The 3rd Mountain Infantry Division (Ravenna) was a mountain infantry division of the Italian Army during World War II. The Ravenna Division was mobilized for war in October 1939. They were part of the Italian III Corps, First Army during the Italian invasion of France. They also took part in the Invasion of Yugoslavia as part of the Italian XI Corps. The division was one of the twelve divisions that served on the Eastern Front as part of the Italian Army in Russia. The division was destroyed in Operation Little Saturn, the Red Army's offensive operation which consisted of a pincer movement which threatened to cut off the forces attempting to reach Stalingrad. The 1st Guards Army and the 3rd Guards Army attacked from the north, encircling 130,000 soldiers of the Italian 8th Army on the Don