the German 14th Army in a sector on the Northern Apennines. The division fought along the Gothic Line, and at the end of the final allied offensive, along with two Wehrmacht and the last fascist divisions, surrendered after the Battle of Collecchio. On the other side of the front the Italian Co-belligerent Army raised a Bersaglieri battalion as part of the Combat Group "Legnano" from remnants of the 4th Bersaglieri Regiment. Cold War During the Cold War the Bersaglieri were exclusively employed as mechanized infantry. The three active Bersaglieri regiments were assigned to the Army's armored divisions, with the 3rd and 8th regiments fielding two Bersaglieri and one tank battalion, while the 1st Armored Bersaglieri Regiment fielded two tank and one Bersaglieri battalion. Additionally each of the three active tank regiments fielded one Bersaglieri and two tank battalions, while the four armored infantry regiments of the motorized divisions fielded one