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The following is a list of Italian-American soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines who were awarded the American military's highest decoration — the Medal of Honor.The Medal of Honor is bestowed "for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life, above and beyond the call of duty, in actual combat against an armed enemy force."
The internment of Italian Americans refers to the US government's internment of Italian nationals during World War II. As was customary after Italy and the US were at war, they were classified as " enemy aliens " and some were detained by the Department of Justice under the Alien and Sedition Act .
Image Name Service Rank Place of action Date of action Notes Lucian Adams: Army: Staff Sergeant: near St. Dié, France October 28, 1944: Personally killed 9 Germans, eliminated 3 enemy machine guns, vanquished a specialized force which was armed with automatic weapons and grenade launchers, cleared the woods of hostile elements, and reopened the severed supply lines to the assault companies of ...
Italian-Americans in the United States began to look into the low-security Italian POW camps to find relatives, family friends or those from their hometowns. Some Roman Catholic churches hosted dinners on Sunday where local Italian-Americans visited with Italian POWs in the camps. Italian POWs could often leave the camp, escorted by a US soldier.
Sgt. John Basilone - USMC, Medal of Honor recipient of World War II; Major John Belli - Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army 1792–1794; Corporal Anthony Casamento - USMC, Medal of Honor recipient of World War II; Christopher G. Cavoli - commander of United States European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe; Lieutenant General Peter ...
Over 1.5 million Italian-American soldiers served in World War II, accounting for 10% of the armed forces, of whom 14 won Medals of Honor. [23] While Italian-Americans were in general enthusiastic participants in the Allied cause, several Italian-language newspapers were forced to close because of past support of the fascist government of ...
Gino Merli (front row, second from left) at the Medal of Honor presentation June 15, 1945. Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Merli was the son of a coal miner.He entered service in the United States Army from Peckville in July 1943 [2] and served with the 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division.
The Biscari massacre was a war crime committed by members of the United States Army during World War II. [1] [2] It refers to two incidents in which U.S. soldiers were involved in killing 71 unarmed Italian and 2 German prisoners-of-war at the Regia Aeronautica ' s 504 air base in Santo Pietro, a small village near Caltagirone, southern Sicily, Italy on 14 July 1943.
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