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Rescue on Gran Sasso Foils Mussolini Twenty Years Ago
Rome report details the 12 September 1943 rescue of Benito Mussolini from a Gran Sasso hotel prison. SS Captain Otto Skorzeny led a glider assault with German troops to extract Mussolini amid rocky terrain and damaged radios. The mission, planned with Luftwaffe support, ended with Mussolini escaping aboard a plane, though the dictator would die years later in 1945.
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Benito
Rome
UPI
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Otto Skorzeny
Mussolini
Villa Sevoia
Victor Fimmanuel
Carabinieri
National Police
Via
Quintino Selvi
Ponza
Tien
Maddalena
Gran Sasso Mountain
Great Hook Mountain
Italy
Albergo -Rifugio
Gran
Sasso
Skorzany
Skorzény
Soleti
Skorzeny
General Soleil
Leutenant
Mus
Var
Solini
Gerlach
Sondrug
Duce
Ture
Skerzeny
Skorgol
Granlon Lhe
Gran Sasso
Zeny