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Italy's last World War I veteran Delfino Borroni passes away aged 110 theaustralian.news.com.au :: 2008-10-27 :: Italy
Delfino Borroni, the last surviving Italian veteran of the First World War, has passed away in a rest home aged 110. Born August 23, 1898 in Turago Bordone, a small village in Italy, Borroni saw action on the Italian-Austrian front as a soldier in the light infantry Bersaglieri corps. His passing comes after the deaths of two other Italian World War One veterans, Francesco Domenico Chiarello and Lazarre Ponticelli.
The White War by Mark Thompson - The First World War Italian front thefirstpost.co.uk :: 2008-09-28 :: Minor groups and Areas
Poorly equipped Italian troops struggled through the snows of the southern Alps into the Austrian guns as if they were attempting mass suicide. "In gestures of mercy unique to this front" Austrian machine-gunners ceased fire, and adviced the Italians to go back. But in General Luigi Cadorna, Italy had a commander who was not moved by slaughter. He restored the Roman custom of randomly killing men from units "deemed to have shown a lack of pluck and dash". Like Stalin, he had machine guns behind his own lines to encourage the stragglers. Italy entered the First World War as it did the Second: It waited to see which side seemd to win and joined it to share the spoils.
Jason Petroelje builds First World War Macchi M.5 Italian fighter in home workshop mlive.com :: 2008-09-05 :: WW1 Aircrafts: Vintage Warbirds
When Jason Petroelje first glanced the plans for the Italian WW1 fighter plane he wanted to reproduce, this is what he saw: "Idrovolante a scafo e galleggiantini laterali, biplano..." Petroelje is Frisian, not Italian. And although he spent a couple of years in post-WWII Italy serving with the American Army, he was not an expert at the language. But 10 years and 5,000 hours later his dream-come-true was launched from the shores of Muskegon County's Little Black Lake and took to the skies for a maiden flight. The Macchi M.5 Italian fighter is mostly authentic, but without machine guns.
Italian WWI veteran Francesco Domenico Chiarello dead at 109 abc.net.au :: 2008-07-02 :: Last Living Veterans
One of the last veterans of the First World War, Italian Francesco Domenico Chiarello, has died aged 109. He died in the Calabria region of southern Italy where he was born on November 5, 1898. He joined the Italian army in 1918 as a member of the 19th infantry regiment from Cosenza. He was posted to the northern front at Trento where he took part in the final battle of Vittorio Veneto. The Italian military in 1968 named a medal after that battle - The medal was given to all those who fought for at least 6 months in WW1. Italy now has only one living veteran of the Great War, Delfino Borroni, 109.
Diary of First World War veteran Settimio Damiani translated into book southtownstar :: 2008-05-07 :: Documents, diaries, extracts
30 years after his death, and almost a century after the Great War, the translation into English of the diary of a WWI Italian soldier has both fascinated and terrified his daughter. "I never knew my father was a hero," said Lee Malizia, daughter of the late Settimio Damiani. The diary records the story of how Damiani fought on the Italian front lines against Austro-Hungarian and German forces in the Battle of Caporetto, where over 10,000 Italians perished and hundreds of thousands were taken POWs. He traded crackers for a pen so he could keep writing, even though he was on starving rations.
Italian World War I veteran Justin Tuveri dead at 109 abcnews.com :: 2007-10-12 :: Last Living Veterans
Justin Tuveri, who fought for Italy during WW1 and was one of the few remaining European veterans of the Great War, has died at 109. Tuveri remained active despite his age, driving until age 98. Although he became a French citizen in 1940, he did not figure on the French Defense Ministry's list of surviving vets from the 1914-1918 war because he had fought for Italy. Tuveri was a member of the Sassari Brigade, a Sardinian infantry unit nicknamed the "Dimonios" ("Demons"). The brigade fought Austro-Hungarian and German forces in the heights of Italy. Tuveri's military service was cut short when he was shot twice in the back after 4 months.