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51st Engineer Battalion "Simeto"

The 51st Engineer Battalion "Simeto" is a military engineering unit of the Italian Army last based in Palermo in Sicily. During the later half of World War I the Royal Italian Army's 2nd Engineer Regiment (Sappers) formed an engineer battalion with the number LI, which served on the Italian Front. In 1935, in preparation for the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, the 4th Engineer Regiment formed an engineer battalion, which received the same number. After the annexation of Ethiopia the battalion remained active and served in the Western Desert campaign and Tunisian campaign of World War II. In 1943, the Italian Co-belligerent Army formed an engineer battalion with the number LI, which was initially assigned to the I Motorized Grouping, then the Italian Liberation Corps, and finally the Combat Group "Legnano". The battalion fought on the allied side in the war's Italian campaign.

History
World War I On 22 May 1916, the depot of the 2nd Engineer Regiment (Sappers) in Casale Monferrato formed the LI Sappers Battalion. The battalion consisted of a command, and the 104th, 134th, and 156th sappers companies. The battalion served on the Asiago Plateau until it was disbanded on 1 March 1918. With the flag the battalion also received the traditions of all preceding engineer units numbered 51, as well as the traditions of the Engineer Battalion "Legnano" and the 12th Engineer Regiment, which had been based in Palermo from 1 October 1922 to July 1943, and whose motto the "Simeto" battalion inherited. The 51st Engineer Battalion "Simeto" consisted of a command, a command and services company, the 1st Engineer Company, and the Engineer Park Company. On 11 December 1985, the battalion formed the 2nd Engineer Company. Recent times After the Cold War the Italian Army began a reorganization of its forces: on 19 September 1992, the 51st Engineer Battalion "Simeto" in Palermo lost its autonomy and the next day the battalion entered the reformed 4th Pioneer Regiment as Pioneer Battalion "Simeto". As the flag of the 4th Engineer Regiment was still assigned to the 4th Engineer Battalion "Orta" in Trento, the reformed regiment continued to use temporarily the flag of the "Simeto" battalion. On 3 October 1993, 4th Engineer Battalion "Orta" lost its autonomy and the next day the battalion entered the reformed 1st Pioneer Regiment as Pioneer Battalion "Orta". As the flag of the 1st Engineer Regiment was still stored at the Shrine of the Flags in the Vittoriano in Rome, the 1st Pioneer Regiment continued to use temporarily the flag of the 4th Engineer Regiment. On 13 October 1995, the 2nd Engineer Battalion "Iseo" in Bolzano was disbanded. On the same day, the flag of the 2nd Engineer Regiment, which had been assigned in 1975 to the 2nd Miners Battalion "Iseo", was transferred from Bolzano to Trento, where, upon the arrival of the flag, the 1st Pioneer Regiment was renamed 2nd Engineer Regiment, while the regiment's Pioneer Battalion "Orta" was renamed Sappers Battalion "Iseo". Afterwards, the flag of the 4th Engineer Regiment was transferred from Trento to Palermo, where it arrived and was assigned to the 4th Pioneer Regiment on 24 October 1995. Subsequently, the flag of the 51st Engineer Battalion "Simeto" was transferred to the Shrine of the Flags in the Vittoriano in Rome for safekeeping. == External links ==
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