Troop arm shield 3rd Division Infantry "MONFERRATO"

The 3rd Infantry Division "Ravenna" was a large unit of the Royal Army, operational during
 the Second World War. In particular, it was a division of mountain infantry, which was
 distinguished from the analogous ordinary infantry units by the traction of the divisional 
artillery regiment, which was composed of two groups with a bow and one with a trolley, instead 
of two horse trainees and one with a bow. the use of baggage instead of the classic carriage.
 With the progress of the war and the progressive motorization of a considerable part of the 
divisional artillery, the mountain divisions became substantially indistinguishable from the 
normal infantry divisions, and the specific denomination gradually fell into disuse.

the division participated in the Italian campaign of Russia and was practically destroyed by 
the Red Army during the Little Saturn operation, from December 1942 to January 1943; the 
survivors were repatriated in the spring.