Gruppo Alpini "Gen. Pietro Zaglio" di Salce – ANA Belluno Section
Help the living to honour the dead – Nardo Caprioli
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Sculptor, journalist and secret agent: Michael Noble, the British officer who brought the Corriere della Sera back to the newsstands in 1945 and opened the doors of Verona’s psychiatric hospital to art.
Duilio Pitto, a founding member of the Salce Alpini Group, recounts his escape from German captivity in Fiume in 1943 with a perfectly forged leave pass.
Where do the words sergeant and marshal come from? The etymology and history of Italian non-commissioned officer ranks, from the Middle Ages to the reforms of 2001.
At the 49th Alpini National Rally in Padua, Ezio Capello meets Dante Chichiarelli, an Alpino from Rosciolo dei Marsi, who tells him how he crossed the burning footbridge at Perati in November 1940.
Born in Campo di Mel in 1924, Angelo Isotton was called up to the 5th Mountain Artillery: his story between military service, the mutiny of 8 September 1943 and the Resistance.
In 1916 about two hundred Alpini hauled a six-tonne 149 mm gun, nicknamed “Ippopotamo”, to over 3,200 metres on the Adamello: the story of one of the most extraordinary feats of the White War.
From Luigi Barzini’s book “Al Fronte”: the battle for the hill of Santa Lucia in the upper Isonzo valley, August–September 1915, told by the war correspondent of the Corriere della Sera.
On 28 February 1940 the Arsia coal mine in Istria was the scene of Italy’s worst mining disaster, with 185 dead, including two miners from the province of Belluno.
A story almost 500 years long: from the first crossing of the Piave at Belluno in 1388 to the Ponte della Vittoria of 1926, through floods, wars and reconstructions.
The story of Angelo Schiocchet, known as the Wolf of the Tofane or “el diaol de le Tofane”, the Alpino from Vezzano di Belluno who fought at Passo Ombretta, on the Tofane and on Col di Lana in 1915-16.
