Word: abruzzo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after Mussolini had become the prisoner of Italy's Badoglio Government, it was Skorzeny whom Hitler personally assigned to rescue the Duce. After weeks of dime-thriller spy work he located Mussolini in an inaccessible hotel on the 9,560-ft. peak of the Gran Sasso in the Abruzzo Mountains northeast of Rome. He led an assault which reached the hotel by crash-landing gliders against the mountainside. Skorzeny reported: "Duce, the Führer has sent me as a token of his loyal friendship." They flew out together in a tiny plane which had to take...
Judge Matthew T. Abruzzo, before whom they were arraigned, ordered them held for trial on March 6. All 17 had been held in lieu of bonds ranging from $10,000 to $50,000. After pleas had been entered for each, the balls were reduced to sums ranging from...