Kindly provided by Anna Chiappa Moscardini The poetry of the buggy One evening I was in the square all’appaltino rimiravo that the sky is serene and beautiful; he heard a noise that seemed fate, was the gig of Rinaldi In them stood in the Piazza San Rocchino; all the people ran […]
Monthly archives: December 2015
Lieutenant John R Fox Medal of Honor Recipient for his action in Sommocolonia At dawn, the day after Christmas, 1944, highly trained Axis troops of the Fourth Hoch Mountain and the Alpine Mittenwald Battalions attacked Sommocolonia. The attackers numbered three times that of the approximately 75 African American soldiers of the 366th […]
John Robert Fox
Celebration of the 71th anniversary of the Battle of Sommocolonia (December 26, 1944 – DECEMBER 26 2015). At 10.30 there will be a Mass for the souls of all the dead of the battle, civil, and military partisans. Following deposition of wreaths at the war memorial in Church Square and […]