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James L. Dozier. James Lee Dozier (born April 10, 1931) is a retired United States Army officer. In December 1981, he was kidnapped by the Italian Red Brigades Marxist guerilla group. He was rescued by NOCS, an Italian special force, with assistance from the Intelligence Support Activity 's Operation Winter Harvest, after 42 days of captivity.
Prison camp for Italian military after the armistice of September 8, 1943, German propaganda photo "Italian Military Internees" (German: Italienische Militärinternierte, Italian: Internati Militari Italiani, abbreviated as IMI) was the official name given by Germany to the Italian soldiers captured, rounded up and deported in the territories of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe in ...
The number of prisoners who died during the war would be 751,000 (8.7% of the total), including 478,000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners, 122,000 Germans, 38,963 French in Germany. [15] 411,000 prisoners died in Russia (the majority of them Austro-Hungarian), [16] and more than 100,000 Italian prisoners out of 350,000 in Austria-Hungary.
Italian prisoners of war held by the Austrians, Udine 1917. The main camps where Italian prisoners were held were at Mauthausen, Sigmundsherberg and Theresienstadt (Bohemia) in Austria-Hungary and Celle (Hanover) and Rastatt (Baden) in Germany. [4]: 126–7. Prisoners (except officers) were made to work, but while labour was compulsory ...
Humbert Roque Versace. Captain Humbert Roque "Rocky" Versace (July 2, 1937 – September 26, 1965) was a United States Army officer of Puerto Rican – Italian descent who was posthumously awarded the United States' highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor —for his heroic actions while a prisoner of war (POW) during the Vietnam War.
Survival handbook of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) from 1944. Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) is a training concept originally developed by the United Kingdom during World War II. It is best known by its military acronym and prepares a range of Western forces to survive when evading or being captured.
Duwall quickly escaped captivity, organizing the defence of Breslau, where he died from liver failure in April 1634. [1] Former Imperial general Johann Philipp Kratz von Scharffenstein was captured at the Battle of Nördlingen and taken to Vienna, where he managed to escape and fled to Silesia. He was seized again and brought back to Vienna ...
The Italian participation on the Eastern Front represented the military intervention of the Kingdom of Italy in the Operation Barbarossa, launched by Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union in 1941. The commitment to actively take part in the German offensive was decided by Benito Mussolini a few months before the beginning of the operation, when ...