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The 3rd Rapid Division "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta" was a large unit of the Royal Army,
 operating during the Italian occupation of Albania and the Second World War. It was one
 of the three rapid divisions, or hybrid divisions initially composed of two cavalry regiments 
(each on two groups of mounted squadrons and one machine gun squadron, always mounted),
 by a regiment of cyclists (later truck-mounted), by an artillery a 75/27 Mod. 1912 horse-drawn
 group and two motorized 75/27 Mod. 1911 groups, and an armored group on 61 CV33 and 
L6 / 40 type wagons. The workforce as of 10 June 1940 was 7310 men, with 2154 horsepower,
 418 motor vehicles, 24 artillery tractors, 539 motorcycles and 2500 bicycles. The equipment,
 in addition to the aforementioned light tanks, included 48 cannons (16 anti-aircraft 20/65, 
8 anti-tank 47/32 Mod. 1935 and 24 field pieces of 75/27 Mod. 1912), 249 heavy machine guns 
and 172 light guns. Lacking effective operational capability in the context of mechanized warfare,
 the rapid divisions saw very limited operational use and were largely reused for the establishment 
of other types of units.

The names of great leaders of the House of Savoy were chosen for the rapid divisions;
 in particular this division had the name of Amedeo di Savoia-Aosta, founder of the Savoia-Aosta branch.


Descendant of the 3rd Cavalry Division of Lombardy, the "Principe Amedeo Duca d'Aosta" 
rapid division (P.A.D.A.) was established in Milan on 1 November 1934, framing the III "P.A.D.A." 
and the 3rd fast artillery regiment (Articelere) "P.A.D.A.". The III Rapid Brigade "P.A.D.A."
 it collected the traditions of the III Cavalry Brigade and framed the "Savoia Cavalleria" Regiment,
 the "Lancieri di Novara", the 3rd Bersaglieri cyclists Regiment and the III "San Giorgio" light 
tank group; when on 1 February 1938 the Command of the III Rapid Brigade was suppressed together 
with all the other undivided brigade commands, the cavalry and Bersaglieri regiments and the 
tank group passed directly to the Division Command. On 27 August of the same year, the division also
 incorporated the LXVII Armored Bersaglieri Battalion.