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Jacqueline Simon- Moncorgé

Le 30 juin 1944, 60 femmes volontaires de la Mission militaire française de liaison administrative, ou MMLA, a atterri a...

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Inigo Campioni

Inigo Campioni's name is not well known outside military circles, but his story is one of the most dramatic in 20th cent...

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Don Aldo Mei

Aldo Mei est né à Ruota di Capannori en 1912 et est entré au séminaire en 1925. Pendant la guerre, il a prêché contre la...

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Roberto Bartolozzi

Avec le bombardement de l'usine de La Spezia, il a déménagé à Lucca. Là, après le 8 septembre, il entre en contact avec ...

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Bogardo Buricchi

Bogardo Buricchi, poète de Prato, a donné vie à une formation de partisans. Il est mort en juin 1944, en faisant sauter ...

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Colin Wells Eglin

Colin Eglin était un soldat sud-africain qui a combattu sur la ligne Gothique. Après la guerre, il a fondé un parti, a é...

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Peter Tompkins

Peter Tompkins was one of the protagonists of the "war of spies" played out in occupied Italy. In the postwar period, he...

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Giorgio Marincola

Long forgotten, the figure of Giorgio Marincola has been rediscovered in recent years as a symbol of the colonial crimes...

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Mark Wayne Clark

US General Mark Wayne Clark at the beginning of WWII was the main collaborator of General Dwight Eisenhower. He took com...

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Giuseppe Maria Palatucci

Mons. Giuseppe Maria Palatucci was born in Montella, in the province of Avellino, on 25 April 1892 to Giovanni and Carme...

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Eugenio Curiel

Eugenio Curiel was one of the most brilliant and tragic figures of the Italian Resistance. A brilliant scientist but a r...

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Edgardo Sogno

Edgardo Sogno played several pivotal roles in Italian history. During the Resistance, he stood out as the founder of the...

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The Resistance of Sesto San Giovanni workers

Sesto San Giovanni, north of Milan, is the city's most important industrial area and among the most important in Italy. ...

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From Polytechnic to 'Polytechnic'

Milan has always been the city of technology. The Polytechnic, its specialised university, was one of the hubs of the Re...

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Giovanni Palatucci

Giovanni Palatucci was born in Montella (Avellino) on 29 May 1909. There were three ecclesiastical persons in his family...

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Vincenzo Ferrante Gonzaga

Vincenzo Ferrante Gonzaga was an Italian soldier who died in WWII, and he was awarded a gold and silver medal of militar...

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Maiella Brigade

The Maiella Brigade is a partisan formation that operated near the Gustav Line during the campaign to liberate Italy fro...

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The 1st Italian Motorised Regiment

The 1st Motorised Regiment was the first combat unit of the reconstituted Italian army to be involved in Allied military...

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Italian Liberation Corps

The Italian Liberation Corps were a military unit of the reconstituted Italian army that from March 1944 directly contri...

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Réunion symbolique de Don Malarkey au Bois Jacques

Le sergent Donald 'Don' Malarkey était membre du 506e régiment d'infanterie parachutiste de la 101e division aéroportée ...

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Addi Bâ Mamadou

Addi Bâ Mamadou, ou Hady Bah Mamadou, est né en 1916 en Guinée. Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il a été soldat dans...

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Oldřich Babka

Oldřich Babka, born in Pilsen in 1925, was a grammar school student during the war and was forced to join the local Ger...

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Luděk Dembrovský

Luděk Dembovský was born on December 11, 1929 and grew up in Pilsen. In May 1945, he experienced bombing and the arrival...

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Josef Vlach

Josef Vlach was born on 20 September 1919 in Pilsen. At the outbreak of war, he fought against the German invasion of Cz...

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