camp59survivors.wordpress.com
Vaccarezza Family—P.G. 52 Escapees Protected | Camp 59 Survivors
https://camp59survivors.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/vaccarezza-family-p-g-52-escapees-protected
Experiences of the Allied Servicemen who were Prisoners of War at Servigliano, Italy. Vaccarezza Family P.G. 52 Escapees Protected. March 24, 2015 in Gaetano and Maria Vaccarezza. Farm building on a remote property owned by the Italian couple Gaetano and Maria Vaccarezza, where five escapees from P.G. 52 were sheltered. Here is the information Frank sent:. I am trying to locate the families of several British Commonwealth soldiers who escaped during WW2 from P.G. 52 near Chiavari, Italy and hid f...You m...
camp59survivors.wordpress.com
Soldiers of the Strange Night | Camp 59 Survivors
https://camp59survivors.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/soldiers-of-the-strange-night
Experiences of the Allied Servicemen who were Prisoners of War at Servigliano, Italy. Soldiers of the Strange Night. March 8, 2015 in Robert Newton. For author Robert A. Newton, publication earlier this year of a 360-page book entitled. Soldiers of the Strange Night. Marked the culmination of many years of dedicated research. 8220;Everything in this world had stopped except war and we are all men of a new profession out in a strange night caring for each other.”. This spirit of compassion and bravery was...
camp59survivors.wordpress.com
P.G. 59 Prisoner Arthur Page | Camp 59 Survivors
https://camp59survivors.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/p-g-59-prisoner-arthur-page
Experiences of the Allied Servicemen who were Prisoners of War at Servigliano, Italy. PG 59 Prisoner Arthur Page. March 24, 2015 in Arthur Page. I am pleased to have added today a new name, British Sergeant Arthur Page, to the master Prisoner List. On this site. Information on Arthur was sent to me by researcher Janet Kinrade Dethick. 8220;When the worst of the winter ’43 44 was past, he and a fellow escaper, South African Piet van Rensburg, left for the Allied lines. They met the Allied troops...Francis...
camp59survivors.wordpress.com
A Rescue Mission Gone Awry | Camp 59 Survivors
https://camp59survivors.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/a-rescue-mission-gone-awry
Experiences of the Allied Servicemen who were Prisoners of War at Servigliano, Italy. A Rescue Mission Gone Awry. April 26, 2015 in Giovanni Nebbia. Giovanni Nebbia with the football team he organized at his Marine School (. Scuola di Avviamento Marinaro. The photo was taken in the year they won a championship. December 3, 1940. In 2005, at a ceremony in Monte Urano, Italy, to honour Ken de Souza a former POW and author of. Escape from Ascoli,. Annelisa’s speech is here translated into English:. 8220;Eli...
camp59survivors.wordpress.com
I.S.9 Captain Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello | Camp 59 Survivors
https://camp59survivors.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/i-s-9-captain-uguccione-ranieri-di-sorbello
Experiences of the Allied Servicemen who were Prisoners of War at Servigliano, Italy. IS9 Captain Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello. March 1, 2015 in MI9 and IS9. Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello. Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello. Many of the stories on this site concerning the protection of escaped POWs describe the brave actions of the. The poor farmers of central Italy. I am grateful to Uguccione’s son, Professor Ruggero Ranieri, for allowing me to share on this site the following paper about his father. To bet...
camp59survivors.wordpress.com
Camp 59 Today | Camp 59 Survivors
https://camp59survivors.wordpress.com/camp-59-today
Experiences of the Allied Servicemen who were Prisoners of War at Servigliano, Italy. These images, provided by Ian McCarthy of Associazione Casa della Memoria, show the camp as it appears today. Inside the walls (today used as a field for sports). The patched hole in the wall, though which the POWs escaped in September 1943. Two surviving buildings outside the camp walls that were used as barracks for guards and/or storage. A barbed wire-topped stone wall. Dennis Sweeney’s Rediscovered Camp Diary. Hi Ma...
camp59survivors.wordpress.com
I.S.9 Agent Spartaco Perini | Camp 59 Survivors
https://camp59survivors.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/i-s-9-agent-spartaco-perini
Experiences of the Allied Servicemen who were Prisoners of War at Servigliano, Italy. IS9 Agent Spartaco Perini. February 19, 2015 in Uncategorized. Spartaco Perini enters the Palazzo dei Capitani del Popolo in Ascoli Piceno on the day of the Allied liberation of the city, June 18, 1944. Nato in Ascoli Piceno il 23.12.1919. Spartaco Perini was born in Ascoli Piceno on December 23, 1919. Successivamente il 30 dicembre 1942 parte per il Fronte Russo. He participated in the mass retreat from Rossosh (Russia...
camp59survivors.wordpress.com
Captain L. C. Giovanni Nebbia | Camp 59 Survivors
https://camp59survivors.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/captain-l-c-giovanni-nebbia
Experiences of the Allied Servicemen who were Prisoners of War at Servigliano, Italy. Captain L. C. Giovanni Nebbia. February 17, 2015 in Giovanni Nebbia. Captain L.C. Giovanni Nebbia. Over the past several months, I have exchanged a number of e-mails with Annelisa Nebbia, whose father, Captain L.C. Giovanni Nebbia, was involved in the Adriatic coast rescue of Allied POWs during the war. Meanwhile, in the nearby town of Termoli, American Army Captain Lewis, knowing that my father was an expert on the Adr...
camp59survivors.wordpress.com
“Operazione Nebbia” | Camp 59 Survivors
https://camp59survivors.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/operazione-nebbia
Experiences of the Allied Servicemen who were Prisoners of War at Servigliano, Italy. 8220;Operazione Nebbia”. April 26, 2015 in Giovanni Nebbia. Giovanni Nebbia’s partisan identification card, issued in 1950 by the. Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d’Italia,. Or National Association of the Italian Partisans, acknowledges his involvement with the Banda Gran Sasso from September 25, 1943 to June 20, 1944. To Major R. E. ITALO POSTIGLIONE. Commander 23rd and 24th Patriot Groups. Having returned home after...
