A World War Two Italian partisan whose nom de guerre was Tempesta (Storm) has died at the age of 99, the Bologna edition of the Resto del Carlino newspaper reported Friday. Franco Guazzaloca was a ...

PONTI SUL MINCIO, Italy — Paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade recently stood shoulder to shoulder with Italian officials and local residents to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the ...

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 ...

The brother and sister who took part in the struggle to free Italy from fascism in WW2. Show more In September 1943, Partisan fighters in Italy began organising in large numbers to help the Allies ...

WW2 People's War Homepage Archive List Timeline About This Site: ... to africa then to greece. he survived. when he came back to Italy, he joined the partisan forces, going on mountains ...

To learn more about World War II in North Africa and Italy, visit the "Company of Heroes" Briefing Room. -- Blake Stilwell can be reached at [email protected] . He can also be found on ...