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picked up the rifle and fired on them—but doesn't think he got anyone.Many other Americans of Italian heritage plan to return to the land of their ancestry. Rome-born Pn. Vito Florio. New York, came ashore in a duck puffing on a fancy cigar.I feel like I’m coming home/' he said. Boy I could go for nine plates of spaghetti right now.This was Pvt. Fkjno’s first visit to Italy in seven years. His father's people live near Rome.Amnng those who landed in Italy was Pfc. Eugene Masi, Dos Palos. Calif., who had the unusual distinction of being thrown out of Italy by the Black Shirts when he was 13 years old.Private Masi’s mother and father were born in Italy and he returned there to go to military school near Pisa. One day a group jof young Fascists came around to ask him for a comparison of life in the United States and Italy.*Tt is much better in the United States, said young Eugene.That statement cost him a roughing up next day. He got the first boat after that back to the States.the he air-grw sive. Ai tralian Gen. D given I to prot the Alii is on 1 in the I ter in UnitedNAZIS(CotDNIEPER LINE(Continued from Page I)lapse and the fight for the road to Warsaw and Berlin will begin. Along the forest front thatImpero, wiring, i tured a mercharThe s was de meanwh was re] have ob war fac workersThe i reported pubUcas Benito 1 low Mai daring move 11 The gov solve tfc many o: have sb Marsha! resignedMarsl
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Sicily Stars and Stripes
Palermo, Sicily, IT
Fri, Oct 01, 1943
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