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Mario Arillo

November 5, 2011 By
movm6002

Mario Arillo was born in La Spezia on the 25 March 1912 and soon showed a great passion for the sea and the desire of following a career in the Royal Navy

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Carlo Fecia Conte di Cossato

October 23, 2011 By
Fecia di Cossatoa

With 16 strikes for 86,500 tons, he was the ace of the aces and the second by tonnage of the Italian submarine force in the Second World War

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Gianfranco Gazzana Priaroggia

October 16, 2011 By
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With 10 ships totaling 90,000 tons, he was one of the major submarine aces. The Republic gave his name to one of its ex American submarines in service during the 1970-1980’s and to the submarine class “Sauro” that entered in service in 1995.

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Field Marshal Emilio De Bono

October 14, 2011 By
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Son of a career military officer, Emilio de Bono was born in Cassano D’adda in 1866. After completing the Milano Military College, and the Modena Military Academy, he became Lieutenant in 1886, and enrolled as voluntary on the III Bersaglieri regiment in the Eritrea colonial war.

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Field Marshal Rodolfo Graziani

October 11, 2011 By
RodolfoGraziani

Graziani was the only Marshal to stay loyal to Mussolini and was appointed Minister of Defense of the RSI. He also commanded the mixed Italo-German “Armee Ligurien”. Arrested in 1945, he was sentenced to 19 years in prison in 1950, but released in the same year. He died in Rome on January 11, 1955.

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