THE BOOK - With the honorable surrender to the Americans by 88 nd Division in the sports field Lanificio Rossi di Schio ceased to exist on the Tenth Battalion FULMINE - X Mas. Was 30 April 1945: closing of a story thienese Riccardo Maculan and Maurizio Ferrara Gamberini retrace the recent volume on the historical photographic department published. The Battalion FULMINE, made in La Spezia in the spring of 1944, worked in the province of Turin and Cuneo, near Treviso, in meat, Gorizia and the end of the conflict, including in the Vicentino, a period when the volume devotes several pages. He often clashed with the supporters: the most notorious incident of war and the bloody battle of Tarnova of the Wild, in which the department sacrificed much of the actual Tito's partisans to prevent the invasion of Gorizia. What Maculan and Gamberini present it is a story viewed from the losers. Are primarily veterans to tell, with their memories or through diaries, memoirs and documents preserved by the families: the materials that the authors have collected over a twenty-year wandering around Italy. The remarkable artwork: over 150 photographs, many of which are new, are proposed in the volume in large format with the history and structure of the department, staffing and the list of the fallen, to a description of armaments.
FROM TEXT - "With the influx of the first volunteers in late March and early April 1944 in La Spezia, in the barracks San Bartolomeo, starts to build the FULMINE Battalion. Medicals are carried out to verify and attitudinal ' fitness of recruits to military training.
"At least up to April 28, battalion commander Colonel Carallo appears to be the same, which on that date shall be replaced by Sergio Scordia TV, from the Battalion Barbarigo. Before the Armistice had been a paratrooper regiment in the X-sapper Arditi. To think a sailor good luck: hope to soon be able to follow the front of Neptune.
"For ten days, the Lightning had its first organic structure, organized into a headquarters company and two rifle companies, although the total number of volunteers who make up no more than 200 units. The Company is led by TCG Baptist Commando God and the TC Tristano Savelli, the latter also assumes the post of adjutant. I ° The Company has to master the TC Carmelo Conti and Attila the 2nd Company GM Giovanni Di Stefano. "
THE WORK OF CONTENTS - INTRODUCTION - THE ORIGINS OF THE BATTALION (For the honor after September 8 - Born the FULMINE - Beginning of training) - In the mountains of Piedmont (outside Turin - The first clashes with the partisans - Arriving Volunteers of France - The operations in the valley of the Ogre: Step one - Ogre's operations in the valley: the second phase - afforestation pace of Crocetta - patrols, exchange of prisoners, changes at the summit - The recapture of Dawn) - FRA Veneto and Friuli (the transfer in the Treviso - The steps behind the flesh - Italian Partisans, Tito, Cossacks - The return to Conegliano) - IN DEFENSE OF EASTERN BORDER (The offensive against IX Korpus - fights and Slapp Tribussa: Part One - The fighting of Slapp and Tribussa: second part - the official report on the transaction) - TARNOVO of the Selva (the calm before the storm - The Battle of Tarnova: the forces at work - Tarnovo Battle: l ' Assault - The official record - a return to Gorizia) - still in Conegliano (honors Commander Borghese - The funeral of the fallen Tarnovo) - stationed in VICENTINO (wagon, and Chiuppano Caltrano - The attack on Sergeant Tommasi - The delivery of the medals - the order of collection) - DAILY UNCERTAINTY (started talks - The board of officers - The fate of the Volunteers of France - An agreement that divides) - Lightning NO SPRING (He begins the final march -- Negotiations in Schio - Blocked in Val Leogra - The incident commander Franks - The honor of arms - Terminal cell in the barracks) - to the prison (For travel to Vicenza - Extracts from the diary: The Last Days of FULMINE - In the field of Colt) - The Stages of the Marine Infantry (The hierarchy among the officers - General summary of degrees and related Army) - STAFF OF FULMINE BATTALION (Company Command - 1st Company - 2nd Company - 3rd Company (first period) - 3rd Company Volunteers of France - 4th Company - other effects - Fallen and missing) - THE DIFFERENCE - DOCUMENTS - SOURCES OF OPERA - Documentation - Bibliography
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FROM TEXT - "With the influx of the first volunteers in late March and early April 1944 in La Spezia, in the barracks San Bartolomeo, starts to build the FULMINE Battalion. Medicals are carried out to verify and attitudinal ' fitness of recruits to military training.
"At least up to April 28, battalion commander Colonel Carallo appears to be the same, which on that date shall be replaced by Sergio Scordia TV, from the Battalion Barbarigo. Before the Armistice had been a paratrooper regiment in the X-sapper Arditi. To think a sailor good luck: hope to soon be able to follow the front of Neptune.
"For ten days, the Lightning had its first organic structure, organized into a headquarters company and two rifle companies, although the total number of volunteers who make up no more than 200 units. The Company is led by TCG Baptist Commando God and the TC Tristano Savelli, the latter also assumes the post of adjutant. I ° The Company has to master the TC Carmelo Conti and Attila the 2nd Company GM Giovanni Di Stefano. "
THE WORK OF CONTENTS - INTRODUCTION - THE ORIGINS OF THE BATTALION (For the honor after September 8 - Born the FULMINE - Beginning of training) - In the mountains of Piedmont (outside Turin - The first clashes with the partisans - Arriving Volunteers of France - The operations in the valley of the Ogre: Step one - Ogre's operations in the valley: the second phase - afforestation pace of Crocetta - patrols, exchange of prisoners, changes at the summit - The recapture of Dawn) - FRA Veneto and Friuli (the transfer in the Treviso - The steps behind the flesh - Italian Partisans, Tito, Cossacks - The return to Conegliano) - IN DEFENSE OF EASTERN BORDER (The offensive against IX Korpus - fights and Slapp Tribussa: Part One - The fighting of Slapp and Tribussa: second part - the official report on the transaction) - TARNOVO of the Selva (the calm before the storm - The Battle of Tarnova: the forces at work - Tarnovo Battle: l ' Assault - The official record - a return to Gorizia) - still in Conegliano (honors Commander Borghese - The funeral of the fallen Tarnovo) - stationed in VICENTINO (wagon, and Chiuppano Caltrano - The attack on Sergeant Tommasi - The delivery of the medals - the order of collection) - DAILY UNCERTAINTY (started talks - The board of officers - The fate of the Volunteers of France - An agreement that divides) - Lightning NO SPRING (He begins the final march -- Negotiations in Schio - Blocked in Val Leogra - The incident commander Franks - The honor of arms - Terminal cell in the barracks) - to the prison (For travel to Vicenza - Extracts from the diary: The Last Days of FULMINE - In the field of Colt) - The Stages of the Marine Infantry (The hierarchy among the officers - General summary of degrees and related Army) - STAFF OF FULMINE BATTALION (Company Command - 1st Company - 2nd Company - 3rd Company (first period) - 3rd Company Volunteers of France - 4th Company - other effects - Fallen and missing) - THE DIFFERENCE - DOCUMENTS - SOURCES OF OPERA - Documentation - Bibliography
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