martedì 10 luglio 2012

REPORT OF VINCENT A. ABRIGNANI, MAJOR, INFANTRY COMMADING

HEADQUARTERS
FIFTH ARMY DETACHMENT
2677 Regt. OSS (Prov)
APO 512   U.S. Army

                                                                                25th July 1945 

Subject: XI Zone Partisans (Lucca Area)

The following report is based on personal knowledge of XI Zone Partisans
under the command of Manrico Duccezki, battle name of Pippo, and reports
from the OSS IV Corp Detachment, 2677 Regt. commanded by major Rossetti
a sub=detachment of the OSS Fifth Army Detachment which was commanded by
the undersigned.

Contact with the Xl Zone Partisans was gained in February 1944 when an
OSS Mission parachuted into the mountains of Tre Potenze prior to the
arrival of any Allied troops in the Lucca Area.


        

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