Word: sasso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Sundry Crimson wrestlers dominated the New England A.A.U. wrestling tournament this Saturday, as Captain Peter Fuller, Varsity heavyweight, lost a disputed 2 to 1 decision in the 191-pound class to Lehigh's Georgre La Sasso at the N.C.A.A. tourney in Lehigh...
...taken from Rome to Ponza . . . to the island of Maddalena . . . to the Gran Sasso [in the Apennines 75 miles northeast of Rome] according to a plan which provided for my being handed over to the enemy...