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The number of men killed has been estimated at 800. [7] The number of children born as a result of the Marocchinate is hard to estimate. The mayor of Esperia , a comune in the Province of Frosinone , reported that in his town, 700 women out of 2,500 inhabitants were raped, resulting in many deaths.
The majority of burials at the cemetery are of men that died fighting in the liberation of Sicily, code-named Operation Husky (10 July to 17 August 1943); in the landings at the Salerno, code-named Operation Avalanche (9 September 1943) and the heavy fighting northward; and the landings, code-named Operation Shingle, at Anzio and Nettuno and ...
Cassino (Italian pronunciation: [kasˈsiːno]) is a comune in the province of Frosinone, Southern Italy, at the southern end of the region of Lazio, the last city of the Latin Valley. [ 3 ] Cassino is located at the foot of Monte Cairo near the confluence of the Gari and Liri rivers.
The nearby town of Elena, separated after the Risorgimento and named after the queen of Italy, was reunited with Gaeta following World War I. Benito Mussolini transferred Gaeta from the southern region known today as Campania (formerly Terra di Lavoro, to which it is historically and culturally attached) to the central region of Lazio.
After World War II, the U.S. Army’s art experts set out to find and return millions of works stolen by the Nazis. Known as the Monuments Men, they included Mary Regan Quessenberry, who from her ...
Also, the original inhabitants became Romanized after the Social and the Samnite Wars. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the northern part of the province (officially referred to as Campagna since the 12th century [5]) belonged to the Papal States, while the region south of the Liri orbited around the powers of Benevento and then Naples.
World War II hero Lt. John R. Fox gave his life to save an Italian village, but it took decades for the bravery of Black soldiers to be recognized. Stuck between life and death in WWII, Cincy ...
The palace was completely destroyed during World War II, [83] while the villa was the scene of the Battle of Villa Doria between Italians and Germans on September 9, 1943, which ended with the death of twenty-six Italian soldiers. [134] The rubble of the palace was cleared in 1951 [83] to make way for the current Giuseppe Mazzini Square.