52nd Field Artillery Regiment "Torino"
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The 52nd Field Artillery Regiment "Torino" (Italian: 52° Reggimento Artiglieria Terrestre "Torino") is an artillery regiment of the Italian Army trained for divisional artillery support. Since September 2020 the regiment is based together with the 8th Field Artillery Regiment "Pasubio" in Persano in Campania. The regiment is assigned to the army's Artillery Command.[4][5]
52nd Field Artillery Regiment "Torino" | |
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52° Reggimento Artiglieria Terrestre "Torino" | |
Active | June 1916 — Dec. 1918 25 Feb. 1935 — 9 Dec. 1936 1 Oct. 1938 — 13 Sept. 1943 1 Jan. 1947 — today[1] |
Country | Italy |
Branch | Italian Army |
Part of | Artillery Command |
Garrison/HQ | Persano |
Motto(s) | "Domino e domo" |
Anniversaries | 15 June 1918 - Second Battle of the Piave River |
Decorations | 1x Gold Medal of Military Valor[2] 1x Bronze Medal of Military Valor[3] |
Insignia | |
Regimental gorget patches |
Originally an artillery regiment of the Royal Italian Army, the regiment was formed during World War I and disbanded after the war. The regiment was reformed in 1935 during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, but disbanded after the war in 1936. The regiment was reformed in 1938 and assigned in World War II to the 52nd Infantry Division "Torino", with which the regiment was deployed to the Eastern Front, where division and regiment were destroyed during Operation Little Saturn. After the division's survivors were repatriated to Italy the 159th Infantry Division "Veneto" was used to reform the 52nd Infantry Division "Torino" and its regiments. The division and its regiments were disbanded by invading German forces after the announcement of the Armistice of Cassibile on 8 September 1943.[1][5]
The regiment was reformed in 1947 and assigned to the Infantry Division "Cremona". In 1957 the regiment was transferred to the III Army Corps. In 1975 the regiment was reduced to 52nd Field Artillery Group "Venaria" and assigned to the Mechanized Brigade "Brescia". After the end of the Cold War the group was assigned to the Mechanized Brigade "Legnano" and reorganized as a regiment. In 1995 the regiment took over the personnel, materiel, and base of the 131st Self-propelled Field Artillery Regiment "Centauro" and then joined the Mechanized Brigade "Centauro". In 2001 the regiment was assigned to the Cavalry Brigade "Pozzuolo del Friuli" and in 2005 to the Artillery Brigade. In 2016 the regiment left Vercelli in Lombardy and moved to Bracciano in Lazio and in 2019 from there to Persano in Campania.[1][5][6] The regimental anniversary falls, as for all Italian Army artillery regiments, on June 15, the beginning of the Second Battle of the Piave River in 1918.[4]