Militrperson (Regia Marina) - Carlo Pellion Di Persano, Junio Valerio Borghese, Francesco Mimbelli, Giuseppe Cigala Fulgosi (English, German, Paperback)

Kapitel: Carlo Pellion Di Persano, Junio Valerio Borghese, Francesco Mimbelli, Giuseppe Cigala Fulgosi, Luigi Amadeo Von Savoyen, Carlo Bergamini, Luigi Faggioni, Vittorio Cuniberti, Carlo Margottini, Emilio Fa Di Bruno, Paolo Thaon Di Revel, Salvatore Todaro, Adriano Foscari, Ener Bettica, Enrico Toti, Inigo Campioni, Luigi Durand de La Penne, Alfredo Cappellini, Carlo Fecia Di Cossato, Raffaele de Courten, Nazario Sauro, Umberto Cagni, Gianfranco Gazzana-Priaroggia, Primo Longobardo, Enrico Millo, Domenico Chiodo, Salvatore Pelosi, Angelo Iachino, Simone Pacoret de Saint Bon, Augusto Riboty, Luigi Rizzo, Benedetto Brin, Giuliano Prini, Arturo Riccardi, Domenico Cavagnari, Costantino Borsini, Alberto Da Zara. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Luigi Durand de la Penne (February 11, 1914 - January 17, 1992) was an Italian naval diver in Decima MAS during World War II. de la Penne was born in Genoa, where he also died. On the 22nd of August, 1940, in the Gulf of Bomba, an Italian submarine Iride, being a "human torpedo" carrier, was sunk by a torpedo released by a British Fairey "Swordfish" plane. The air attack happened during an exercise, in shallow water, when four "human torpedo" squads were around, including Teseo Tesei and Luigi Durand de la Penne. The divers were able to make an immediate rescue action. Of the 12 "Iride" crewmen who survived, two died during an unsuccessful attempt to surface, nine were retrieved alive (two of them died soon, due to wounds), and one was too shocked to leave the sunken submarine. De la Penne tried to persuade him to surface, and even gave him his own aqualung, but the seaman refused surfacing and died. HMS ValiantAs part of a team of divers he took part in the human torpedo attacks on British vessels in the Mediterranean. In December 1941, he was one of a team of six (Emilio Bianchi, his second; Antonio Marceglia with Spartaco Schergat; Vincenzo Martellotta with Mario Marino) tha...http://booksllc.net/?l=de