Word: badoglio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Point, more recently Chief of Staff of U.S. forces in Europe. Taylor's most spectacular wartime exploit came in 1943 when-he slipped through the German lines wearing his U.S. uniform, and under the Nazis' noses made his way to Rome for armistice talks with Premier Pietro Badoglio...
...summer of 1943, 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...
...decade ago he began to learn. From Marshal Badoglio's observation post on a green African hillside, he watched Fascist bombers and blackshirts cut the Negus' forces to pieces. The Ethiopians' valor in the murderous battle of Amba Aradam made no immediate impression on his political consciousness. He came out of the campaign with an Italian War Cross, and no idea that he had witnessed a rehearsal for World War II. "The right or the wrong of it did not interest me greatly," he confesses...
Charging a British deal with the Badoglio government to dominate Italian-railroads for nine years after the conclusion of peace, Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, decried "foreign interference in Italy," and urged, "she must be allowed to rebuild herself under her own free government...
Between such ventures Wild Bill sandwiched jaunts abroad. As an observer in Ethiopia he had a tent next door to Marshal Badoglio's. In Spain he watched the Axis rehearse its new techniques...