(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 6 - World War II partisan fighter Aldo Tortorella, known as Alessio, has died, the national president of Italian partisans association ANPI Gianfranco Pagliarulo said on Thursday.

Carlson was killed on April 30, 1945, while fighting alongside Italian partisans to help expel occupying German forces. ... the final battle fought on Italian soil during World War II.

He was recruited by the partisans and understood that he was "supposed to be something of a dark-horse candidate in a political stalemate," he wrote in his memoir. "The only thing wrong with their ...

They included the gracefully aging 102-year-old partisan, as World War II freedom fighters are known in Italy, who met “Mario” in 1944, when they helped liberate Rome from the Nazi occupiers ...

ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni marked the anniversary Friday of one of the worst World War II-era massacres in German-occupied Italy, but the main association of partisans who fought ...

But when the family of World War II gunner Carl Carrigan approached Simon to retrace ... The boys from Moree joined a group of 100 POWs and were led into the mountains by Italian partisans — members ...

Italy today celebrates the 80th anniversary of its liberation. After two-and-a-half years, Italian partisans got rid of both the Nazi German former ally that had occupied half the country and ...