Can someone give me a list of italian war heroes?
Nazario Sauro Luigi Rizzo Luigi Durand De La Penne Carlo Fecia Di Cossato Junio Valerio Borghese Teseo Tesei Francesco Mimbelli Salvatore Pelosi all Italian Naval Heros of WW1/WW2 Heres the story of Luigi Durand De la Penne “An extraordinary example of courage and geniality” with these words Winston Churchill described an action of an enemy. This man and his comrades, Bianchi, Martellotta, Marino, Marceglia, Schergat, accomplished one of the most effective naval victories of the WW2 without killing anyone. During November 1941 the British Mediterranean Fleet was in a critical situation: only battleships Valiant and Queen Elizabeth, based at Alexandria, were available. The Italian Navy studied carefully how to take advantage of that: if these two battleships would have been destroyed all the convoys to Lybia could sail safely with an extremely positive effect on the African war. The mission to destroy the British battleship was relied on X Flottiglia Mas. On December 18, submarine Scirè
