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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 ...
Edwsrd Burrows estimates that the British captured over 30,000 Americans, and that about 17,500 died in captivity, compared to 6,800 who died in battle. [32] During the war, at least 16 hulks, including the infamous HMS Jersey , were used in the waters of Wallabout Bay off the shores of Brooklyn, New York, as a place of incarceration.
November 1863 – Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and six of his officers escaped from the Ohio Penitentiary. February 9 and 10, 1864 – Libby Prison escape. More than 100 Union prisoners broke out of Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia. Fifty-nine of them reached freedom, forty-eight were recaptured, and two drowned.
The agreement also called for the release of nearly 600 American prisoners of war (POWs) held by North Vietnam and its allies within 60 days of the withdrawal of U.S. troops. [1] The deal would come to be known as Operation Homecoming and was divided into three phases.
On Aug. 14, 1944, tensions reached a boiling point at Fort Lawton and the Black soldiers attacked the Italian POWs. Arrighi told his grandson that he hid in a patch of stinging nettles to escape ...
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.
The Expedition of the Thousand (Italian: Spedizione dei Mille) was an event of the unification of Italy that took place in 1860. A corps of volunteers led by Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed from Quarto al Mare near Genoa and landed in Marsala, Sicily, in order to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, ruled by the Spanish House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. [3]