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Sicily–Rome American Cemetery and Memorial is a World War II American military war grave cemetery, located in Nettuno, near Anzio, Italy. The cemetery, containing 7,858 American war dead, covers 77 acres (31 ha) and was dedicated in 1956. It is administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission. [1]
Anzio War Cemetery is a special and communal cemetery for the local and surrounding peoples. It contains 1,056 graves resulting from Operation Shingle in 1944 as part of World War II . Having seen the make up of the 1st Canadian Division which was sent there in 1944 it is clear from the graves that those who rest there were from the units of ...
Frank Sheeran, an American labor union official and associate of Jimmy Hoffa, served 411 days in World War II, including the Battle of Anzio. William Sidney, awarded the Victoria Cross for actions as a Major with the 5th Battalion, Grenadier Guards in the Anzio beachhead. Sidney's father-in-law, Lord Gort, also had been awarded the Victoria ...
As a result, the war rape of Italian women in Italy by French colonial troops fell under the purview of both French military and Italian civilian law instead of international humanitarian law; following Marocchinate, 207 soldiers were tried for sexual violence, of which 168 were convicted. Three of those convicted were executed.
Pages in category "World War II memorials in Italy" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Sicily–Rome American Cemetery and Memorial; T.
The cemetery contains 2,316 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 2,025 of them identified, [2] including Victoria Cross recipient, Sergeant Maurice Rogers [3] and British flying ace Flight Lieutenant Arthur Hodgkinson. [4] There is also one First World War burial which was brought from Chieti Communal Cemetery near Rome. [5]
The Sacrario dei Caduti Oltremare (War Memorial of the Fallen Overseas) is a World War II memorial located in the city of Bari, in the Apulia region of Southern Italy.The shrine, inaugurated in 1967, houses the remains of 75,098 Italian soldiers killed overseas (North Africa, East Africa and the Balkans) in both World Wars as well as in Italy's colonial wars (most of those buried in the shrine ...
The foibe massacres (Italian: massacri delle foibe; Slovene: poboji v fojbah; Croatian: masakri u fojbama), or simply the foibe, refers to mass killings and deportations both during and immediately after World War II, mainly committed by Yugoslav Partisans and OZNA in the then-Italian territories [a] of Julian March (Karst Region and Istria), Kvarner and Dalmatia, against local Italians ...